Explanation in fatal Taser case draws fire

May 5, 2007
Brian Chasnoff, San Antonio Express News

While naming cocaine as the primary factor that led to Galvan's death, Frost conceded: "There's a great deal of physiology about (excited delirium) that's not known." The ruling "allows for the idea that (the Taser) may have played a role (in the death) in that it made his agitation worse," he said. "It allows for that. It doesn't say it. We're just not sure how much of a role (the Taser) plays in it."

And, therein lies the problem.