Here at Tweed we receive lots of press releases announcing Really Big Events that are happening on college campuses — so many that sometimes we don’t actually get around to reading them until after the events have passed. Occasionally this fills us with regret.
Take, for example, this release, which landed in our e-mailbox last Friday (italics supplied for emphasis):
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Electrifying Media Alert: OCU Police are Juiced Up for Taser Training at 10 a.m. TODAY Oklahoma City University police officers will be “riding the lightning” at 10 a.m. today as they undergo Taser certification training. The training session will consist of the legal, safety and specific use of Tasers and every officer in training must be shocked at least once. … Taser exposures are scheduled to take place at about 10 a.m. The session is open to reporters and photographers. |
We knew that colleges had been increasingly wary of Tasers ever since campus police officers zapped students at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2006 (video here) and at the University of Florida in 2007 (video here). But this is the first time we’ve heard of a college asking its cops to actually take one for the team.
So, we found ourselves asking, is there video of the Oklahoma City University training? Oh yeah, there’s video. And if you’ll pardon us for saying so, it’s shocking. (Ouch. OUCH!). —Don Troop
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