When your racket is shilling weapons, it’s awful hard to find good product placement. But Minnesota-based Taser International has found a ready market in St. Paul, where the police department has purchased 230 of Taser’s non-lethal stun guns for this summer’s Republican National Convention. Minnesota Independent’s Molly Priesmeyer looks at how fear and politics have given Taser International a big jolt in the weapons market.
Fear and Tasering in St. Paul
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