comment on any ongoing litigation. but in a court filing seeking to dismiss the suit, the firm said the taser devices, quote, are repeatedly proven safe through testing, including on human volunteers in controlled medically approved studies, and there s no evidence tasering of people induces cardiac arrest. the company has significantly changed its recommendations for how tasers should be used. taser put out a directive last year telling the tens of thousands of police officers who use the device to no longer aim for the chest area. instead, they should go for the back, the legs or the lower pelvis. taser says the reason in its words has less to do with safety and more to do with risk management for law enforcement agencies. as for steve butler. how are we doing? pretty good. reporter: he doesn t dispute he was drunk. he blames taser for what happened to him. he says he s not frustrated or even angry, just resigned trying to spend the rest of his life trying to remember what
and there is no evidence tasering of people induces cardiac arrest. but the company has significantly changed its recommendations for how tasers should be used. taser put out a directive last year telling the tens of thousands of police officers who used the device to no longer aim for the chest area. instead they should go for the back, the leg or the lower pelvis. but cops aren t trained to do that. they re trained to go for the biggest target area: the chest. reporter: even taser supporters who say any death by tasers are rare realize officers nationwide will have to change their thinking. with a firearm, we teach people to shoot center mass. we want to shoot the largest portion of the body, the center. the torso area, this area right here. so their instinct is to go for center mass, and when they pull the taser, they have to recalibrate their thinking instantly. it s a training process that we have been trained to do so. with a taser, we re obviously