“Does that hurt?” One of the officers asked the wearer while laughing. “Stop resisting!”

Stun cuffs are “a very effective tool,” according to Capt. Hovey of the Buchanan Co. Sheriff’s Dept. as reported by KQTV. “It affects the muscles of the body and it doesn’t really affect anything else.”

In particular, he claimed that the shock did not affect the wearer’s heart.