cops don't need tasers

Yet Another Taser Death, and of Course: A Black Youth

How many will it take before we can agree? There is no way one can defend tasering at this point. I mean, I can barely keep up with all the national news, and so I’m sure for every taser-death story like this one I read, I’m not reading 10 others. Other nations don’t give tasers to their police officers and still manage to keep crime down. There are better ways to enforce the law.

A teenager died after police used a Taser on him inside a grocery store in northeast Charlotte.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police homicide detectives said they will investigate why police used the Taser on 17-year-old Darryl Turner Thursday afternoon.  Read more