You can’t say we weren’t warned

I have just started Bad Boy – one of the Chief Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson. Early in chapter 2, we learn that a copper tasered an elderly man in his own home because he thought his walking stick was a sword. The book was published in 2010. Naturally, the victim of the assault has a dodgy heart and dies for greater dramatic effect. But the Chorley Tasering on October 18th was clearly art translating to real life . I’m now waiting to find out if the police assassin gets the sack or it all gets whitewashed over, as in real life.