Here's a great article on the use of tasers and what's becoming an important part of the debate --- the fact that they are killing people with them:
On a balmy fall night, two police officers in a squad car in east Bradenton spotted a man on a bicycle without a headlight.
Derrick Humbert, 38, rode a bike around town because seizures from a head injury prevented him from driving. He worked odd jobs as a short-order cook and gardener. He took care of his three kids, 2, 8 and 11, while their mother worked the evening shift at a 7-Eleven.
On this Monday in late September, he was riding home from a convenience store just after midnight when police told him to stop.
Instead, he pedaled around a corner past three houses, jumped off the bike and ran into a yard, the two officers chasing him on foot.
Read on...
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