Taser in question
Posted on 10. May, 2009 by Xander in News in Review
Another video displaying the NYPD as a force for tyranny has surfaced. According to the New York Post, the police are “allegedly” beating a suspect repeatedly with a baton after struggling to subdue the individual. Judge for yourself if the police were “allegedly beating” the man. This most recent video follows on the heels of another citizen captured video where we see a NYPD officer step out of his way and literally shove a person riding a bicycle, throwing him to the curb.
Disturbingly, these videos are becoming more frequent online. Such as the mainstream news report of a teenage boy with a broken back, that was tasered over nineteen times for not complying with police demands. While the action of administering over 50,000 volts nineteen times to a sixteen-year-old with a broken back is not in question by the police, at least how the kid fell and broke his back is.
The father of the unfortunate child has complained that a needed surgery had to be suspended by two days due to a high temperature. As the father explains it, the raised temp was a direct result of being tasered.
Many individual have died indirectly, according to the National Institute of Justice, as a result of being tasered. Law suits and media coverage of suspects dying after being tasered has flooded the connection lines. Unfortunately, it is always brushed off due to the underlying health issues of the dead individuals.
In June 2008, the National Institute of Justice reported on the Study of Deaths Following Electro Muscular Disruption. In the report it clearly states, “Many aspects of the safety of CED technology are not well‐known, especially with respect to its effects when used on populations…” Yet while making the claim that they do not know the “aspects of safety,” they continue to declare that, “there is no conclusive medical evidence within the state of current research that indicates a high risk of serious injury or death from the direct effects of CED exposure.”
Interestingly, the report admits that a large percentage of the deaths reported are due to excited delirium. As quoted from the NIJ report, “In many cases of excited delirium, high body temperature is the primary mechanism of death. There is no medical evidence that exposure to CED has an effect on body temperature.”
This raises many questions. Either the NIJ report is intentionally misleading the public with false information, or the report that being tasered caused the sixteen-year-old’s temperature to spike is inaccurate. While this connection will probably be ignored by the mainstream, it demands further investigation.

