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TASER™: "We stand with the African American community."
- Thread starter DiipuSurotu
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I wonder what TASER™'s "technology that helps eradicate racism and excessive force" is. Maybe a giant robot that destroys their own factories?
Strap it to cops' balls and turn it on when it detects systemic racism
I didn't know Axon made TASER. Louisville Metro PD uses Axon body cams, if I'm not mistaken. Well, uses them when they're not turned off, that is.
Yes, they're one of the bigger (if not biggest) makers of body cams. They make technology to cause chaos and monitor it!
WTF? what's next? Colt tweeting, "black lives matter, M16 is with you". Come on, this can't be real. Is like a black mirror episode.
$$$$. Probably just want people to know that even if cops get defunded and their stock go down as a result of less taser guns, that investors should know they are coming up with new shit, so keep the money flowing. Their stock is the highest it has been in a year. Why else would they think the public would care what TASER's stance on BLM is?
Huh. I read this headline and assumed Taser was a band or something. Glad they're speaking up because everyone has to - I do wonder if Tasers have on balance been a force for good relative to bullets - probably impossible to properly measure - but I imagine there's a ton of data that says, "Tasers have killed a lot of (African American ) people - but reduced the number of people who would have been killed"
The flipside could be that Tasers have caused much more escalatory arrests and incidents. There's no doubt that the intention of Tasers could bviewed as positive - but it's ultimately still a weapon that is abused and can kill.
The flipside could be that Tasers have caused much more escalatory arrests and incidents. There's no doubt that the intention of Tasers could bviewed as positive - but it's ultimately still a weapon that is abused and can kill.
Lmao we really are at the point of saturation with these company statements that every one of them feels like they need to put something out no matter how ridiculous it sounds
This guy did a Reddit ask me anything some time back that might be interesting for people to look at:
www.reddit.com
Reddit - Dive into anything
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Maybe it's tasers that explode in the cops hand whenever they do something racist!
If I remember correctly, on a Vergecast once, Smith once said their long-term goal is to make guns that doesn't kill or something like that.
This guy did a Reddit ask me anything some time back that might be interesting for people to look at:
Reddit - Dive into anything
Having watched him speak at last year's Axon conference, the dude seemed sincere about eliminating law enforcement's reliance on guns. It's a techbro approach to the problems in American policing and I don't fully agree with it of course, but at this point the situation is so dire that we probably can't afford to toss out solutions. Axon has done a lot of good with body cameras. Tasers less so (they still cause deaths and are technically less-lethal rather than non-lethal).
Of course this is good business for them. Axon grown vastly due to the widespread community push for body cameras by BLM and others, so there's obviously a profit angle here too.
Cops kneeling in solidarity with protestors (before doing more police brutality on them).