Quoted: A second witness, biomedical engineer John Webster, said he agreed and that his theoretical research based on experiments on pigs confirmed that.
He said that even in the worst-case scenario — in which Taser darts hit a thin person between the ribs within 11 millimetres or less of the heart — the probability of ventricular fibrillation (interruption of the normal heart rhythm) would be in the order of six in a million.
“For people with a small body mass there is a tiny risk,” Webster said by video-teleconference from the University of Wisconsin.