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Quote by: ruksak ORLY? I am attacking peoples ignorance of the taser, how it is applied and how it leads to death. Do you know what "Excitement Delirium" is? This is the cause of this mans death in this case. Police need to recognize when people are suffering from this phenomenon. The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology - Abstract: Volume 20(2) June 1999 p 120-127 Cocaine-Associated Rhabdomyolysis and Excited Delirium: Different Stages of the Same Syndrome. Excited delirium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia NPR : Tasers Implicated in Excited Delirium Deaths Excited delirium can occur in people that have had no drugs at all. Actually simulating syptoms of a cocaine overdose 700,000 applications of the taser here in America. Only approximately 100 deaths can be connected with the taser. Field Use and Statistics Lots of useful nuggets in there. Here's something else for you to chew on Prax my boy. We can get rid of the taser altogether. But that will do NOTHING to lower instances of suspects violently and physically confronting the cops. The cops will have to use other less safe means of confrontation. Many times they will have to draw their guns and fire. Fact: A cop can disarm and dissolve a knife wielding crackhead with a taser and not get hurt. Fact: Take the taser away and the cop will use his gun 100% of the time in this instance.

No the cause of the man's death was not excited delirium. It was being tasered FOUR times, and then having four 200 pound men piling on top of him, one putting his whoel weight on the victim's neck and head.

By the way, did you also take note of that fact? That he was tasered FOUR times? (the police of course lied about this too, saying he was only tasered once or twice, witnesses immediatly called them on this, and the video shows that to be a lie also) He was tasered at least once when he was already on the floor, with cops on top of him. What they thought he was resisting arrest? HE WAS CONVULSING FROM THE PREVIOUS 3 SHOCKS OF 50000 VOLTS SURGING THROUGH HIS SYSTEM.

It's sad that only the moronic jocks seek to become cops because we could use some intelligent people to fill these positions.

This is nothing short of manslaughter. If night club bouncers or security guards had done this they would already be awaiting a bail hearing.

As for getting rid of the taser, sure it might mean someone who was an actual violent criminal and a real threat, gets killed, but we know the cops would never pull out their guns and shoot an unarmed innocent person like this.