Minnesota Police Stock Up On Tasers Before Republican National Convention

Minnesota Monitor:

The St. Paul Police Department is requesting 230 Tasers to outfit the all of the department's officers with the electroshock weapon, Fox 9 News reports. The SPPD will purchase the Tasers with $210,000 collected from drug raids. The St. Paul City Council will have to approve the purchase.

The purchase is expected to arrive in St. Paul just in time for the Republican National Convention prompting media speculation that the weapons are being purchased specifically for the convention. When asked by Fox 9 News whether the police will use the weapon at the convention particularly against protesters, police spokester Tom Walsh said, "Our hope is that no one will have to use any degree of force. If it becomes necessary, will that be one of the tools available to them? I suppose that's safe to say."

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Comments

[calfacon]

But they don’t cause (usually) permanent damage of lasting pain – can’t be torture. Frightening how we are being slowly inured to torture. Starts out on the other side of the world in Iraq [play initial revulsion]; moves to the southern end of Cuba [play disgust] where it morphs into “enhanced interrogation”; and now in our own country it becomes simply a “tool” for the police. What in the name of god is happening to this country?

[Ramirez]

Yeah. The police should have stuck with clubs and guns.

It's Bush's fault.

[incontempt]

Expecting alot of GOP love are we? LOL