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Looks like the Taser parties are back on — Taser issued a terse rebuttal to the UN today, finding fault with its conclusion that being hit with a taser is equivalent to torture. Saying that the committee is “out of touch with the reality that confronts law enforcement officers every day worldwide,” Taser also noted that the criteria used to define torture, “extreme pain,” also rules out other common police implements like pepper spray and batons. Like some other reports we’ve seen, Taser says that since their products don’t actually electrocute people, the main danger involved in being struck with a taser is an “unassisted fall,” which seems to us like pretty much the only kind of fall there is — but we’re not getting in the middle of this one. Looks like this is going to be a long fight — everybody got their popcorn?

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