KPIX KPIX 5 News At 5PM November 4, 2017
Special Police Committee meeting that just got underway. Officials are to vote on whether San Francisco officers should be armed with stun guns. For months now police chief William Scott has been pushed to get tasers into officers hands. He believes it gives them another less lethal option when trying to subdue a suspect, but protesters who are outside city hall right now think tasers are a bad idea. Unfortunately tasers are deadly. They do kill and they dont actually reduce incidences of shooting. So we think its really a step back from the deescalation and crisis intervention training the po...