“They knew they got it”
by digby
I guess the pepper spray was too messy, so they used what amounts to a cattle prod:
“We’d rather not do arrests but we are prepared to if need be,’’ State Patrol spokesman Dan Coon said a few minutes ago [about 6:40 p.m.]. Coon explained that protesters are being given additional chances to leave voluntarily. “It’s still very fluid. Lots of things are going on.’’
Coon also confirmed that tasers were used to zap protesters that tried to push past troopers guarding the north doors of the Legislative Building:
“Basically what happened was a trooper used his taser on three subjects that were … attempting to get back into the building. … (T) hey used it almost for their own safety to keep the crowd back. … They said it was absolutely necessary to keep the troopers at the door from being trampled. … and keep more people from coming into the building.”
Coon described the use of tasers as a “dry stun” in which the subject is jabbed by the electrical probes rather than shot by electrically charged arts. “I’m not sure it sends the same juice as with the two darts, but the individual knows they just got tased. They knew they got it,’’ Coon said.
I’m sure they did. In case you are wondering what a “dry stun” is:
A Las Vegas police document says “The Drive Stun causes significant localized pain in the area touched by the Taser, but does not have a significant effect on the central nervous system. The Drive Stun does not incapacitate a subject but may assist in taking a subject into custody.”[27] “Drive Stun” was used in the UCLA Taser incident and the University of Florida Taser incident (which popularized the widespread use of the phrase “Don’t tase me, bro!”). It is also known as “dry tasing”, “contact tasing”, or “drive tasing”.
Amnesty International has expressed particular concern about Drive Stun, noting that “… the potential to use TASERs in drive-stun mode — where they are used as ‘pain compliance’ tools when individuals are already effectively in custody — and the capacity to inflict multiple and prolonged shocks, renders the weapons inherently open to abuse.”
They’ll know they got it, though.
Update:
Commenter at the video site:
Tasing is effective, throw a few bars of Irish Spring at em along the way and we will have these filthy parasites cleared out in no time.
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