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    Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-19979184

    Mind where you're brandishing your clay longsword or breadknife.

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    Re: Blind police use Taser on man after stick mistaken for sword

    Title fixed!!

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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    Maybe the copper needs a white stick.

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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    A samurai sword, yea I can see how they made the mistake NOT, idiots!

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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    i guess he didnt see it comming



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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    I want to see the stick that was mistaken for a sword - it must be pretty badass for a walking stick

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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    Quote Originally Posted by dav532000 View Post
    A samurai sword, yea I can see how they made the mistake NOT, idiots!
    Hard to know without knowing what the guy's cane looks like. Katanas have wooden scabbards, some varients of the katana also don't have hilts. Then again the bobby shouldn't have fired at him until he actually brandished the blade. Plonker.

    Oh well, at least the police apologised and admitted fault. US cops would have just said he looked shifty and tough titties.
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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    To be fair it wasn't totally random - there were reports of a drunk mad with a sword in that area, and he was later found.
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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    Also apparently he was challenged.
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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    Only in Americ... wait, what?!
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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    And this is a perfect example of why I reject suggestions, after those two female officers were killed, of arming all police with firearms, by default. Suppose this "officer" had had a 9mm, not a tazer!

    I can't help but think that the more people wandering the streets with guns, the more innocent people are going to end up shot, even if many of those carrying are police officers. Those carrying need intensive training, and careful psychological selection, which WILL NOT happen if all police are armed.

    I don't much want to get shot with a tazer by PC Quickdraw or WPC Triggerhappy. It's an experience I can happily forego. But I'd much rather that, than by a 9mm.

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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    Quote Originally Posted by ajax2061 View Post
    i guess...

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    ...he didnt see it comming

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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    So have they started handing out tasers to random constables now or was this a traffic cop? I was under the impression that at this point still only firearms officers and traffic cops had tasers!?

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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    Also apparently he was challenged.
    Well, if the challenge was "Police, put the sword down" then he may have felt it didn't apply to him. Being blind and innocent it's not hard to understand that when hearing the police shouting at someone that it wouldn't be aimed at you.
    The taser is supposed to be a last resort weapon for when police feel they are being threatened, i can't imagine a scenario where a blind man walking along would have appeared threatning to the police.

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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    I guess we'll never know the full details but "Taser can be used only where officers would be facing violence or threats of violence of such severity that they would need to use force to protect the public, themselves, and/or the subject(s)."

    I suppose the obvious question is what was a blind man doing of such severity that not only warranted it, but that a police offer could not overpower him without the use of a Taser?
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    Re: Police use Taser on blind man after stick mistaken for sword

    Well the police did apologize,

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