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Members of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality are all charged up by last week's announcement that the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners approved the use of Tasers by Detroit cops.
The proposal, introduced by Detroit Police Chief James Craig, would allow officers to carry the weapons, which typically stun people with a five-second, 50,000-volt shock.
Officially classified as a "non-lethal" weapon, Tasers can kill. Taser use has been cited as a factor in hundreds of deaths in just the last two decades.…