Experts explain: How does an officer use a gun instead of a Taser?
Josh Cascio reports
While extremely rare, incidents like this one have happened before. If you look at a lot of SWAT-operator folks, they normally wear their Taser on their thighs and firearm on their hip. While you’re still using muscle memory, you re going to reach deeper down to grab the Taser than higher up, explained Peter Massey, a teacher in the criminology department at USF St. Petersburg.
Daunte Wright police shooting body camera video released
Officials released the body camera video Monday of Sunday s deadly police shooting of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said it was an accidental discharge, that the officer who shot Wright had intended to reach for her taser, but discharged her handgun instead.