Category: taser stories

August 10, 2008

Putting Tasers in Schools

I don’t know a lot about the context of this school and what the rationale might be for doing something so severe as to use Tasers against children, but I do know this: Treating people like criminals will have one major result. They’ll become criminals. Full story here . Tasers have already been desrcibed by the United Nations as a tool of torture and yet […]

January 15, 2008

TASER to visit Toronto

Arizona-based Taser International will be in Toronto hawking their latest products (maybe even the ones with the MP3s?) to the Toronto Police Force. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/01/15/tto-tasers.html?ref=rss It amazes me how easy it has become for companies like this to sell fear to all levels of government. I wonder if their timing has anything to do with the Falconer Report on Toronto Schools. Maybe it was all one […]

January 12, 2008

Taser Death – Miami

A man who resisted arrest on Friday, January 11, 2008 was subdued and later tasered by officers. He became unresponsive, so was taken in to the Doctor’s Hospital in Coral Gables, where he was pronounced dead. More here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/375399.html

January 10, 2008

Taser with MP3 Player

I can’t think of a more surreal way to introduce my new blog “Excited Delirium” than with this story: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/10/music-gets-shock-treatment I look forward to covering more stories about the bizarre world of “Excited Delirium”.