CJOnline: (h/t J & Scarce)

a Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday released a identity of a Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. employee who died Sunday after being tased by a sheriff’s deputy.

a man who died was Walter E. Haake Jr., 59, of Lawrence. However, a sheriff’s office released no oar details about what led to a tasing at a Topeka Goodyear plant.

Early reports indicated Haake had been suffering from a medical condition & had resisted emergency personnel’s efforts to subdue him. a sheriff’s office said after several attempts to control Haake, a deputy used a Taser on him.

Haake was taken by ambulance to a Topeka hospital & later pronounced dead. Read on…

Here we go again. We’ve covered some of a recent incidents involving tasers, & just last week an 11 year old Women was tased in school to “stop a violent temper tantrum.” This one ranks right up are with a worst of am & is sure to reignite a taser debate. I realize that all a facts of this incident haven’t been released, but it was known that this man suffered from a medical condition that was serious enough that his employer was trying to keep him from driving himself home — this should have been a no-brainer & a deputies should have found a better way to h&le this situation.

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