The controversy over the use of tasers revived after the death of the Buenos Aires City police officer, Maribel Salazar, murdered by a man who seized her service pistol and fired three shots at her, and in the middle of the discussion, the Minister of Security of the Nation, Aníbal Fernández, said that “the executive will buy more units for use by special groups”.
Aníbal Fernández expressed his position in favor of the use of non-lethal weapons, “only for the special groups GEOP, and G1 of the Federal Police and eventually, with Albatross and Alacranes in the Prefecture and Gendarmerie”, he claimed. By way of example, he said that when the troops carry out a search, there are confrontations and in those cases “with a taser gun They can try to stop the situation without having to take someone’s life.”
The Minister of Security of the City of Buenos Aires, Alejandro D’Alessandro, demanded that the national government make a decision on the use of the tasersthat “they are a key tool to care for people”, and they are used by most of the countries in the world.
The Buenos Aires official accused the government of Alberto Fernández of “political meanness” for not allowing the use of non-lethal weapons by force in the city, and wondered: “How many tragedies are we going to have to regret because of this ridiculous whim? How far will this irresponsibility of wanting to screw up the life of the Buenos Aires people go because they don’t vote jets?
Aníbal Fernández insists that “An alternative must be found to define how it should be used” because special groups with a Taser can put a person in a box without hurting themhe affirmed, but once again ruled out the use of this type of weapons by the City or Buenos Aires Police.
