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  that's one smart five year old son
context: What are they supposed to do when someone is constantly moving around like that and trying to run away? I’m not condoning what happened. I just want to know what were they supposed to do protocol-wise? Or what shouldve be done in a situation like that to avoid him dying? >
  
  He was moving but the taser also clearly has a function to beep when being used too long and the office continues using it while beeping for 3 seconds, stops 1 second for it to stop beeping and then uses the taser past the beeping again immediately.  He isn't allowing any time for the heart to return to normal in between uses. The guy is on the ground, the taser was used to make it easier for the three officers to handcuff him, not because any of them were in danger >
  
  But he wasn’t in cardiac arrest after the taser use for some time. 
  There’s also a whole lung between where he was tased and his heart. 
  I’m not sure this was because of the taser. >
  
  What? So they put a tremendous amount of stress on his heart and a few hours later his heart finally gave out. Like that’s how it normally goes >
  
  Who said the taser caused the stress? You don’t think it could have been all the fighting with officers that did that? >
  
  Really? This is the angle you’re going for now? Come on. >
  
  Or maybe all those drugs coursing through his veins. >
  
  He was brought to the hospital immediately after being tazed 6 times in 30 seconds. But you’re saying they aren’t related? >
  
  What about “he was brought to the hospital after a 6 minute fight with officers whilst high as fuck on a speedball”…? Have you even watched the video… the guy is off his nut. 
  Also what’s the time limit where we say it’s not the tasers fault? A day? An hour? A week? 
  If a taser caused the cardiac arrest, the loss of consciousness would have been almost instant - it would have caused fibrillation, which would have you out cold in seconds. 
  It’s fucking nonsense, but because he’s the brother of the cousin of the aunties daughters boyfriend…. who also founded BLM, it’s “ooooo the police killed him oooooo riot time”. 
  How about next time don’t fight with officers lawfully detaining you? Then you might not fucking die. Hows that. >
  
  This title is silly - the family on behalf, the guardian, whatever adult in the room overseeing his care is “seeking it”. That’s a child and that child would not be seeking $50M.
  Regardless of it being done on his behalf, the title is silly. >
  
  "If you Taser someone with 50,000 watts of electrical energy six times”
  50kW? Where on earth they’re pulling these numbers from? That’s the equivalent to 50 microwaves. >
  
  asking lay people to know the difference between volts and watts is a losing battle >
  
  Pikachu can zap with 50000 volts. It can kill an elephant! >
  
  Yeah, presumably Pikachu uses more than the couple of milliamps a taser does >
  
  This comment section will quickly turn into those who watched the video and those who didn't >
  
  Absolutely. Not to mention the general anti-police opinion on reddit. Watching the entire police released video is quite a bit different than whats painted in this article. >
  
  Did you watch it then?
  what do you say about police intentionally ignoring and disabling the “WARNING” beep from the taser?
  You know, the warning beep that is there to warn you if you use the taser for too long. Because using it for too long can cause heart damage and cardiac arrest.
  maybe you know the policy on taser use?
  
  According to LAPD policy, the duration of a Taser activation on a suspect is five seconds.
  
  or 
  
  the Police Executive Research Forum state that exposure longer than 15 seconds (whether continuous or cumulative) may increase the risk of serious injury or death and should be avoided
  
  Huh. I guess you didn’t watch it. Calling out police misconduct makes you “anti-cop”!! >
  
  Taser warning alarms aren't necessarily based on medical evidence. The patient didn't die from arrythmia caused by the taser, so this is irrelevant. They died likely from arrythmia caused by overwhelming physical stress, mostly 2/2 cocaine use, probably taser contributing, and certainly struggling with the police for a prolonged period was equally damaging. >
  
  
  The patient didn't die from arrythmia caused by the taser, so this is irrelevant.
  
  but then
  
  probably taser contributing
  
  So which is it? >
  
  The taser didn't put him into an arrhythmia. Most of the cases of taser related death occur due to acute arrhythmia (IE, happens immediately) in a susceptible individual. There was no acute arrhythmia. He likely died from cardiac arrhythmia 4 hours later after the heart was massively stressed from drugs as well as the entire episode on video, with his fighting being a more prominent contributor than the taser. Yeah, the taser stresses the heart, but so does fighting 5 officers for like 10 minutes.