Tasers are just another way for the police to abuse their power. They should never have been legalized. Almost everyone who is pro-taser has never been zapped by one. Tasers should be outlawed completely and totally. Until then, a zero-tolerance policy of, “Use a taser, go to jail” should be enacted by every legislature and enforced indiscriminantly.

This has to rank as one of the most stupid questions ever posed in this forum.

Why not ask, “Should police be defenseless against criminal attackers?”

Criminals and thugs not only seek to, but succeed in inflicting serious harm on all sorts of people. In case you haven’t noticed, assaults on police officers have become commonplace.

Will we allow our police officers to employ some intermediate level of weapon to defend themselves, or will we restrict them to the basic (baton) and the lethal (firearms)? Why would we deny them the means to defend themselves against those who have no regard for others?

Our police officer are not educated(some with GED’s) enough to make a decission on wiping their nose much less using tazers. They are scared uneducated kids and most should never touch a weapon much less use one. The studies are flawed at best and for some reason know one pays attention that these tazers have killed full grown bears. I could easily cause heart attacks in at least %50 of the officers that are on the force now. The problem is they tests these things on pigs at a resting postion. I would like to have every officer get hi heart rate around 160 and then let someone taze them. You will induce a heart attack this is a fact. The ignorance of people is unbelievable. Oh by the way I do believe in the use of a tazer, but I believe 8 year olds are much to young and police policy does allow them to taze grade schoolers. Our police officers are scared of their own shadow and that is why thhey use them corwardness should not be a reason for using deadly force.

Okay forget about the news conference that the police had. Also forget what the papers are being told by the police what happened. What you have left is a fight between a sister and her brother and a cop who tazed someone. This is the facts. Do not belive the police .. Harmon says over all crime has went down in St. Louis. What he left out was that murder, rape and assaults increased. Okay so what went down? …………. shoplifting………. big deal. I bounced in bars several years three nights a week and I have dealt with all sorts of situations. I have been jumped, people had taken swings at me and I have been called everything in the book. I was able to handle every sistuation by being polite and then if that did not work I knocked them out and I had never hit anyone. We have cops that are cowards. I do believe in using tazers, but when they use them on 8 year olds then what would they be able to say to a reasonable person taht would make them belive that they truely were in danger of getting their shins kicked.
Hey Rocky they do not have the officers get their heart rates up to a level of where most people are when they are having issues. Get your heart rate up to about 160 to 180 and I will gaurantee that I could induce a heart attack in you…. STOP being such a dumb a**.

I feel sorry that the mother witnessed this. How horrible, but why was he allowed to rough up his sister, Mom why didn’t you end it when it started? Lets face it you can blame yourself for the outcome. Sadly we will all end up paying for this after the lawsuit. Hopefully his unwed girlfriend and child will be able to live on what they get and not need public aid. Yes taser away, if we are not doing wrong we have no worries. Straighten up folks, correct your children and teach them right from wrong and live that way yourself.

Unfortunately they are becoming the weapon of choice among law enforcement agencies. I’m all for their use but not everybody is going to practice restraint as they should. I’m afraid the lack of discretion will always be an issue.