Taser used in Tancredo protest was just a "communications tool," says UNC campus security

[zazen]

Yes, like guns, knives, and bombs, they certainly communicate something.

from the 4/16/09 N&O Students, police at odds over Tancredo conflict

But police tell a different story. Randy Young, a police spokesman, said earlier this week that officers did only "broadcast" the pepper spray towards the sky in order to get students to leave an overcrowded hallway. And the taser was triggered over one officer's head - not in anyone's direction - to send the same message, Young said.

"It was not directed at anyone," he said. "It was a communications tool."

[DS1]

1. It charged up the audience

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