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Amnesty: tasers are 'dangerous'
AN INTERNATIONAL human rights charity has slammed the Home Office for its decision to introduce tasers in London.
Oliver Sprague, programme director for Amnesty International, described the weapons as dangerous yesterday, Friday, December 7, and sited the case of a Polish man killed by one in Vancouver Airport, in Canada.
He said: "Recent cases have proven just how dangerous these weapons can be. There's a real climate of caution at the moment around the use of Tasers in other countries.
"It's simply the wrong time for British police forces to be extending their use of Tasers."
Stun guns will be introduced across the capital on Monday, December 10.
3:56pm Saturday 8th December 2007
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CommentPosted by: Andrew K, - on 3:13pm Sun 9 Dec 07
There's a guaranteed way to not die when faced with a taser.
Don't bloody resist arrest, then they won't have to be used!
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for law breakers.
There's a guaranteed way to not die when faced with a taser.
Don't bloody resist arrest, then they won't have to be used!
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for law breakers.
Posted by: James Bevan, Harrow on 11:54pm Mon 10 Dec 07
Tasers dangerous? Well not quite as much as a bullet and dangerous to whom exactly? The old lady in the Post Office collecting her pension or some horrible thug on the street causing a nuisance? It's quite easy to avoid the Taser, just behave!
Tasers dangerous? Well not quite as much as a bullet and dangerous to whom exactly? The old lady in the Post Office collecting her pension or some horrible thug on the street causing a nuisance? It's quite easy to avoid the Taser, just behave!
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