Another Tasering Results In Death
Another Tasering Results In Death
6-15-5
WEST PARK, Fla. (AP) — A Fort Lauderdale man died after Broward sheriff’s deputies shocked him with a Taser. Officers had been responding to a call about a home invasion in West Park.
The homeowner says 48-year-old Horace Owens broke in while he was watching television. He says the intruder ran from room to room yelling, in these words, “Please don’t let them kill me.”
Deputies got Owens outside, but he struggled with them. He was hit with the electrical shock outside the house. Officers tried to resuscitate Owens, but he was pronounced dead later at the hospital.
Owens is the seventh person to die in South Florida after being shocked by a Taser since 2002.
Comment: Latest reports on this most recent extra-judicial killing tell us that the heart attack that the victim suffered was caused by the cocaine that the coroner found in his blood rather than the 50,000 volts from the Taser. This is surely good news for the millions of Americans that already have a heart condition or who have ingested any of the millions of legal stimulants prescribed by their doctors because they need never worry about bearing the shame of having ‘death by Taser’ printed on their death certificate.
