In the article and video below, the 76 year old man was tasered by police followed up by pepper spray. This man could have been shoot, but instead a form of non lethal self defense was employed…
Police entered a home on Field Street in Coweta County to find Frank Gates Sr., 76, wielding a machete and grabbing a man by the shirt, Channel 2 Action News reported. Gates was repeatedly asked to put the machete down, and when he didn’t an officer reached for his Taser to get him to comply, — Read More
Being an Escrima instructor and training in the use of a machete myself, I can attest to the danger of injury this man posed to both himself and the officers. It does give you some insight into both the workings of a taser in action and how pepper spray can disable an attacker.