Soon after Mason's taser death, the ACLU, Vermont Legal Aid, mental health advocacy groups, and others called for a state moratorium on tasers at least until all police armed with tasers were fully trained in appropriate taser use. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, a Democrats, together with Attorney General Sorrell and state police officials, all rejected the idea of a moratorium out of hand, without giving it much deliberation. An online petition supporting a moratorium had 1,217 signatures as of January 29, including that of former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, also a Democrat.
Nobody said it would be easy to get justice for a dead man, especially a poor dead
man, especially a poor dead artist with epilepsy who was tasered to death by a Vermont State trooper in June 2012, but at least Vermont's Governor, Vermont's Attorney General, and the Vermont State Police are helping to make it harder than it should be.
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