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[Yurt]

LA authorities plan to use heat-beam ray in jail

LOS ANGELES – A device designed to control unruly inmates by blasting them with a beam of intense energy that causes a burning sensation is drawing heat from civil rights groups who fear it could cause serious injury and is "tantamount to torture."

LA authorities plan to use heat-beam ray in jail - Yahoo! News

not sure it is torture, at least any less than bean bag bullets etc....

 

[Ozmar]

What is torture anyway? Some people say spanking your kids is torture. Everyone gets their panties in a wad over the most mundane of things. These are criminals, and they don't deserve much in the way of mercy if they want to act up.

 

[eots]

Cops and guards have no balls anymore..mace and clubs I say ! ,all this technology takes the sport out of it..like the shooting fish in a barrel syndrome..too easy