Taser has been a issue that have been debated several years. On one aspect people think that they are completely safe and not harm is done, but for others they do not think that is possible. The first taser was invented in 1974 by Jack Cover and it was named Thomas A. Swift Electronic Rifle (SunSentinel, 2005). This taser used gun powder to shoot the darts out by the wire connected to the gun. The invention did not go anyway until 1991 when two brothers Rick and Tom Smith worked on the device because they wanted a device that was non-lethal (SunSentinel, 2005). It was until 1993 when the two brothers and Cover would team up and founded the Taser International Company (CBC Investigative, 2012). They created the air taser, which air is used to shoot
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A popular story that hit the media about the use of taser was in 2007, when a University of Florida student was tased at a forum with Senator John Kerry (Washington Post, 2011). While there the student gave his camera to a women sitting next of him to video tape his questions, but after asking many hitting question they cut his mic and police was called in. There was multiple officers that was trying to obtain him. After he was face down on the ground and yelling “Don’t tase me bro” shortly after an officer tased him (Wasington Post, 2011). Looking at this story the officers did not do there job. The young man was face down on the ground with three or more officers on top of him. There was enough face being applied where they should have been able to obtain and did not need to use the taser to apply more force. He was charged with disturbing the peace and resisting arrest, but the charges was later dropped (Washington Post, 2011). In this situation the person was not hurt with the misuse of tase, but that is not always the
A popular story that hit the media about the use of taser was in 2007, when a University of Florida student was tased at a forum with Senator John Kerry (Washington Post, 2011). While there the student gave his camera to a women sitting next of him to video tape his questions, but after asking many hitting question they cut his mic and police was called in. There was multiple officers that was trying to obtain him. After he was face down on the ground and yelling “Don’t tase me bro” shortly after an officer tased him (Wasington Post, 2011). Looking at this story the officers did not do there job. The young man was face down on the ground with three or more officers on top of him. There was enough face being applied where they should have been able to obtain and did not need to use the taser to apply more force. He was charged with disturbing the peace and resisting arrest, but the charges was later dropped (Washington Post, 2011). In this situation the person was not hurt with the misuse of tase, but that is not always the