- 28 days
The law says jails and police have a “duty to care” for those in their custody, which would include being aware of, and sensitive to, any medical conditions you might have. So, in fact, yes.
However, police, jails, and those responsible for overseeing them have more than demonstrated their willingness to ignore what the law plainly says. So, in practice, it depends.
- 28 days
Always wear a large sign on your back (they taser always from behind), saying:
“Do not taser!
Heart condition!”That will make them taser you twice as good, so it is over quickly.
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28 daysThe sign being metal would probably provide a low-impedance path for the electricity to flow around your body instead of through it. It would function similarly to a faraday cage.
- vrek@programming.devEnglish28 days
Maybe it would work if you wore like a shirt so the only parts contacting your body was your shoulders, ensuring amperage goes across your heart…
- corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish28 days
Depends.
Non-US? Maybe.
US? Does your estate have a reeeally good lawyer? No? Then no.
- 28 days
The answer to questions about law always depend on what country you are talking about.
- 28 days
Anything goes in this bizarre new world. Cops’ll kick the shit out of you on the street and then be very careful you don’t hit your head when putting you in their car.
- 27 days
Nothing bizarre about it, if anything we are returning to normal operations after about 80 yrs of having it okayish
Why am I being tasered?
This question needs to be answered before any meaningful conclusion can be made. If I am being tasered by cops to stop me from unjustifiably harming you, responsibility for that tasering falls on me, not you, nor the cops protecting you.
If I am being tasered for no good reason, responsibility falls on the taserer.
- 27 days
If I am being tasered for no good reason, responsibility falls on the taserer.
The cops will investigate themselves and declare that they did nothing wrong. If you died due to your heart condition then you should have thought about that before being around cops.
- Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.appEnglish28 days
Probably not, sadly. Depends on jurisdiction of course. In the US qualified immunity means if they can argue they used the minimum amount of force needed to control the situation they will likely be found to have used appropriate force, even if they knew it could be particularly harmful to you.
If they’re just going around tasing people just for the fun of it then yeah I guess they’d be responsible. But if you’re shivving inmates and throwing around prison napalm and shit and they end up tasing you, too bad
