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taser, taser, taser! reporter: it was the difference between life and death. 20-year-old daunte wright killed in april after brooklyn center police officer kimberly potter grabbed the wrong weapon from her belt. the officer had the intention to deploy their taser but instead shot mr. wright where a single bullet. now, facing up to 15 years in prison for manslaughter. with many still asking how could this have happened? this is a taser. this is a taser. but no, my nephew was killed with this a glock. hey, good morning, josh. reporter: to find out how some officers are trained, we visited the los angeles police department, which has made its taser policy more strict in recent years. lapd had a 23% reduction in the use of the taser deployment. we are only going to use that taser when the suspect s actions are violent. reporter: still, they are a critical tool meant to provide officers with a less-lethal way
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he has stopped gray at this time. the information we have is that mr. gray gave up without the use of force. there was an officer attempting to stop officer gray that took his taser out, preparatory using it but never deployed the taser. that has been verified by downloading the information on the taser and also by the physical evidence on mr. gray s body. the lack of taser deployment. at 8:42:52, a wagon is requested for transport. at that point, mr. gray asks for an inhaler. at approximately 0:8:46:02, the describer of the van, of the transport van, believes that mr.
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