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ALSO DISTRICT ATTORNEY PAUL HOWARD SAID ON TELEVISION THAT UNDER GEORGIA LAW A TASER IS CONSIDERED A DEADLY WEAPON. HE STATED THIS AFTER THE TASER INCIDENT OF THE YOUNG INDIVIDUALS IN THE CAR A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO
If he follows the Rule-of-Law he will call it Justified, but if he is influence by the bias media and its pressured by the liberal Mayor he will sadly charge the officer!
This DA is a joke and has lost his mind, what about the "violent" fleeing felon rule Mr Howard?
This is unbelievable! The officer followed the law step by step and did exactly what he was trained to do. I know the police can’t strike, but I anticipate a complete shut down. Let that fu#%* city’s crime rate go through the roof. Why take action if you are arrested for doing your job and following the rules. The pendulum will swing back when all American cities are complete cesspools because the cops are afraid to do their jobs. Good Luck Democratic areas!
Those democrats LOVE their science...
https://www.livescience.com/36418-ta...-stun-gun.html
Why Tasers Sometimes Kill
By Linda Thrasybule May 30, 2013
In rare cases, people have gone into cardiac arrest and died after being shocked in the chest with stun guns such as Tasers, and now researchers say they better understand why this happens.
Researchers looked at eight cases involving men and teen boys who lost consciousness after getting shocked by the TASER X26, a weapon widely used by law enforcement and the military.
In each case, the stun gun was applied to the chest, and the individuals experienced cardiac arrest after their hearts began to beat either too fast or abnormally.
Seven of the eight males died, while one survived with impaired memory.
“In no way am I saying that we shouldn’t use Taser weapons, but if you use it, be aware that cardiac arrest is a possibility,” said study author Dr. Douglas Zipes, a cardiologist at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
Stun-gun use can be risky
The handgun-shaped weapon shoots two barbed darts into a person’s skin or clothing. The darts are connected to wires that deliver 50,000 volts of electrical current for five seconds. The shock temporarily subdues the individual, causing them pain and muscle contractions.
“I think many law enforcement users are not aware of the possibility of cardiac arrest,” Zipes said.
In 2009, stun gun manufacturers advised users to avoid shooting the weapons at people's chests. But it doesn’t seem that the message has gotten out, Zipes noted.
The safety of stun guns has been questioned by advocacy groups such as Amnesty International, which reported more than 300 stun gun-related deaths in the U.S. between 2001 and 2008.
Zipes recommended that users pull the trigger a single time to avoid repeated or lasting shocks.
“That should be sufficient,” he said. “But that’s a judgment they have to make in the field.”
Cause of cardiac arrest still unclear
The eight cases that Zipes analyzed were under litigation, and involved healthy males who were shocked near or over the heart. All lost consciousness after receiving the shock.
In six cases, records of heart rhythms after the shock showed ventricular tachycardia, a condition where the heart beats too fast, and ventricular fibrillation, where the heart beats irregularly. In one case, the person did not respond and had no heartbeat.
The study adds to existing evidence, including studies in pigs, sheep and humans, which show that stun guns aimed at the chest may lead to cardiac arrest. But not all deaths following stun-gunshocks can be linked to electrical shock, Zipes noted.
Dr. Robert Myerburg, a cardiologist at the University of Miami who wasn’t involved with the study, said that while he doesn't disagree with the information reported in the study, he also isn’t entirely convinced that shocks to the chest are always the cause of cardiac arrest.
"Most, if not all of the incidents, were associated with stressful situations — that can also contribute to triggering cardiac arrest," Myerburg said.
Zipes suggested that stun-gun users avoid shooting at the chest, and monitor the person after they have been shocked. Stun-gun users should be prepared to resuscitate anyone who loses consciousness with an external defibrillator, he said.
The study was published in the May issue of the journal Circulation.
Pass it on: Stun-gun shock could lead to cardiac arrest, even death.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/po...ers-since-2000
Almost all 18,000 police departments in the U.S. issue their officers Tasers, or stun guns, as a non-lethal alternative to subdue people they might see as a threat. But in a five-part series, Reuters documented more than 1,000 incidents since 2000 in which their Tasers have killed people. Peter Eisler, who co-reported the series, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington.
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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR:
Almost all 18,000 police departments across the U.S. issue officers tasers, or stun guns, which are meant to be a non-lethal weapon to help police subdue suspects. But tasers have proved controversial partly because, when misused, they can result in death. In a five-part series of original reporting, digging through court documents, police reports and public records, "Reuters" has documented more than 1,000 incidents since the year 2000 when people died after police fired tasers at them.
Peter Eisler is one of the authors of the series and joins me now from Washington.
Peter, I know these are the first five parts. The series isn't over. You're still working on this. But for someone who maybe hasn't seen any of these series, what are you — what are you trying to show?
PETER EISLER, REPORTER, REUTERS:
Well, we set out to sort of look at this question of how many people were dying after they were stunned with tasers and what the litigation burden was associated with these deaths. So, it turned out that there were more deaths, considerably more deaths associated with these things than we had expected, and much more litigation around them than we had thought, and a significant financial burden for the public.
SREENIVASAN:
Is there something faulty with the devices? Why are people dying? What's happening in the body when someone gets tased?
EISLER:
You can't really assess their safety without sort of very broad, scientifically controlled studies, and it's difficult to do these studies on the populations that are considered to be most sensitive to these devices — people with bad hearts, people who are suffering through mental health crises.
SREENIVASAN:
And so, what have the scientists found when it comes to how — for example, you have one story — just about how this affects the heart?
EISLER:
So, the weapons themselves are not regulated, not as they're sold to police. You know, they're not a medical device. They're not regulated by the FDA. They're not a consumer product, so they're not regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
So, taser itself has done a lot of the — did a lot of the early testing on these devices, and one of the things that we found was that those tests were not necessarily as thorough or as solid as taser may have led police to believe. As time went on and more and more research was done on them, more independent study was done, there were connections drawn, in some cases, between taser shots — particularly long-duration or multiple shots with the taser — and the ability of the weapon to what's called capture the heartbeat, which is to change the rhythm of the heart in a way that could lead to a fatal cardiac arrest.
SREENIVASAN:
What do they say in response to your reporting?
EISLER:
Well, certainly, tasers are designed in part as an alternative to firearms which are, you know, expected to be lethal. And Taser says that these weapons have been studied, and that they're overwhelmingly safe. Taser's position is that the risks to the heart are more theoretical. The company does not concede that there has ever been a death direct — a cardiac-related death directly attributable to a taser. What we did was we looked at as many autopsy reports as we could collect on the 1,000-plus cases we identified, and we ended up getting around 750 autopsies.
And we found that in at least 150-plus of those autopsies, the medical examiner, the coroner, attributed the death either in whole or in part to the taser, or listed the taser as a contributing factor to that death.
SREENIVASAN:
And what about the police departments out there that have these tasers? It's not just one gun. There are several models of these weapons.
EISLER:
The weapon has evolved over time. The newer ones Taser says are safer than earlier generations of the weapon. Police departments, as you said, the overwhelming majority of police departments in the country have these things. What we have started to see in recent years is police departments beginning to refine their policies and kind of close the window of when they tell officers that it is acceptable to use one of these things.
SREENIVASAN:
All right. Peter Eisler of "Reuters", thanks so much.
EISLER:
Thank you very much.