MALONE — Malone Village Police officers are shooting each other in the back.What a hoot!
But they laugh about it.
The department recently took delivery of two Taser X26 model electric-control units...
Detective James Russell was one of the first men shot.No big deal, right? Five seconds. And these people are highly trained to assess the risks, with clear parameters for the Taser's use, surely.
He even has a video clip of the event on his cell phone.
He kneels at the edge of a soft, blue, padded mat with his elbows bent and ticked tight to his sides as he's held by two other officers.
He is told when the charge is coming, the jolt hits, and he falls forward onto the mat, as the laughing and kidding starts.
"It's feels like — if I was hiding and as you walked, I jumped out and went, 'Ahhh!' — that is the kind of shock you feel," Russell said.
The jolt of 50,000 volts that he took lasted one second.
But the jolt of 50,000 volts that an uncooperative suspect will get lasts five seconds.
The probe remains in the skin to deliver additional zaps from the gun if officers feel more jolts are neededIf officers "feel" more are needed. Just good police science. Anyhow, watch this really funny YouTube, of a mentally ill man in court, surrounded by a half dozen court officers, who gets tased until he loses bowel control and is rendered unconscious. The officers seemed to "feel" the lump on the floor might need even more. Until they start to get worried and call paramedics. It's a gas!
And read this commentary on the hilarity.
Now you have no reason to be surprised when some drunk, or some crazy lady, or some obstreperous teenager dies in police custody, and a huge lawsuit results costing you your tax money, because somebody "felt" the need to keep zapping away with their perfectly safe new Taser X26.
