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Human rights advocates raise concerns over increased police Taser use
Concern is growing among human rights campaigners and politicians over the widespread and potentially lethal police use of Tasers after an innocent blind man was shot with a stun gun when his white stick was mistaken for a samurai sword. Colin Farmer, 61, was Tasered in the back after police…
Officers taser 86-year-old disabled woman in her bed: lawsuit
UPDATE: Tasered grandmother threatened officers with knife, police claim One of the police officers named in a lawsuit over the tasering of a bed-ridden 86-year-old woman says the grandmother threatened officers with a knife. “Police have admitted using a Taser to incapacitate the suicidal woman Dec. 22,” reports the Oklahoman.…
Christian Science Monitor: Cops overuse taser because of media hype
Update at bottom: Democratic Congressman jokes he’d Tase his own son if he ran across baseball field Many baseball fans might agree that jerks who interrupt the game get what’s coming to them. But the tasering of a seventeen year old Phillies fan who ran onto the field during Monday’s…
The ‘non-lethal’ Taser: 400 dead since 2001
Law enforcement agencies in Canada are banning the shock device in the wake of a study by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: The study includes a medical analysis that concluded someone shot with a Taser could face as high as a 50 percent chance of cardiac arrest. The Taser company, however,…
FL: cop fired after Taser used on 15 year old as party entertainment
When I receive emails about Taser abuse, it’s usually about the device’s role in a death, or use as a compliance device rather than a last resort before drawing a gun. Even though those are horrific instances, it’s hard to top the level of abuse and professional incompetence of Officer…
TX: few Houston officers disciplined over Taser abuse
Who is surprised at this? Sixty-nine investigations into alleged Taser abuse by members of the Houston Police Department only netted 5 officers worthy of any disciplinary charges. The Houston Police Department has found no wrongdoing in some 1,700 incidents in which its officers intentionally fired a Taser, despite investigating about…
NC: More freestyle law enforcement death-by-Taser
I’ve been busy and haven’t briefed folks on the Taser-happy crowd for some time; it looks like the Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD is having a whale of a time with its shock-inducing, deadly device. A Statesville man died after being shocked multiple times by Tasers at the Iredell County jail over the…
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