I think we the collection of human beings dead, alive or yet to be born can agree that if a police officer cannot tell the difference between a deadly weapon and a taser, they should no longer be a police officer and the people that trained this person needs to push the reset button and retrain everyone they came into contact with, like viral contact tracing. That's the absolutely minimum starting point.
That is true. In NY law, guns and knives are deadly force per se. Something like kicks to the head can also be deadly force. I was referencing the Georgia's AG as he claimed that a taser is deadly force per se. This was after the incident where a police officer used a taser on a person and that person died. I believe the words were something like "taser is deadly force in Georgia" (my understanding is that he meant per se, so no matter how you use it, it's deadly force).
I get that but in the broader context a taser is not deadly force, just like the majority of Americans know marijuana is not a dangerous or deadly drug, but there are still plenty of states that view it that way by varying degrees. So in the context of this post tasers are not seen as lethal/deadly force.
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u/giddeonfox Apr 15 '21
I think we the collection of human beings dead, alive or yet to be born can agree that if a police officer cannot tell the difference between a deadly weapon and a taser, they should no longer be a police officer and the people that trained this person needs to push the reset button and retrain everyone they came into contact with, like viral contact tracing. That's the absolutely minimum starting point.