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Originally Posted by crash
The Taser was a contact taser and he grabbed and ran 45 minutes after first contact.
Don’t think a taser justifies shooting and killing him. All I will say if he had been white would the officer have shot him.
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There is not such thing as a contact taser. A taser fires a cartridge that is attached to the gun with cords. But once the cartridge is expelled, the taser can operate as a stun gun which may be to what you are referring.
Police are trained to shoot people that have tasers or stun guns because they can render an armed officer helpless and the officer's gun can then be taken from him.
The only argument that might be made in this case was that there was another officer there who could have prevented that from happening.
I'd like to know if Atlanta police are trained to shoot when fired upon with a taser or if a person has a stun gun.
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