I think this was disproved. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/capitol-riot-taser-death/

Thanks for the link. It is disheartening and disappointing that some people decided to create an imagined instance of narrated mockery of a dead person by spreading a rumour/lie that he had died ‘tazing himself in the balls repeatedly’ causing distress to his bereaved family.

Stripping a deceased person of their dignity via caricature is really a new low. This truly beggars belief and makes me very very sad. I hope the family finds peace.

I certainly agree that it's disappointing that people will so readily believe false and humiliating stories about somebody they don't like.

But describing it as "a new low" against the background of a violent disruption of Congress, with the intent of interfering with the peaceful transition of power... that's not a phrase I'd have thought to use. The mockery is disgusting and disappointing, as is the gullibility of its spread, but both are very common. The violence, by contrast, is genuinely novel.

> The violence, by contrast, is genuinely novel.

The violence is not ‘genuinely novel’. We certainly saw many instances of creative ways of violent destruction in protests by the other side in 2020.

Anyways...my 2c. Ymmv.

If they weren't carrying Biden flags then they're not "the other side".

A joke in poor taste, yes.

However, his social media posts before traveling to DC were enough to strip him of any dignity he may have had.

i havent seen his social media posts. what did they say?

> Stripping a deceased person of their dignity via caricature is really a new low.

Its a low, but I don’t think its actually new, and not very uncommon in situations where there are both strongly divisive emotions and people dying.

can you give another example?

That always sounded like nonsense to me. It doesn't seem likely that a medical practitioner would have specifically reached that assessment and publicly released the information so soon after the event.