Durango Herald: Group wants police to give up Tasers (New Mexico)

Emphasis in last paragraph is mine.
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Article Last Updated; Tuesday, August 18, 2009

ALBUQUERQUE - Members of a Hispanic-rights group are calling for authorities to give up their Taser guns.

A crowd from the League of United Latin American Citizens chanted Saturday "Tasers are lethal, make them illegal" at Albuquerque's City Hall.

The protesters claim the weapon is deadly and authorities using it target ethnic minorities more frequently than whites.

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"Our community and the African-American community are getting tased and getting killed by these taser guns," New Mexico's LULAC district director Ralph Arellanes said.

There have been 437 stun-gun deaths nationwide since the weapon was introduced in 2000, according to statistics compiled by LULAC, which is the nation's largest Hispanic civil-rights organization.

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after being shot with stun gun darts by the Tucamari Police Chief.

they should be banned and banned from public.

I said at the beginning men would use them on women and children

the paper is from Colorado.

That's why I put New Mexico in parentheses.

I'll take real science.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071008080329.htm

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center?

Maybe, before assuming the worst, you should look them up first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Forest_University_Baptist_Medical_Center
http://www1.wfubmc.edu/visitors/About+the+Medical+Center/History.htm

Not exactly a fly-by-night, "The BUY-bull is the BESTEST medicine" operation.

That study didn't address abuse of authority, though, did it?

There's almost a million law enforcement officers in the US. It's a pretty safe bet that some of them are going to abuse authority and use whatever tools they have improperly (including guns). But that is a separate question from whether tasers are or aren't safe and if they should or should not be deployed.