Reply #31: You mean they can't use them on upset 6-year-olds in school,

[tblue37]

or on handcuffed 9-year-old girls in the back of the police car, or on 75-year-old women who are upset when they can't find out what happened to their missing friend in a nursing home, or on people in wheelchairs, or on prisoners strapped down in hospital beds, or on unarmed leggless men, or on 14-year-old girls for skipping school, or on customers who forget to pick up their credit cards off the counter in Best Buy when they answer their cell phones, or deaf, partially blind 71-year-old ladies with glass eyes who don't respond to orders barked at them? (In the last case, they also roughed up her 94-year-old mother when she brought out a Tupperware bowl of water to wash the glass eye that popped out into the street when they went for her daughter. The cops said they were afraid the 94-year-old might use the bowl of water as a weapon!)

I collect these news articles, BTW, and these are all real-life situations where people were Tased for no good reason. I have more.

As in the case of the 94-year-old with a Tupperware bowl full of water that the cops thought might be used as a weapon, I am guessing that the police officers will still find a way to justify Tasing anyone they want to, since they find a way to consider pretty much anyone dangerous.

(And some people on DU will still find a reason to justify the use of the Taser, no matter what the situation.)