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A YOUNG woman screams in pain and falls from the open door of her SUV onto the tarmac. Seconds earlier, a Florida traffic cop had fired his Taser stun gun at her, delivering a 50,000-volt shock and leaving her convulsing in agony on the roadside.

Her crime? After being pulled over for speeding, she had insisted on making a cellphone call instead of getting out of the car when told to do so.

Video footage of this event shocked many delegates at Jane’s Less-Lethal Weapons Conference in Leeds, UK, last month. But the footage soon got even worse. A…

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