Heartless
by digby
This story is just so sad:
I guess if they didn't have the taser they would have had to kill him.
This man had a right to try to save his little baby even if he had to risk his life to do it. But even if they truly believed he had to be stopped there must have been a more humane way to do it. The idea that he would be tortured with electricity and handcuffed by police while his son burns in a fire is almost too much for me to take.
Tasers have changed policing in a way that our society has not yet fully reckoned with. It's changing police officers into lazy sadists. I doubt they even realize it themselves.
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