1. And yet the attorneys for the officer have said “ Fearing for his safety, and the safety of the civilians around him, Officer Rolfe dropped his taser and fired.Tannin wrote: 1: The taser had already been expended, and the officer knew that as it was his own taser.
2: A taser - a device explicitly designed to do no lasting harm - is is no way, shape, or form a deadly weapon to be considered in the same breath as a gun - a weapon expressly designed to kill.
2. The same prosecutor who filed these charges the week before said “ a taser is a deadly weapon under Georgia law”
Like most things any harm is reduced by efficient training - a defibrillater in the hands of an untrained person can be deadly.
The accusation of kicking him once he was down - yep watch the video he kicked the taser from his hand JUST before he commenced CPR - that’s on his body cam recording!
I’m waiting to see all the evidence presented and tested as it should be for all legal cases surely!