538 People Killed By Tasers in the last Decade

The argument that tasers are a less lethal form to subdue a criminal suspects is an absolute false assumption.  Info Wars reports on Truth Not Tasers and Electronic Village compiling a list of all taser related deaths since 2001.  Some of the most compelling tales are as follows:

“We further found that, when dealing with people with mental illness, PPB (Portland Police Bureau) officers use electronic control weapons, or tasers, in circumstances where the use of tasers was not justified, or deploy them more times than necessary. Finally, in situations where PPB officers arrest people with mental illness for low level offenses, we found that there is a pattern or practice of using more force than necessary in these circumstances.”

One such case involved an 11-year-old girl with autism, found wandering naked along a highway in Oregon. The child was obviously unarmed and a cab driver who’d stopped to help her said she was non-combative and calm. In fact, according to the cab driver, the girl was giggling.

The police officer who arrived on the scene ordered the girl to stop walking and when she refused he threatened to taze her.

The girl’s father appeared on Infowars with Jakari Jackson and said his daughter was unable to respond to the officer because she was autistic and had difficulty communicating.

Instead of waiting for assistance, the officer tasered the 11-year-old girl then slammed her head into the hood of his car.

The girl survived the attack, but other children with disabilities weren’t always as lucky.

17-year-old Derrick Jones died in 2009. Jones, who had been drinking at his own home, was tasered when he “moved rapidly” toward a police officer and made unkind comments. Unarmed 15-year-old Brett Elder was taken down with taser, even though he only weighed 140 pounds.

And 16-year old Robert Mitchell was probably the most horrific case. After being chased through a neighborhood and cornered by at least 6 police officers, an exhausted Mitchell – unarmed, 5′ 2” and 130 pounds, hands raised in surrender, was tazed – to death.

Tasering 11 year old girls, American cops are just as bad as any brutal dictatorship in the world.  But hey, they're just doing their jobs.