USA – Vermont: Proposed Taser policy lacks teeth, ACLU says (2013-12-02)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Following the death of Macadam Mason in 2012, Vermont Public Safety Commisison is proposing a new policy for taser use, but it leaves whether to adopt some, all or none of the policy up to individual departments. The ACLU says this is little better than current policy. Moreover, the review mechanism is insufficient and nothing is really going to change ...
CANADA – Hamilton, Ontario: Police Taser plan – Cops want to hear from you (2013-11-30)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Hamilton police want to buy 150 new tasers – which, they say, will cost almost $1 million in the first year and an extra $635,000 every year thereafter. City Council balked at trhe cost and the police are asking for public feedback.]]
The Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton police want to talk Tasers with you.
Hamilton Police Chief Glenn De Caire announced in September he ...
RÉUNION – Saint-Benoît – 300 personnes marchent en blanche en mémoire de Loïc Louise [300 people participate in silent march in memory of Loïc Louise] (2013-11-30)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : 300 people in a silent march to protest the 3 November 2013 death of Loïc Louise (near Orléans in France) after he was tasered, behind a banner “Justice must be done”. The autopsy exonerated the taser, but the family, following a visit to Orléans, is convinced the police did not act correctly and have launched a legal action against those ...
USA – Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in association with a Taser-induced electrical injury (2013-11-30)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Case study of a patient who had a stroke (cerebrovascular accident) after being tasered ... raising the possibility of association between the electrical injury and the ischemic stroke.]]
Emergency radiology, by Nicholas Bell, Matthew Moon, Peter Dross
Abstract
Various adverse outcomes related to the use of electrical weapons such as the stun gun or the Taser have been described in the literature over the ...
CANADA – Toronto: Chilling moment police decide to shoot dead mental patient armed with scissors ‘because officer with the Taser gun hadn’t turned up’ (2103-11-29)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Michael Eligon, 29, had escaped from hospital when police found him wandering residential streets. He was shot three times after not responding to police calls to 'drop it'. An inquest heard that he had a 'blank stare' as he approached police. The man had stolen scissors from a convenience store and attacked the attendant before trying to steal car keys ...
USA – San Diego, California: Details emerge in fatal blast linked to taser (2013-11-29)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : In 2012, Alex Martin died after his car exploded. A US Border Patrol agent who fired a Taser at Mr Martin’s car, possibly sparking the deadly explosion. He was returning from San Diego to Texas, was driving through an area where illegal immigrants pass … He drove off, was chased by the police – in unmarked vehicles -, locked himself ...
USA – Texas boy tasered by officer after breaking up school fight, remains in a coma (2013-11-29)
USA - Texas boy tasered by officer after breaking up school fight, remains in a coma (2013-11-29)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A 17-year-old high school student suffered a brain injury and remains in a medically-induced coma - after a Texas sheriff’s deputy tasered him without cause following a skirmish in a school hallway, the boy’s mother claims in court. The event occurred on 20 November ...
CANADA – Ottawa, Ontario – Taser-toting officers face more training and reporting (2013-11-27)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Ottawa police carrying Tasers will face additional training hours and more stringent reporting requirements as part of new use-of-force guidelines released by the province of Ontario and be required be required to complete 12 hours of training, up from eight. Officers will now have to fill out the forms any time they even remove the Taser from its holster in ...
FRANCE – Marseille: Les policiers municipaux mieux équipés, mais pour quoi faire ? [Police better equipped, but what for?] (2013-11-27)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Marseille police will be getting tasers next January – this had been approved by the right-wing city council in June 2012, but implementation has been delayed. They now have “flash-balls”. It is not clear how these are will be useful in “preventing crime”.]]
Metronews
SECURITE – A compter de vendredi, la police municipale de Marseille sera équipée de flash-ball. Des Tasers seront ...
ISRAEL – Police Taser use legal in arrest of West Bank settler Boaz Albert (2013-11-26)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Controversy surrounds video (shown on YouTube) of Israel Police tasering a settler, Boaz Albert , while he lay on the floor without resisting arrest last August. The Justice Ministry has just announced border police acted legally. The police had suspended the use of Taser guns in regards to short-range electric shocks, even though the weapons can still be used to ...
