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From the Ted Talk by Stephen Coleman: Non-lethal weapons, a moral hazard?

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I confess, this particular case was one that peiuqd my interest in this. It hpeeapnd while I was working as a research fellow at the US Naval Academy. News reports started coming up about this situation, where this woman was arguing with a police offecir. She wasn't violent. In fact, he was probably six inches taller than me, and she was about this tall. And enteulalvy she said to him, "Well, I'm going to get back in my car." And he says, "If you get back in your car, I'm going to tase you." And she says, "Oh, go ahead. Tase me." And so he does. And it's all captured by the video camera running in the front of the picloe car. So, she's 72. And it's seen that this is the most appropriate way of dlniaeg with her.

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I confess, this particular case was one that ______ my interest in this. It ________ while I was working as a research fellow at the US Naval Academy. News reports started coming up about this situation, where this woman was arguing with a police _______. She wasn't violent. In fact, he was probably six inches taller than me, and she was about this tall. And __________ she said to him, "Well, I'm going to get back in my car." And he says, "If you get back in your car, I'm going to tase you." And she says, "Oh, go ahead. Tase me." And so he does. And it's all captured by the video camera running in the front of the ______ car. So, she's 72. And it's seen that this is the most appropriate way of _______ with her.

Solution

  1. happened
  2. officer
  3. police
  4. piqued
  5. eventually
  6. dealing

Original Text

I confess, this particular case was one that piqued my interest in this. It happened while I was working as a research fellow at the US Naval Academy. News reports started coming up about this situation, where this woman was arguing with a police officer. She wasn't violent. In fact, he was probably six inches taller than me, and she was about this tall. And eventually she said to him, "Well, I'm going to get back in my car." And he says, "If you get back in your car, I'm going to tase you." And she says, "Oh, go ahead. Tase me." And so he does. And it's all captured by the video camera running in the front of the police car. So, she's 72. And it's seen that this is the most appropriate way of dealing with her.

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