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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by spacechild1 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:29PM (#27609882)
> Tasered is not torture, else surely cops wouldn't use it?

You know, a cop would taser you once for a few seconds. That poor guy got tasered repeatedly, including his genitalia. How is this not torture?

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by Miner49er on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:39PM (#27610022)
> You know, a cop would taser you once for a few seconds.

Most of the time. Cops are known to torture people with tasers in the US by using them for long periods of time or repeatedly.

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by panopticon on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @05:04PM (#27610345)
And on the genitalia too. There was that Chicago police squad that tortured suspects with a cattle prod to the testicles to coerce confessions.
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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by spacechild1 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:28PM (#27612398)
Found an article: https://www.npr.org/2015/12/08/458926584/with-chicago-police...

That's just horrible...

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