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[kandrathe]

I would call death a bit of a complication! I'm surprised you posted this when a local man died, just last month, after being tased. Although I have not yet heard of an underlying cause in that case, in fact I read there was no heart condition there, but many of the deaths have been passed off to heart disease, drug use, etc. The problem is that such conditions are rarely visible. "Stop! Do you have a heart condition? I am going to tase you now and I don't want to do a bunch of paperwork if you die." This was a ridiculous use of the taser. She wasn't beating down a swarm of police officers, she was backing away from one. Force of any kind was not called for.

Unless someone is complying with their orders, they are unpredictable and their behavior would be considered potentially life threatening. The officer did not know what weapons the woman may have had at her disposal, and screaming and flailing around or backing away would have given her ample cover to pull a weapon, dispatch the officer, and flee. This is why police are trained to use force at some point to gain compliance with their directives, not because they as sadistic bastards.