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       Editor and prime reporter is Doug Terry, a veteran television and radio reporter in   Washington, DC, (details below)

“...witnesses told him that the deputy slammed his son to the ground. His son was Tasered about eight times by two deputies, said Jack Kephart, who dismissed assertions that his son was combative with the deputies.”

There is a collection of youtube videos on use and misuse of TASERS on the link just below.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=taser&aq=f

Here is a friendly little tutorial, apparently written at the fourth grade level, on TASERS from the company website. The links included are live links.

How a TASER® ECD Works

Learn How!

• What Is Electricity?
• Jamming the Nervous System

How does a TASER ECD Work?

First, let’s start with the basics:

Electricity is a flow of energy, or more specifically a flow of electric charge within a conductor. That conductor can be a copper wire, or it can be the human body. Much like water flows through a pipe, electrons flow through a wire. When we measure electricity, there are two key measures – Voltage, measured in Volts, and Current, measured in Amperes.

Voltage, which is also called Electro-Motive Force, is similar to the pressure in a water hose. The voltage provides the “pressure” to push an electric current through the wire.

Current is the measure of the actual flow of electricity – how many electrons are actually flowing through the wire.

In our analogy to flowing water, voltage is like pressure, measured in pounds per square inch. Current is the flow rate, similar to gallons per second in our water analogy.

By way of analogy, let’s compare a waterfall to rainfall. The pressure or voltage behind each droplet of water in the waterfall is actually a lot less than for each rain drop  because the rain drop is falling from a much greater height. So, the “voltage” of this waterfall is much less than for rain. However, the rate of flow or "current" for the waterfall is much, much higher than for the rain, which falls in small droplets separated in space and time compared to the continuous flow of the waterfall. Standing under the waterfall would certainly be a very dangerous place to be, much more so than in the rain. Similarly, being exposed to a high current electrical current, like the one out of your wall outlet, can be very dangerous, even at moderate voltages like 110 volts. Exposure to high voltage, low current shocks, such as a static discharge on a dry day, is far less dangerous. Static shocks regularly exceed 30,000 volts, yet they deliver very low amounts of electric charge, and there has never been a reported injury directly from the effects of a static shock, although there have been some secondary injuries from people who were surprised and may have fallen, etc.

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