Another death by 'non-lethal' Taser

January 10, 10:22 AMLibertarian ExaminerTrevor Bothwell

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Virginia State Police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old boy who was shocked with a Taser by a Martinsville police officer.
 
The incident happened Thursday night, when Officer R.L. Wray was responding to a call for a possible fight at a duplex in the 300 block of Rives Road, according to a news release from Martinsville police.
 
Inside the apartment, the 17-year-old "moved rapidly toward Officer Wray in an offensive stance," the press release said.

The report doesn't indicate how "offensively" the boy was moving toward the officer, and we'll likely never know because the word of police officers may as well be sent from on high -- if the police merely say they feel "threatened," it's basically ipso facto legal justification for using lethal force.

But what really matters is that yet another person is dead, executed by the state absent judge and jury, at the hands of police wielding deadly weapons that they (and their enablers) insist on passing off as "non-lethal."