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...TASER REMOTE AREA DENIAL...
...Taser Remote Area Denial Want to stop rioters rampaging through your embassy? This Star Trek-like force field, which could be ready for deployment by 2008, can be set up in doorways, to deliver a shock to uninvited guests who try to cross its electrified barrier...
...Stand back or you’ll get Tasered too!": That was the yell of an angry police officer when a concerned onlooker stepped forward to protest the shocking of a student with a Taser in the UCLA library. The incident took place nearly two weeks ago, when a student refused to produce his ID during a standard check of library premises by police...
Most accounts of the situation agree that the student refused to leave and, when he lay prone in protest, was shocked by a taser five times. A video of the event, taken by cell phone and circulated on YouTube, has sparked widespread disgust. The officer’s threat to Taser the intervening onlooker demonstrates what is perhaps most shocking about the incident: the wanton and unnecessary use of violence...
Superficially at least, the Taser is the perfect weapon for dealing with dangerous scenarios such as riots. It purportedly does no permanent damage and yet completely immobilize its victims. This is how the public perceives them at least and, to our dismay, evidently many users of NLWs share the perception. In fact, however, no thorough medical review of their effects has been carried out, and since the weapon’s most extensive testing was conducted by the company that sells them, human rights groups have questioned the label "non-lethal." Yet even if Tasers pose no risk of death...