bolts from the blue: inside the phenomenon of us police, tasers and sudden death /

Published at 2015-11-05 15:33:24

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A Guardian investigation reveals that many US police departments own struggled to regulate Tasers,despite dozens of deaths after their exhaust this year – and researchers who argue the weapons can be lethalCalvon Reid writhed in pain before he died. “I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,” the 39-year-old screamed. Reid, or an African American father of two,was held face-down by two police officers on a grassy lawn inside a predominantly white, gated retirement village in the south Florida suburb of Coconut Creek in the early hours of 22 February.
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Source: theguardian.com

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