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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The deceased did everything wrong that one could do in this situation plus he had coke & pot in his system and he committed a felony hit& run.

Doesn't appear that the police did anything wrong here.[/quote]

You may think you are helping the police HH defending unjustified use of lethal force but you are contributing to deep distrust of the police by POC. Police need more training to be able to judge when lethal force is justified and build community support and relations. [/quote]
A taser is not considered lethal force. Do you even know what happened? [/quote]

The guy who was clearly distressed, unarmed and on the ground was tasered 4 times in 30 seconds.

You do know that tasers are linked to hundreds of police induced deaths? Tasers are regarded as less lethal restraining device not non lethal device.

They should have called the LAPD mental health unit to deal with him humanely

Examining fatal and nonfatal
incidents involving the TASER
Identifying predictors of suspect death reported in the media
Michael d. White
Justin ready
Arizona State University
research summary

According to TASER International, nearly 10,000 police departments in the United States have deployed the TASER as a less lethal force alternative in some capacity. Despite the TASER’s increasing popularity, serious questions have been raised about the device’s physi- ological side effects; in particular, Amnesty International has reported that more than 300 people have died after being subjected to the TASER. Although a growing body of research has examined the physiological effects of the TASER on animals and healthy human vol- unteers in laboratory settings, there has been virtually no empirical analysis of “real-world” fatal and nonfatal TASER cases simultaneously. This article examines all media reports of TASER incidents from 2002 to 2006 through a comprehensive review of LexisNexis and New York Times archives. We compare TASER incidents in which a fatality occurred to TASER incidents in which a fatality did not occur and then employ multivariate analyses to identify the incident and suspect characteristics that are predictive of articles describing TASER-proximate deaths.

Policy implications
Several suspect factors were significantly associated with the reporting of a fatal TASER incident, including drug use (but not alcohol), mental illness, and continued resistance. Multiple deployments of the TASER against a suspect was also associated with the likelihood of the article describing a fatality—especially if the suspect was emotionally disturbed— which raises the possibility that the risk of multiple shocks might not be uniform for all suspects. More research is needed to explore the relationship between mental illness, drug use (illicit or therapeutic), continued resistance, and increased risk of death. In the mean- time, police departments should develop specific policies and training governing the use[/quote]

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