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The Toll of Tasers (reuters.com)
2 points by tvanzyl 3218 days ago
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> Reuters documented 1,005 incidents in the United States in which people died after police stunned them with Tasers, nearly all since the early 2000s – the most thorough accounting to date of fatal encounters involving the paralyzing stun guns.

That's pretty disturbing.

It seems clear that US police have almost no training in de-escalation.