Officers at shelter then separated Yanny Cordero from one-year-old son and punched Cordero’s head, according to footage

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      8 months ago

      There are varying degrees of lethality. Some things kill nearly 100% of the time, while others kill less frequently.

      Getting stabbed isn’t guaranteed to be lethal, but that doesn’t mean that knives are “less than lethal”. They’re still lethal.

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        8 months ago

        There are not varying degrees of death.

        They’re called that way because unlike a knife, they dont “kill less frequently” but “don’t kill” (at least by design).

        You can’t be less dead. You can be less than dead. Plus I was intentionally making a pedantic asterisk because he did one, i dont really care if it’s right to what he implied.

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          8 months ago

          I think the point they’re trying to make is that tasers have in fact killed numerous people. Though at a lower rate than a traditional firearm. They’re lethal less often.

          Oh and some sauce: 500 deaths over a decade is near 1 death a week on average.