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Jan 23, 2020
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Re: Should the city of Palo Alto ban Tasers?

I agree with Dr Aram James JD about tasers’ in Palo Alto impropriety. This is Silicon Valley not Torquemada. Mark B Weiss Palo Alto January 22, 2020 Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 22, 2020, at 1:30 AM, Aram James > > 1/22/2020 > > Hi Folks, > > I’m hoping to persuade the Palo Alto City Council to re-examine the need for Tasers in Palo Alto. I’m requesting that the Taser issue .... be one of the council’s priority issues in 2020. > > Since the introduction of Tasers in Palo Alto... a growing body of evidence suggests that Tasers are much more dangerous then originally thought. > > In September of 2014.... I was invited to speak as part of a panel on whether Berkeley’s police should be allowed to purchase an use Tasers. As part of my presentation.... I discussed my own experience with the same issue in Palo Alto back in 2007. > > My presentation was a brief 13 minutes or so... but covered many of the key issues the PA City Council ... and the community at large.... should take into consideration when > deciding whether Taser are no longer needed in Palo Alto (see the link to my presentation below). > > Sincerely, > > Aram James > > > Check out this video on YouTube: > > https://youtu.be/zxRyBZjY46s > > > Sent from my iPhone Received on Wed Jan 22 2020 - 17:35:51 PST