LAWRENCE, Kan. - After the recent UCLA incident where a student was tazored in a local library, a controversy is drawn on whether or not police officers are being trained on how to properly use the weapon in certain situations.
Just recently on Tuesday at Quinton's Bar & Deli (after closing hours) such a case arouses curiosity on whether or not Lawrence officials are being properly trained on when and where to use their weapon.
Eye witness Evan Horowitz witnessed a case in which officers fired a tazor gun at a young woman of Hispanic decent. "It was crazy; cops were in Quinton’s kicking people out at closing and a woman starting running out the door. She was chased by a cop down Massachusetts Street and shot in the back with a tazor. She dropped and started screaming in pain.”
The University of Kansas Junior, Shawnee Mission, also said that she was not being violent at all but rather she was simply intoxicated and decided to run out the door. This spawns curiosity on whether someone should be tazored for doing something that seems to not need punishment at all, let alone an electric shock from a tazor gun.
Nate Milburn, a Quinton’s bar frequenter on Tuesday nights, was also a witness to this showing. “I thought it was funny at first until I saw the bright blue light on the tazer and the girl go down. She might have been underage, I guess, but that tazor has got to hurt.” Milburn also said that it seemed like the officer could have resulted to other “non-violent measures.”