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Old 22nd Aug 2015, 10:56
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Lemain
 
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HeartyMeatballs -- I'm not 'EasyBasher' or bleeding-heart either. TASER-ing is not entirely safe. It can kill. Those police officers who who extract folk on the apron can be well down the food chain. Certainly they won't have medical training. Remember that distressed man who doused himself in petrol? Burst into flames after the police TASER-ed him. Well, he could burst into flames, couldn't he? Commonsense tells most of us that.

My argument is with the use of a TASER. Disruptive people must be removed from the aircraft but appropriately. Since there is real risk of injury or death to the victim TASER-ing is not appropropriate unless there is real risk of injury to others.
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