Defending Tasers
Okay. I'm not a REAL lawyer (or REAL anything, come to think of it...) but if I was, I'd be telling everybody to shut the fuck up about Tasers and training and using Tasers after training and focus on the fact that Tasers ARE NOT NON-LETHAL WEAPONS!!!!
I mean, why the living hell are the New Conservative Government of Canada and the RCMP still defending the damn things instead of the thugs, er, officers who used them to kill AN INNOCENT MAN!!!
Good Gawd in Heaven. An RCMP officer is actually suing over injuries he sustained during a Taser training exercise, ferchrissakes. Shouldn't that be the line of defence that everybody is taking here? I mean what's going on? Is Taser International a subsidiary of Haliburton or something? Is the Devil the CEO?
What gives?!
Yeah, yeah - we know the RCMP is fucked up. We know police cannot be trusted. Saskatchewan police drove a native man out into the middle of nowhere on a freezing cold winter night and left him there to die. We know these things about police. We know the RCMP lied already at least once in this current case of Taser use because we have a video of the actual.. arrest? The officers weren't acting in self-defence, there'd been no attack to justify the use of enough force to kill the... suspect? They lied. They clearly used their Tasers because they had them on hand to use.
So really, their only defence here is that they were led to believe that Tasers are non-lethal weapons that can be safely used to subdue an agitated suspect. Otherwise, they look so screamingly guilty of... well... let's just say I don't understand the line of defence so far.
