"It was like touching an electric fence they use to keep cattle in, but instead of just where the initial shock goes in, the electricity goes through your entire body. It feels like every nerve cell is on fire," said Mark England, a 14 year military veteran Tasered at a Las Vagas airport by police on his return to Iraq as a soldier. Unfortunate for the war effort. He is suing the LV Police Dept.
It only gets better:
In other cases, authorities defended the Tasering of an autistic California teenager who had been seen running in traffic, while in Ohio, a woman was Tasered while struggling in a police car after she was handcuffed.
There is no better way to rescue a disabled person that to shock them into instant paralysis and then simply mop them up. Who is going to listen to an autistic person complain? This kind of thinking is ridiculous - how can the Police be expected to use this magic weapon that allows people to be hurded like cattle - "properly"? How can they not develop an ambivalent attitude to their use now that they are not having to shoot innocents when they make a mistake?
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