This reporter is branded an “INVESTIGATOR”.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/true-crime-scene/charlie-bezzina-says-the-test-on-police-using-tasers-is-justifying-their-actions/story-fnat7a38-1226304467884
This is the propaganda, where the writer is telling the reader what to think, “The recent tragic death of a man in Sydney must not detract from the impending issue of Tasers to Victoria Police members in the coming months.” What he’s saying is ignore the death of this man because it cannot be allowed to impede tasers (note the needless capitalizations) being issued to VicPol.
It goes on to say, “The potential for death can never be discounted.” Like in the very paragraph above this one.
Then we have this piece of cognitive dissonance: “But police officers are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.”
That is clearly false because they are only damned if they needlessly kill someone.
The dissonance continues with this fantasy, “The Crimes Act (1958) Section 462A states:
“A person may use such force not disproportionate to the objective as he believes on reasonable grounds to be necessary to prevent the commission, continuance or completion of an indictable offence or to effect or assist in effecting the lawful arrest of a person committing or suspected of committing any offence.”
“The test for a police officer is the same as any other member of the community. At the end of the day, each member must still justify his/her actions.”
Another blatant lie. Other members of the community are barred from owning or possessing effective means of self-defense, even tasers, that are assumed to send non-government agents into a maniacal shooting rampage.
In summary what Charlie Bezzina is saying comes down to three things: Police can kill people if they think they need to, they can do this because they are protecting you, and you can do it too (if you were only allowed). What a disingenuous shill as ought to be expected given the source of this article.