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There was a whiff of the future in the Taser. When inventor Jack Cover, who died Feb. 7 at 88, first conceived his controversial stun gun, he imagined a world in which danger could be averted without the use of deadly force...
Cover recalled his favorite book of childhood adventure stories, Victor Appleton's Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. "What an amazing thought," he once said, "stunning people with blue balls of electricity." A rejiggering of some letters later, and Cover had a name--TASER (Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle). Resembling a large flashlight, the device fired darts that delivered an electrical current through the human body, briefly incapacitating anyone on the receiving...
...Taser was launched in the mid-'70s and is now used by thousands of police departments and military agencies worldwide. But the device's efficacy has been hotly debated--not least amid the public outrage over its role in the 1991 Rodney King incident. Organizations like Amnesty International have strongly criticized the regularity with which law-enforcement officers use the stun guns, attributing hundreds of deaths to incorrect Taser...
...think the important thing is that I can actually stand up and talk to you." - After being shot with a Taser gun as part of a department demonstration, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept...
...Grant died instantly, prostrate in the universal “I Surrender” position, the officer’s knee smashing his neck into cement. Police supporters claim that Grant was harassing another train passenger. Supposedly the officer who fired the shot thought he was using a taser...