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1. Maximum range of these tasers is about 15 feet. This victim was running away from the cops,

Reply to egbertowillies (Original post)

Sat Jun 13, 2020, 08:34 PM

Jun 2020

swinging his right arm around with the taser in his hand as he ran. He pointed it back at the cops momentarily as he was running away when he was about 15 feet away from the nearest cop. The victim brought his arm back down to his side almost immediately, continued running away from the officers and was shot repeatedly (in the back?) when he was about 20 feet away. That's not a justified shooting, IMO.

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Maximum range of these tasers is about 15 feet. This victim was running away from the cops, sop Jun 2020 #1