Tasers saving lifes

TV3 reports:

A man has been tasered and arrested after setting fire to a house and throwing accelerant over police in the Auckland suburb of Glenfield today.

Police were called to the house about midday after reports of the man, a family member, damaging the building and vehicles with a pole. When they arrived, they saw him assaulting family members, having set fires inside the house and in the backyard, senior sergeant Mark Fergus said.

“When police staff approached the male, he began spreading accelerant around the home and threw accelerant over police. He then ran back inside the house.”

Other family members were taken from the house and a police cordon set up with the man inside.

Shortly after, the man came out of the house with a lighter in his hand which he refused to put down. He was tasered when he moved away from the accelerant, and arrested.

Think of how this would have ended without a taser.

Could well have had one or more people set alight.

Or the man shot dead.

The availability of the taser helped resolve the situation with no loss of life.

Yet the Greens still oppose them.