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Report: The truth about taser
safety
Nick Langewis and Mike Aivaz
Raw
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Friday February 1, 2008
The following CBC documentary highlights the growing
number of unnecessary uses of the taser, which one operates by
shooting electrified metal barbs into a human target, instantly
disrupting his or her central nervous system with 50,000 volts
of electricity.
Rick Smith, CEO and co-founder of Arizona's Taser International,
says his original inspiration for what would later become the
"non-lethal" taser came from the 1993 death of two friends
to shots fired during a traffic stop.
Tasers are widely touted by law enforcement as devices that officers
of the law can use to defend themselves, and/or "gain compliance,"
without resorting to guns, chemical means or physical activity.
Over 300 people in North America have died after being "tased."
Blame for taser-related deaths is largely put on drug use or a
word-parsing phenomenon called "excited delirium," which
research suggests could be described as an extended disruption
of heart rhythm following the shock, especially depending on where
the current enters the body.
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Taser International has funded numerous studies of its own, which
it touts at conferences and on its website. Taser has also exhibited
a litigious nature, against medical examiners in particular, when
it product is found to be a contributor to, or outright cause
of, a person's death.
The following video is from CBC's The National, broadcast on
January 30, 2007
Part 1
Part 2
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