{"id":195126,"date":"2008-07-28T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/28\/taser-death-heads-to-grand-jury\/"},"modified":"2008-07-28T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:49:00","slug":"taser-death-heads-to-grand-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/28\/taser-death-heads-to-grand-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Taser Death Heads to Grand Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it now appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/CRIME\/07\/28\/taser.death\/index.html\">Taser murder investigation is heading toward a grand jury<\/a> (background <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/so-now-we-have-first-murder-by-taser.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I do not expect an indictment.  This is a dead black man, and the ex-cop who Tasered him 9 times <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">after<\/span> he was in handcuffs, Scott Nugent, has little to fear from a Louisiana jury.<\/p>\n<p>Even if it goes to trial, you can expect Taser International to supply tens of thousands of dollars in expert testimony to the defendant saying that a Taser can&#8217;t kill, because they know what happens if they get tagged with one death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it now appears that the Taser murder investigation is heading toward a grand jury (background here). I do not expect an indictment. This is a dead black man, and the ex-cop who Tasered him 9 times after he was in handcuffs, Scott Nugent, has little to fear from a Louisiana jury. Even if it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,972,1041,1001,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-racism","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}