My "mini"-Taser experience

Last year, I received a call from Arizona company "Taser International", seemingly referred through unknown source to do a demo at ISF (Idriss Stelley Foundation). Although it gave me a good laugh, since SF was looking into making a 1.2 million purchase for it's PD department, I invited them, as well as Malaika Parker from Bay Area Police Watch.

The "Men in Black" as they call themselves (... makes sense, youngish suits, who went, from their own account, from "men in Blue" to a more lucrative position in the private sector), then proceeded to a full demonstration.

I told Sandra-Juanita Cooper (former CO-director of ISF) and Malaika that one of us should be tased to know exactly what we would be talking about when reporting back to the community. Neither one of them was willing to be subjected to it, so I volunteered.

We all too well have experienced the painful jolt received when touching a faulty 110 V lamp, or the wrenching pain of touching 220 V... Imagine 54,000 going through your body. Although 2 of their legitimized thugs were holding me, when a 3rd one tased me throughout the right thigh, I collapsed in unbelievable pain that truly "shocked" me...and collapsed on the floor unable to move. The pain disappeared after about 10 seconds, and muscle control was then regained. I noticed that the impact burnt a hole in my jeans, and my right leg kept twitching off and on for a couple of days, slight bleeding and bruising, and a substantial increase of my diabetic peripheral neuropathy in the right leg, that has not improve ever since.

These idiots told me "You have balls for a woman" as they left... no comment on my part, since I was at the time thinking of the victims repeatedly tased to unconsciousness or death.

Fortunately the Taser budget was not approved in SF, until next time.