Question about tasers...

[jberryhill]

I've never handled one, so I have no clue on their operation other than there is an HV induction circuit attached by long thin wires to two barbs that shoot out.

After a taser is fired, how do you get the wires and barbs back into the taser?

Are they expendable parts, or do you re-load them?

[blueridge3210]

2. Expendable cartridge; you reload after each shot.

You can remove the cartridge on the X26 and "drive stun" by direct contact as long a the battery lasts. If you discharge the cartridge it shoots out "taggets" as evidence the device was used.

[jberryhill]

5. What is the object being dragged along the ground here:

First, close your eyes and listen to the audio at around the 7 second mark:

Then, as the victim runs, watch along the ground behind the victim.

There is a small black object on the dirt path that darts off of the dirt path, and then bobbles along the grass behind him as if it is attached by a wire.

What is that thing?

[blueridge3210]

7. Cannot tell for sure.

If the device was discharged and only one probe connected the circuit would not complete and no charge would be delivered. It's possible during the struggle the cartridge was released and trailed behind Scott (wires can be 21' long). Not a justifiable shooting at all.

[jberryhill]

9. Is that clicking sound a taser?

The person with the camera walks on what sound like dry leaves twice, but in between there is a clicking sound.

Sounds sort of like a cicada, but it is too early in the year for cicadas.

No, the shooting is not justified. I just saw that thing scooting along the ground and wondered what it was.

[blueridge3210]

10. Yes. I didn't hear the clicking.

The Taser (a brand name, like Band-Aid adhesive strips) makes a clicking or popping noise as it is discharging. Great tool if used properly.

[jberryhill]

11. Maybe I'm not hearing it right

It's before the camera is pointing at the confrontation, as the person holding the camera is walking over.

There is some sort of clicking sound, or maybe I'm nuts, between two sounds of leaves rustling as the person crosses from grass, to the sidewalk, to the grass.

If you watch with your eyes closed, and just listen, you hear more - including the sound of sirens approaching.

I have never heard a taser in operation, but the clicking sounds similar to other videos of tasers.

[sharp_stick]

8. I think he was tased

and then struggled with the cop.

He breaks free, it looks like he knocks the Taser behind the cop (maybe knocking the cartridge out of the Taser) and runs as the cop draws his gun to shoot him. I think the dragged object is the cartridge part of the taser, the wires are probably still stuck in his clothes or skin.

[PoliticAverse]

3. They're part of a one-time-use cartridge.

See: http://store.taser.com/cartridges-c69.aspx

[leveymg]

4. Reloadable one-time use. Here's an illustration of the components and how it works

[jberryhill]

6. What would you guess to be the thing dragging along the ground in the video I posted above?