Cause of death
by digby
The location was convenient anyway:
A Connecticut man who was causing a ruckus in the lobby of a hospital died after being shocked with a Taser by police.
Police were called to Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, Conn., at 12:30 a.m. on Sunday by employees complaining about a man causing a disturbance, the Hartford Courant reported.
Cops arrested the man and threw him in the back of their cruiser, where the man continued to act belligerent, police said.
One officer tasered the man and, shortly after, he fell unconscious.
He was rushed back to the hospital, where emergency crews tried to resuscitate him, but he died early Sunday morning.
Cops said an autopsy was planned to determine the cause of death.
Oh why bother? He was obviously going to die of something else (aren’t we all?) so the taser couldn’t possibly be the cause of death. Therefore, he died of natural causes.
Seriously, they are likely to say that he had “excited delirium” the organic disease that only manifests itself in people who are tasered by police. Taser international has spent a lot of money on junkets convincing coroners that this junk science is real.
h/t to bb