Is tasering torture?

[queequeger]

that second video your posted was FUCKED UP, rex. That's precisely when not to use a taser... when the 120 lb woman is on the ground already...

Get out of the car or I'm going to tase you!? Fuck that. I hope that cop lost his job.

[ZenGum]

New Scientist has a discussion page about what you can do to lessen the effect of tasers.

Not much, it seems, although a thick, very conductive jacket might do the trick. And you can, it seems, build up a resistance to it. Being on PCP helps.

But folks point out that if you do thwart the taser, the next step for the cop is the 9mm.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by queequeger

that second video your posted was FUCKED UP, rex...

Get out of the car or I'm going to tase you!? Fuck that. I hope that cop lost his job.

Nope, again, seems reasonable to me. She could have been on the phone to anyone. Her licence is suspended, she has a broken tail-light, her windscreen is cracked and she was speeding. She is now not co-operating with a reasonable request to get off the phone and step out of the car. She could have been alerting someone nearby to come by and shoot. She could have had a gun in the car herself, or her passenger (I think I heard her talking to one) could have.

She wasn't tased until she didn't respond to reasonable requests and was warned at least three times that she would be tased. Sorry but you know when your licence has been suspended, even if I accept some people don't realise they've been speeding. She's already a criminal, the police could not know what to expect.

I would not want to see this scene in England where car drivers do not routinely carry guns, or cannot easily phone people who do. But in the US I think it's a viable way to save wounding and death for the police.

The 1st video was fucked up, yes. But I suspect it was heavily cropped.