Officers at shelter then separated Yanny Cordero from one-year-old son and punched Cordero’s head, according to footage

Officers at shelter then separated Yanny Cordero from one-year-old son and punched Cordero’s head, according to footage

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  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    151·
    10 months ago

    Tasers just let cops shoot people without pulling out thier gun. They don’t need to bother with de-escalation when a “non lethal” weapon can do it for them.

        • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
          52·
          10 months ago

          There are varying degrees of lethality. Some things kill nearly 100% of the time, while others kill less frequently.

          Getting stabbed isn’t guaranteed to be lethal, but that doesn’t mean that knives are “less than lethal”. They’re still lethal.

          • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
            32·
            10 months ago

            There are not varying degrees of death.

            They’re called that way because unlike a knife, they dont “kill less frequently” but “don’t kill” (at least by design).

            You can’t be less dead. You can be less than dead. Plus I was intentionally making a pedantic asterisk because he did one, i dont really care if it’s right to what he implied.

            • Cort@lemmy.world
              41·
              10 months ago

              I think the point they’re trying to make is that tasers have in fact killed numerous people. Though at a lower rate than a traditional firearm. They’re lethal less often.

              Oh and some sauce: 500 deaths over a decade is near 1 death a week on average.