Here ya go.

Read that again.  This isn’t The Onion. This is MSNBC.

So they’ve turned from GI Joe to Bruce Lee?  That’s an improvement?

“The Anderson [California] Police Department is implementing the police nunchaku as a tool to more effectively arrest, control, and subdue non-compliant suspects,” Chief Michael Johnson told NBC News. “The nunchaku can be deployed to more compassionately gain compliance from a suspect through pain application opposed to striking, as customary with the side-handled or straight baton.” (Bolding mine.  All mine. All insanely mine!)

Okay, I get the idea that “pain application” is more compassionate than “death application”.  I get that.  But not by much.  I think we might need to check the definition of compassionate to see if it includes nunchucks.  Nunchucks are not a yoga pose, you know.

Police!  Settle down!

Thanks to Bryan for the heads up.