The use of traditional tasers by law enforcement is fascinating.
A Polish immigrant was tased by Canadian police while in handcuffs, and died as a result. [1]
When investigators asked for the studies and data about how tasers were proven safe for use on humans, the answer was “what?”.
Turns out nobody tested, or certified or in any way figured out of tasers are safe on humans. Companies just started making them and selling them to police forces en mass.
The original argument was they were safer than a firearm. IMO the problem is they don’t then use the same standard for use. Only to save a life etc, full investigation every time.
Having seen video of police tazing people in the head and neck... I would posit that they are intending to make the tazer as dangerous as possible through misuse.
The longer this criminal terror gang continues to operate with impunity, the more we need to be documenting individuals who need to face justice for our society to heal when we eventually get our Nuremberg moment. In this case, whomever is signing off on this deliberately malevolent escalation of force, including up their autocratic chain of command, plus whomever is profiting from it (the only real goal here beyond performative cruelty). No clemency, no amnesty, no "just following orders", no slinking back into the shadows holding on to their "lost cause". Criminal responsibility, period.
It's cute that you seem to think anyone will ever be held accountable ever again. Anyone who's studied history knows what direction this is going to go and the chances of their being a Nuremburg Trail II are very, very slim.
Unless you have a practical nuts-and-bolts solution for dealing with the money and connections of orgs such as the Heritage Foundation and the various Tech Oligarchs pushing fascism (e.g. Palintir) your 'resistance' will mean fuck-all, sorry.
The ballot box doesn't matter and the bullet box is irrelevant in the face of ICE and the militarizing of the police force.
There's no getting off this train, whether you surrender or fight changes nothing.
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[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 5.0 ms ] threadA Polish immigrant was tased by Canadian police while in handcuffs, and died as a result. [1]
When investigators asked for the studies and data about how tasers were proven safe for use on humans, the answer was “what?”.
Turns out nobody tested, or certified or in any way figured out of tasers are safe on humans. Companies just started making them and selling them to police forces en mass.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Robert_Dzieka%C5%84...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excited_delirium
As we all know, people get so excited when they interact with the police that sometimes it's just too much and they die. It just happens. Very normal.
The ballot box doesn't matter and the bullet box is irrelevant in the face of ICE and the militarizing of the police force.
There's no getting off this train, whether you surrender or fight changes nothing.
If it goes that far, I imagine more a guns-and-bullets solution pushing on one side with a larger, more peaceful resistance pushing from the other.
> bullet box is irrelevant in the face of ICE and the militarizing of the police force.
Only if you view it as an all-out war, which it would never be. Threat being enough works both ways.
We should ask Germany to let us hold the trials in Nuremberg.