Reject these lies too yall. We saw this already when police murdered Oscar Grant in 2009. Johannes Mehserle (cop who murdered Oscar) also tried to say he “meant to use his taser”. We’ve been here before!
(Also, tasers can kill people)
(Also, tasers can kill people)
https://twitter.com/ap/status/1381657470653890565
“Reuters documented 1,081 cases through the end of 2018 in which people died after being shocked by police with a Taser, the vast majority of them after 2000. At least 32 percent of those who died were Black, and at least 29 percent were white.”
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Sharing this because I can already see another avenue for reforms to be pushed by politicians calling for “less lethal weapons”. No. We gotta reject that too. Less lethal is still lethal. People have also died from being tased by police.
We would be foolish to think that the “less lethal” reforms would end or even mitigate police violence cause when police have used no weapons at all, guess what, they’ve allowed their bodies to be weapons as evidenced by the deaths of Eric Garner and George Floyd
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