USA – Florida: Dead man’s mother said Hialeah police used a Taser on her son (2014-03-03)
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: No less than three tasered-then-died cases in the last 6 months in Southern Florida … Treon “Tree” Johnson, 27, died in the custody of Hialeah police last Thursday after police found him on a rooftop throwing coconuts at a dog that had bitten him. Police tasered him and transferred him to Hialeah Hospital. Then he went into cardiac arrest and died. Police ...
USA – Irving, Texas man on drugs dies after naked scuffle with police (2014-03-01)
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Did the taser cause this man’s death? An unidentified man who “appeared to be on drugs” died Saturday after a bizarre incident in a bar in which he wrestled naked with police, was tasered and arrested and then hospitalized and died. “The Taser had no apparent effect” say the police, but he was already in medical distress in the ambulance. An autopsy ...
USA – TASER International: “A video is worth a million words: The rise of video in policing” (mailed 2014-03-01)
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A mailing from TASER Inc. calles on police to consider video recordin as … Increasing video use has swayed juries and resulted in many a dropped complaint, and evolving technology means lighter hardware, better quality, and improved ease of use for the officer… Just check pout the police.com website … ]]
TASER International donotreply@email-taser.com
The officer always makes the best decisions he can, but ...
FRANCE – New TASER injuries: lacrimal canaliculus laceration and ethmoid bone fracture (2014-02-28)
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: This is the abstract of an article published in the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, showing how tasers can cause serious facial injuries. “This case expands the knowledge of injuries that may occur as a result of the use of this device and the management of peri-ocular TASER injuries.”]]
International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Abstract
The TASER is a non-lethal conducted ...
USA – Casa Grande, Arizona Officer reprimanded after firing his Taser: Weapon repeatedly used on suspect who was shackled (2014-02-26)
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A clear case of taser abuse but with what reprimand? A police transport officer who used a Taser three times on a handcuffed and shackled suspect has been disciplined by the Casa Grande Police Department. Officer Cornelius Riley received a 10-hour suspension after an internal review – after being found to have used it five times, three of them six hours after ...
USA – Morro Bay, California: Parties reach a settlement in a Morro Bay bar Tasering case (2014-02-26)
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: 23-year-old Brian Lopez Martinez was tasered following a scuffle with police in a bar. He was about to launch a civil case against Morro Bay munipality, pleading no contest to a count of interfering with an officer and receiving a $20,000 settlement – This was agreed out-of-court.]]
New Times, by Jone Kinkade
An incident in a Morro Bay bar that led to Morro Bay ...
USA – ACLU asks Gov. Rick Perry to suspend use of Tasers at Texas schools (2014-02-26)
[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and other groups have asked Gov. Rick Perry to place a moratorium on the use of Tasers and pepper spray on students in the wake of an incident that left a High School student badly injured. Noe Niño de Rivera, 17, fell backward and hit his head on the hallway floor in November after a ...
UK – London: Call for Met’s Taser arsenal to be fitted with video cameras (2014-02-25)
[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Over the past 18 months there has been a fourfold increase in the number of times officers drew their Tasers. London Assembly Member Baroness Jenny Jones has called for the Met’s entire stock of Taser weapons to be routinely fitted with video cameras in a bid to ensure officer accountability.]
MayorWatch, by Martin Hoscik
London Assembly Member Baroness Jenny Jones has called for the ...
FRANCE – Mort après un tir de Taser dans le Finistère : plainte classée sans suite [Death following 2013 taser use in Finistère: case dropped] (2014-02-22)
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The family of a 45-yr-old man (unnamed) who died after he was tasered at Crozon in April 2103 was holding his ex-wife’s children hostage and was tasered because he was believed to be suicidal, say the Police. He then had a heart attack and died. The court has determined there was no link between the taser discharge and the man's heart attack.]]
Le ...
USA – Washington State: Witnesses file complaint after Bellingham officer shoots homeless man with Taser (2014-02-22)
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Tasering the homeless: Is this justifiable? Three witnesses file a complaint alleging a police officer used excessive force when he shot a homeless man with a Taser last week.]]
Bellingham Herald, by Caleb Hutton
BELLINGHAM - Three witnesses filed a complaint alleging a Bellingham police officer used excessive force when he shot a homeless man with a Taser last week on Holly Street.
Police continued ...