Posted AT 8:36 PM EDT on 09/05/08
Penknife alert
A San Francisco heart specialist told a judicial inquiry on tasers yesterday in British Columbia that these weapons can produce a fatal rhythm in the heart. At the same time, the RCMP is insisting it had no other choice when it used the taser three times on an 82-year-old man in a B.C. hospital – a man with heart problems – because he wouldn't let go of a penknife. If the cardiologist is right, the RCMP must be wrong.
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