The Beat Goes On: Torture, Tasers and American Tradition
Another day, another citizen killed by a police Taser. From the SF Chronicle: A man in his 20s died after a struggle with San Jose police during which he was jolted with a Taser, police said Thursday. The man, whose name was not immediately released, died in the backyard of a home on the 2200 block of Amador Drive in east San Jose after being jolted with the stun gun, said Officer Enrique Garcia. Police had chased him there after trying to detain him a short distance away. They jolted him after a violent struggle in which they also clubbed