Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor says "nunchuck sticks," aka nunchaku, are deadly and should be banned. Westword looked into the Orcutt Police Nunchaku, a type of martial arts weapon used by police officers across the country. In this video footnote to the article "Enter the Nunchaku," the inventor of the OPN, police Sergeant Kevin Orcutt, demonstrates the many painful uses of the device on the Westword writer Jared Jacang Maher.

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