A-Infos (en) Italy, Umanita Nova #24-25 - (Non-)Lethal Weapon. Dying from a Taser. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

A few days ago in Massenzatico, a person died after being struck by a 
taser fired by the police. According to a well-known local newspaper, 
the victim was "in a strong state of agitation." In short, they were 
causing a disturbance in the street around dawn and, as a result of the 
police intervention, lost their life. ---- We're not interested in 
debating the victim's supposed danger or criminal record - that's not 
the point. We checked, and we found no evidence that "disturbing the 
peace" carries the death penalty. ---- The point is that for several 
years now there has been a growing trend - massively accelerated by this 
right-wing government and formalized by the latest security decree - to 
handle everything through repression and the use of force. The political 
plan is always the same: target the marginalized, social struggles, 
anyone considered different or trying to build a libertarian, 
solidaristic, and internationalist society. Without states, without 
armies, without authoritarianism.

Meanwhile, white-collar crimes go unpunished, workplace homicides remain 
without justice, and men who brutally assault their wives are 
practically acquitted with reasoning offensive to any human being. At 
the same time, repression crushes even the slightest dissent. And 
increasingly often, those who encounter a police officer with a taser 
are granted no hearing at all - they simply end up dead on the pavement, 
killed by a so-called "non-lethal" weapon.

Even schoolchildren are persuaded of the taser's supposed 
"non-lethality" when they are invited to police events - always with the 
ultimate aim of militarizing schools and normalizing this whole system, 
starting with the youngest.

The statements from police professional associations are incredible: 
they staunchly defend the taser's use, immediately express closeness and 
solidarity "with the colleague involved," and only at the very end - 
almost as an afterthought - with the victim's family. Some don't even 
mention the victim. What's more, they preemptively defend themselves, 
citing other cases where autopsies supposedly excluded the taser as the 
"direct" cause of death, joining in a self-absolving chorus that calls 
for "clarifying the facts" before judging the officers.

Well, perhaps the "disturber of the peace" in Massenzatico would also 
have liked the facts to be clarified - before the sentence was carried out.

FEDERAZIONE ANARCHICA REGGIANA - FAI

https://umanitanova.org/arma-non-letale-morire-di-taser/
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