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in less than an hour, johannes mehserle could walk out of the los angeles county jail a free man. he is the former bart officer viced of shooting and killing a man on a bart platform two years ago. it's expected jail officials will release him some time between midnight and very early tomorrow morning. tonight in oakland, hundreds of people protested. nbc bay area's monte francis is in downtown oakland with that story for us. monte? >> reporter: diane, good evening. business owners had feared that there would be violence and looting tonight, so they boarded up their windows, just in ...

we found about six shootings per 100,000 arrests, which doubled in that first year of taser use. it came back near the baseline after that first year. but shooting stubble. one possibility is that with liberal use of tasers, confrontations escalated until lethal force was necessary. i will be the first to admit that this particular outcome -- we did not have the power to measure this outcome. only four cities provided data on officer injuries. nevertheless, we did not see a decrease in officer injuries. what is the summary of our research? there is a definitive risk for lethal arrhyt...

being shot with ceds for nonviolent interactions with the police. examples include a mentally ill teenager who died after being shocked repeatedly while he was naked and lying on the floor of a jail. a young medical doctor crashed his car after he had an epileptic seizure. he was repeatedly shocked at the roadside for refusing to comply with commands. amnesty international considers use of electric shock weapons contrary to international standards that require police to use force only as a last resort, in proportion to the threat posed, and in a matter -- manner designed to minimize ...

preemptively, at the first sign of even minor resistance. furthermore, our study found that because ceds are often seen as nonlethal, they are often used as a weapon of first rather than last resort. the have become less an alternative to firearms and deadly force, rather than an alternative to less intensive techniques. in the 2008 study, amnesty international found that of the 334 persons who died following ced use, the vast majority of individuals, roughly 90%, or not carrying a weapon of any sort. many did not appear to present a serious threat when they were electroshocked. far ...

officers with a weapon that is in our opinion unsafe and prone to overuse. thank you. [applause] >> we have some new commissioners. you said they were not controlled and are untested. can you explain what you mean by that? >> part of the issue that has been documented in our report, which did do a fairly comprehensive survey of the type of medical evidence and other reports out there, is that there does not seem to be any independent, comprehensive, unbiased study out there that documents the concerns around tasers. there is still concerns around how people from certain vulnerable po...