AlterNet -by Tana GanevaAnother casualty of the drug war.
On May 16th, Forth Worth police entered the home of Jarmaine Darden, 34, in search of cocaine. The raid, which does not appear to have uncovered any cocaine, ended with the 34-year-old father dead after police tased him multiple times.
Family members told CBS 11 that the 350-pound man, who’d been asleep on the couch when police came in, couldn’t drop to the ground on his stomach as officers commanded because he suffered from asthma.
“They physically pulled him off the couch because, like I said, he was asleep. They pulled him off the couch and they tried to put him on his stomach. He can’t breathe on his stomach. He don’t even lie on the bed on his stomach,” said Donna Randle, the mother of victim Jarmaine Darden, 34.
According to what witnesses told CBS 11, Darden stopped breathing and died after police tased him the second time. An investigation into the incident is underway.
Tasers are supposed to save lives by allowing police to de-escalate dangerous situations without using their guns. But critics say they are over-used and can prove deadly, most often by causing cardiac arrhythmia and cardiac arrest, including in otherwise healthy individuals. Hundreds of incidents of death or injury have been reported, leading to multiple lawsuits against police departments and Taser International, a manufacturer of the weapon.
Ironically, police officers have sued the company in the past for taser injuries suffered during training sessions.
http://www.alternet.org/texas-police-tase-overweight-asthmatic-death-drug-raid-uncovers-no-drugs
And you know what will happen to these jack booted thugs that did this,Not one thing that,s what,maybe a promotion! This is going on all over the country now and is being under reported if any thing.Welcome to the police state and its only going to get worse till the people are willing to do something about it!
Yep. Welcome to Amerika!
Wow. Tasering someone multiple times for no reason. Sounds like the Round Rock, TX police department. And he is/was basically the same age as me. Imagine that.
“Hundreds of incidents of death or injury have been reported, leading to multiple lawsuits against police departments and Taser International, a manufacturer of the weapon.
Ironically, police officers have sued the company in the past for taser injuries suffered during training sessions. ”
Wow. The intelligence of our police department just astounds me. If you are finding out that you are killing people with your tasers instead of stunning them and then you go and sue the company because of it, THEN WHY THE F**K ARE STILL USING THEM ON PEOPLE!!!!!!!!?????? DUH!!!!!
UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Cheaper than bullets?
By design. Tasers are safe and don’t kill people (kind of how GMOs are safe and RoundUp is safe and Rapiscan is safe).
Therefore, when tasers do kill people, it is an accident or malfunction of the equipment, not an error in misjudgment of the operator. No fault. You don’t get that same neat and tidy excuse when you are using bullets. (another story entirely…)
Also, for the cognitive dissonance effect that any form of totalitarian absurdity instills. All by design.