On a Monday afternoon in the heart of New York City, a four-minute confrontation ended in death for both a 32-year-old woman and the woman who stabbed her, exposing a quiet fault line in modern policing: the assumption that less-lethal tools will work when it matters most. The Times Square incident has drawn experts and officials into a long-overdue reckoning with the limits of Taser technology — limits shaped not by malfunction, but by the irreducible complexity of the human body and mind. What failed that afternoon was not simply a device, but a set of assumptions about who these devices wer
Why Tasers Failed in Times Square Attack: Body Composition's Role
One woman, age 32, was killed; one man, age 68, was wounded in the stabbing attack; the suspect was fatally shot by police.