Korean Police to Use Tasers?

by mins0306 on January 14, 2008

I guess this was going to happen sooner or later. The Korean National Police is looking into using Tasers to subdue violent demonstrators.

{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }

1 nosaj100 January 15, 2008 at 12:26 am: Don’t Tase me 형!
2 cmm January 15, 2008 at 12:29 am: don’t tase me bro!
3 JiMong January 15, 2008 at 5:41 am: Uh oh, wrong toy for KNP. There would be many incidents by wrongful use of it by KNP.
4 The Metropolitician January 15, 2008 at 7:15 am: #1 – You beat me to it! Damn you!
5 globalvillageidiot January 15, 2008 at 8:06 am: Maybe not such great news for minorities arriving at Incheon International – or for foreigners being “uppity” in public – but not a bad development when it comes to the police dealing with lead pipe wielding, ball bearing slingshot shooting, molotov cocktail throwing thugs on the street. Can’t say I’d feel too bad about seeing some of those guys flopping around like fish outside Seoul Station on a nice spring day.
6 cmm January 15, 2008 at 8:10 am: #1 beat me too it too, waited too long to press the post button I guess.
7 chiamattt January 15, 2008 at 11:23 am: using tasers during a demonstration is probably the worst time to use one.

There is nothing wrong with water canons.
8 mcnut January 15, 2008 at 12:08 pm: i have seen the police beaten and attacked with beer and soju bottles and the police dont take the jerks down they continue to mediate and appease

what would happen is a dunk addushi would take the taser away and incapaciate the police officers on many occasions
9 mins0306 January 15, 2008 at 1:03 pm: what would happen is a dunk addushi would take the taser away and incapaciate the police officers on many occasions

There’s a good chance of that happening. As for the drunk ajusshi, I guess he will get away at first and after a manhunt lasting several weeks, turn himself him at the nearest police station and state his remorse for the situation while draped with a jacket.
10 whitey January 15, 2008 at 1:24 pm: Today’s 초등 학생 학원 bullies are tomorrow’s 시청 demonstrators. Might as well get them started on the taser training early.
11 littlebrownasian January 15, 2008 at 8:04 pm: Yeah, I guess tasers would be better. Them young handsome men in costumes won’t look as cool if there were using pepper spray.
12 SomeguyinKorea January 16, 2008 at 4:39 pm: What’s wrong with tear gas?
13 Mizar5 January 19, 2008 at 6:07 am: It’s about time.
14 Netizen Kim January 19, 2008 at 6:41 am: I wonder what being tazed feels like?
15 globalvillageidiot January 19, 2008 at 9:03 am: “What’s wrong with tear gas?”

Too many innocent bystanders get nailed. I got gassed a few times here in ’96 and ’97. Wasn’t very pleasant. (In addition to tearing up, I couldn’t stop sneezing for about an hour.) Once I was taking pictures of a riot in Myeongdong one night – and admittedly should not have been there – but the other two times I can remember involved walking down the street in the middle of the afternoon and innocently stumbling upon a small demo in progress. Lots of other people – high school kids, the elderly, mothers with their children – were feeling it, and doing their best to duck into stores and coffee shops to escape the gas.
16 Zonath January 19, 2008 at 10:55 am: Tasers are all well and good for stopping an attacker one-on-one, but I wonder how well they’ll perform a crowd control function. After all, don’t demonstrators usually outnumber police by a fairly hefty margin at these things?