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Ohio Judge: Bro Wasn't Tased
By Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend
Posted on May 5, 2008, Printed on May 6, 2008
https://www.alternet.org/bloggers/https://www.pamshouseblend.com//84395/
A Summit County judge ordered the county medical examiner to delete any
reference that Tasers contributed to the deaths of three Ohio men.
Need I say more?
Now it's come down to official scrubbing the use and abuse of Tasers by
law enforcement. From Ohio, a look at where the police state is going.
A
Summit County Common Pleas judge ordered the county medical examiner to
delete any reference that Tasers contributed to the deaths of three
Ohio men.
All three men were in an
'agitated' state and 'on drugs' when police officers shot them with
Tasers, and the judge ordered their deaths be ruled 'accidental' also
that any reference to "homicide or "electrical pulse stimulation"
should be deleted from death certificates and autopsy reports."
Five
sheriff's deputies had been indicted on charges related to the death of
one of the men, who also had a history of mental illness. The judge
further ordered that man's death be ruled as "undetermined" and to
"delete any references to homicide and the death possibly being caused
by asphyxia, beatings or other factors."
Wow. Not only
the Taser reference is scrubbed, but all the other kinds of abuses
common in police brutality cases! My, my. And yes, someone from Taser
International had something to say about the ruling. It's after the
jump.
As of mid-April, 68 wrongful-death or injury lawsuits
have been dismissed or judgments entered in favor of Taser, according
to the company. The company has not lost any product-liability lawsuits.....
