Peacenik wonders what schools in Guelph have Tasers if any. Peacenik hopes it is none. The police and Taser International have been successful in persuading the authorities that tasers are needed in policing. Peacenik doesn't agree. Are they needed in schools? Are they in your kids school?
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted September 16, 2009.
Tasers aren't 'non-lethal'; they've killed hundreds. With younger people being especially vulnerable to the taser's shock, the risks could be very deadly.
One spring day this April, at the Franklin Correctional Institution on Florida's Highway 67, Sgt. Walter Schmidt pulled out his Electronic Immobilization Device -- EID in officer parlance -- and
zapped two people, who immediately "yelped in pain, fell to the ground and grabbed red burn marks on their arms," according to the
St. Petersburg Times.
The two were not inmates at the prison, however. They were students visiting the facility as part of "Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day."
The move cost Sgt. Schmidt his job, despite his claim that he merely intended to demonstrate how the devices worked. He even asked the children's parents (who were also employees at the prison) permission first. "When they said 'sure,' I went ahead and did it," he told the
Times.
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