Tuesday November 10, 2009, 2:52 am
Thank you for this.

I often wonder if it is more the people who use them or the devices themselves that bring on such misery for everyone in the end?

Look at what we have now a days to subdue a person with a device the sends electric currents into there body?

Does this seem humane? I know it's better than a bullet, but I am making sense by saying that as well?

The UK don't even carry guns and they have a high crime rate but they still seem to be able to do there job with less or the same number of police fatalities?

It wasn't his fault I feel, but rather the establishment for saying, here, use this electrical current to shock a human being in pain in order to put hand cuffs on them even while shaking from electrocution!

It's insane, and he should not have committed suicide.

This is the darn industry that promotes these weapons that are so inhumane and are now known to cause heart attacks and so much more!

My thoughts and prayers are with his widow.

She deserves an apology for his rank and file being stripped!

Nick J Davis
Toronto ON Canada

Tuesday November 10, 2009, 11:20 am
In the UK only trained police carry tasers or guns and use them in certain circumstances. We have few fatalities from gun crime and very few policemen die from gun shots. In fact, our police refuse to go on patrol with weapons.

It is unfortunate that the charge in tasers is fatal in certain circumstances and perhaps the manufacturers need to review the amount of the charge used.

In the meantime, my sympathies go with both families. From what is available on the internet, I believe that Maichael was made a scape goat to save the police department from a red face.