I guess this was going to happen sooner or later. The Korean National Police is looking into using Tasers to subdue violent demonstrators.
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Korean Police to Use Tasers?
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Don’t Tase me 형!
don’t tase me bro!
Uh oh, wrong toy for KNP. There would be many incidents by wrongful use of it by KNP.
#1 - You beat me to it! Damn you!
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.
#1 beat me too it too, waited too long to press the post button I guess.
using tasers during a demonstration is probably the worst time to use one.
There is nothing wrong with water canons.
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
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.
Today’s 초등 학생 학원 bullies are tomorrow’s 시청 demonstrators. Might as well get them started on the taser training early.
Yeah, I guess tasers would be better. Them young handsome men in costumes won’t look as cool if there were using pepper spray.
What’s wrong with tear gas?
It’s about time.
I wonder what being tazed feels like?
“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.
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?