Tasers

[panader0]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007MQ4JLG/ref=dp_cerb_

It says in this ad that the wires extend 15 feet. I think that once a taser gun has been fired, it needs a new cartridge.
Or must physically touch a body. If so, the taser Brooks ran with was completely harmless and the cops would
know that.
I may have my info wrong. Any taser experts here?

[John1956PA]

1. I think there may be different types of tasers. Some with wires, others not. n/t

[panader0]

2. The ones without wires must be touched to the body I think.

Either way, what Brooks had was ineffective at that distance.

[John1956PA]

3. The George Floyd case was appalling, but this case is different.

If I were the pursuing police officer in this case, I would not want to be tased by the fleeing Rayshard Brooks who had just put up a strenuous fight and who seemed to turn towards the officer and point the taser. Perhaps, in that split second, the officer feared that Rayshard was about to initiate another round of combat. I regret that the officer fired his weapon and that Rayshard died. However, I think that the officer's firing of his weapon was a judgment call that is not totally indefensible.

Of course, there are so many factors involved. Rayshawn Brooks may have understandably panicked over being told he was going to be handcuffed, and, in an intoxicate state, decided to fight the police officers. It is a very sad tragedy for which the assessment of blame may go on for some time.

[HotTeaBag]

4. I agree.

Further, I think that if I (a white person) were to take a taser from a police officer while being arrested, then run away, then turn to fire the taser at an officer, I too would have been shot.

Rayshard Brooks did not deserve to die for his choices, but his choices were not good ones.