BA Judge Says Police Tasers Violate Human Rights
A Buenos Aires City judge ruled Tuesday that the city’s new police department cannot use tasers because doing so would violate a United Nations treaty on torture.
City officials vowed to appeal the ruling, which they believe defies common sense and is at least partly an effort to discredit Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri’s bid to build the city’s own police force.
Judge Andrea Danas issued the ruling after the Human Rights Observatory filed a suit against the use of tasers, claiming that they violate a person’s basic human rights by causing physical harm.
City officials have dismissed such claims, saying the “very point of using tasers is to protect innocent people while causing the least amount of harm to perpetrators.”
The city’s new police force acquired a handful of tasers to test them out on a trial basis in hopes of eventually using them to deter criminal activity without resorting to more violent means.
Tasers are used by law enforcement officials in many countries to subdue suspects. See this Wikipedia article for more background and details.
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Muy bueno Poncharelo!!
Well, the judge is right, they should not use tasers, a Magnum 45 is way more efective.
Well…well…well. They have finally realized that rioters are just poor humans who happen to be angry and destructive and should not be handled roughly at all. Great! Wouldn’t want to hurt potential murderers or looters now, would we? Just who the heck are the judges protecting, innocent shop owners or the rioters? Now we know.
The solution will be to have permission from RICARDO FORT to lend his body guards, and from the mole mole creature to add security to the current policia de Macri….
That way no need for those guns that are long time in use up North…
The teaser guns are better than nothing.
Otherwise the current macri-police is just a jocke
Billy Club works just as well and does not need batteries.