• quantumriff@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When the town I lived in got tasers, we were told they would ONLY be a last resort, to keep an officer from needing to use a pistol to stop a threat. The very next quarter, their training mostly covered how to use it to get compliance from suspects…

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      1 year ago

      When I was with an ex of mine, the cops were at her house because her sister got attacked at school, as I walked down to the house one of the cops saw me, put his hand on his tazer and stared me down the whole time he was there.