Topic: tasers

Pat Robertson demonstrated the difference between a Glock handgun and a Taser on air (700 Club)

Less-than-lethal is the wrong standard

Heather Digby Parton
(Getty/Chalabala)

Police union lobbies for taser use

Michael Arria - In These Times
Michael Thomas Slager, right, pulls out his handgun as Walter Scott runs away from him, April 4, 2015, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP/Courtesy of L. Chris Stewart)

The other Walter Scott outrage

Heather Digby Parton
University of Florida student Andrew Meyer struggles with University Police as they try to remove him from a question and answer session with John Kerry, Sept. 17, 2007, in Gainesville, Fla. Meyer was Tasered and arrested. (AP/Andrew Stanfill)

Why cops' tasers aren't funny

Heather Digby Parton

Cyclist: Cops profiled, tased

Elias Isquith