April Reign

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Taser International

Tasers Can Kill! Shocking!

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Taser, concerned for liability issues for police officers [note not for the company..] is recommending officers avoid the chest area;

Taser International advised them to stop aiming at the chest because of a slight risk of cardiac arrest when the electrified darts hit there.

The company has advised the police to instead aim for the belly or the back of the legs.

Taser International has always assured police officers that the stun gun can never cause problems with the heart, no matter how many times it is used on someone.

This is apparently resulting in some officers leaving the weapon in their lockers. We can only hope this is the beginning of the end of these devices.

Source

The Smoking Gun

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Taser™ is using any and all despicable tactics to threaten, intimidate and otherwise try to warn off those who would bring the potentially deadly outcomes of their product to light.

Into the fray walks Pam Schreiner,

… who worked for the Arizona-based maker of the electric-shock weapons in 2004, says she was threatened and intimidated, including her home being shot at, after she saw company officials intentionally shredding Taser injury reports during a legal proceeding, according to court documents.

“Since leaving Taser International, I have lived in fear of what Taser International will do to me. The company has enormous resources and connections through law enforcement,” Ms. Schreiner says in an affidavit sworn this summer and filed in a court in Georgia.
Taser International says it “aggressively defends our products in all litigation brought against the company.”

“I have been verbally threatened by people hired by Taser to harass and intimidate me. I was told by the two Chandler [Arizona] police officers that they had conducted surveillance of my residence, followed me around and gone through my garbage,” her affidavit says.

“I was confronted at the grocery store by someone I had never met and told that it would not be a good idea for me to be testifying against Taser. In the summer of 2005, shortly before giving my deposition in [a previous case against Taser], a window was shot out of my residence.” {read the rest of this article}

Hmm.. lawsuits, threatening, intimidation, suppression of facts….. Where have we seen this before?

h/t Allison@Creekside