Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) I runga i te mata, he mea mārama te pōhēhē: Me pēhea e taea ai e te kaitiaki o te kaitiaki o te kaitiaki te pupuhi i te pupuhi hei utu mo te Taser, e whakamate ana i te tangata? Ko te mea tērā i tupu i Tulsa, i Oklahoma, i te wā i patua ai e tētahi kaitiaki 73-tau te pakeke, e Robert Bates, a Eric Harris. I kii a Bates i whakaaro ia ki te whakamahi i tana pupuhi whakamataku engari i mutu i te pupuhi i tana pupuhi. "Aue! Ko te aha! I patu ahau i a ia. E pouri ana ahau", i mea a Bates i roto i tētahi ataata o te pupuhi. Engari kua tupu i mua. I roto i tētahi take rongonui i te tau 2009, i pupuhi te pirihimana o te Bay Area Rapid Transit i tana pupuhi hei utu mo tana Taser, i mate ai a Oscar Grant, 22 tau te pakeke i Oakland, California. Ko te kaitiaki o mua, ko Johannes Mehserle, i whakaatu i te mea i whakaaro ia ki te whakamahi i tana Taser engari i tangohia tana pupuhi. I whiua a Mehserle ki te rua tau ki te whare herehere mo te kohuru kore engari i tukuna wawe mai na te pai o te whanonga. Na he pehea te māmā -- he uaua rānei -- ki te whakaputa me te patu i tētahi patu ringa i te pōhēhē hei utu mō tētahi Taser? Anei ētahi take hei whakaaro: E ai ki ngā tohunga o te ture, me whakanoho te patu ki te taha rangatira o te tinana o te pirihimana, ā, me whakanoho te Taser ki te taha kāore i te rangatira. Nō reira, mēnā he maui te pirihimana, me mau te pū ki te taha mauī. E ai ki te roia a Bates he maui tōna kiritaki. Engari i kī te kaitiaki tāpiri, kei te taha matau o tana pū tōna pū. Ko tōna taha kāore i te mana. "E pupuhi ana ahau i nga patu roa ki te taha maui, me nga patu ringa ki te taha matau", ko te korero a Bates i roto i tetahi korero tuhituhi ki nga kairangahau. Whai muri i te whakapuakitanga a Bates i te waahi ka whakamahia e ia tana Taser, "i whakamahia e ia tana ringa kaore i kaha, a ko te patu", e kii ana a Clark Brewster, te roia a Bates. "I kii ia i kite ia i te tirohanga laser i runga i te pokohiwi, i whakaarohia ko te Taser", ko te korero a Brewster. "Kei te pū me te Taser te arotahi taiaho, ā, he hapa noa iho tana". I kii ano a Brewster ko te ringa maui o tana kiritaki e mau ana i te pupuhi pepa. I roto i tana whakaaturanga ki nga kairangahau, i kii a Bates kua mau ia ki tetahi "kaikawe pepere pepere" ki te whakamatau ki te whakaiti, ki te aukati ranei i a Harris, i a ia e rere ana. Kāore a Bates i tino kī i te wāhi o te Taser i runga i tōna...
I whakaaro a Robert Bates he patu patu te patu nā te mea i kite ia i tētahi arotahi laser i runga i a ia. E ai ki ngā roia o te whānau Harris he rereketanga nui kei waenganui i te patu me te Taser i whakamahia. I te tau 2009, i kii ano tetahi pirihimana i California i te pohehe i whakamahia e ia tana patu hei utu mo te Taser.