“There is outrage over the killing of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. On Sunday, officer Kim Potter, a 26-year veteran of the force, shot and killed 20-year-old Wright, who was unarmed, during a traffic stop after she confused her gun for her taser. There must be some sort of design flaw in the Taser handles – or in our country, because this is not an isolated incident.
Experts have said this is not the first time such a deadly mistake has been made and it won’t be the last. Why are we Tasering so many people? I think it’s because when people hear ‘Taser’, they assume it’s harmless because it’s non-lethal. But in fact, it’s an act of torture to force compliance. And it’s just possible that our laws are enforced too much with threats of violence for something that considers itself a free society.
In fairness to the police, they’re just using the only tools and trainings we give them. It’s like the saying goes: if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Also, maybe let’s not give the police hammers?” —Stephen Colbert
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