USA – Vigil for South Florida Graffiti Artist in Stun Gun Death (2103-11-25)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A vigil is being held in Miami Beach for a 18-yr-old graffiti artist Israel "Reefa" Hernandez'-Llach who died after he was shocked by police with a Taser in August 2013. He had spray-painted a vacant McDonald’s café wall. family has filed a lawsuit against the Miami Beach Police Department claiming police violated his civil rights.]]
NBC-Miami –
Organizers say the event marks ...
USA – Richmond, Virginia: Appeals Court Tosses $6M Verdict Against Taser (2013-11-25)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A federal appeals court has tossed out a more than $6 million award to the family of a North Carolina teenager who died after being shocked with a Taser. In 2008 17-year-old Darryl Wayne Turner died of cardiac arrest after a police officer fired the Taser twice, holding the trigger for 37 seconds and then for 5. The jury found ...
MALAYSIA – Now, taser guns for enforcement officers to counter illegal gambling (2013-11-22)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Selangor City is considering arming local council enforcement officers with taser guns (probably TASER ® products) in an effort to counter illegal gambling in cybercafes – to reduce risks to raiding parties who in the past have faced violent attacks.]]
Malay Mail
SHAH ALAM, Nov 22 — Selangor is considering arming local council enforcement officers with taser guns in an effort to ...
AUSTRALIA – Blacktown, New South Wales: Protest over use of taser on teen as magistrate dismisses charges (2103-11-22)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The use of a stun gun by six police officers to arrest a teenager. Einpwi Amon, 17, at a train station has shocked people, sparking local activists to organise a protest rally against the actions. Einpwi Amom, 17 at the time of arrest in June, was running from police who accused him of swearing at them. He was motionless for ...
AUSTRALIA – Police use of stun guns under renewed scrutiny after CCTV shows teenager being tasered (2013-11-21)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : (See video here) An unarmed Sudanese-Australian teenager, 17-yr-old Einpwi Amom, was tasered while handcuffed and surrounded by six officers in Sydney. He had allegedly sworn at police and run away. He had fallen and knocked himself unconscious, then started running. When officers bring the teenager to his feet he resists and, as commuters look on, an officer fires his Taser ...
USA – Virginia: Lantz Day Allegedly Tasered For 42 Seconds By Virginia Police (RAW VIDEO) (2013-11-14)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : (Video here) Police in Virginia have accused of shocking a suspect - Lantz Day, 36, a passenger in a car that damaged five parked vehicles as it sped through downtown - with a Taser for 42 consecutive seconds. Police claim he was belligerent and threatened them. The driver fled the scene, but Day couldn't get away. In a video taken by ...
USA – Stun gun study by Ohio police targets improvements (2013-11-13)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A new report by nine Ohio police agencies aims to improve taser use standards, but that there's still more work to be done. Tasers – wrongly reported here as being used in 100 countries – in the report "may carry the risk of injury or death to the offender." The police report claims one death per 2.5 million deployments – ...
QUEBEC – Montreal: Donald Ménard, 41, dies after officers resort to Taser (2013-11-12)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The comment of "Patrick Bolland" (owner of the site "globalshock.org") is misinterpreted but the case remains enigmatic: Why did the Montreal police taser 41-year-old Donald Ménard? Why did he die? A 34th Canadian death following the use of a taser. Should we worry? - Yes!, says Patrick Bolland!))
cbc, Montreal
A man has died and several officers were injured after police were called ...
QUEBEC- L’homme mort aux mains des policiers de Montréal était un évadé de Pinel [Man dies after police intervention – he had escaped from Pinel Psychiatric Institute the day before] (2013-11-12)
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : (VIDEO here - eye-witnesses ... "He was tasered 15 or so times", says one, but this may not be so) Donald Ménard, 41, who died after he was tasered by the Montreal police on 10 November (taser use still formally to be confirmed) is reported to have disappeared from Pinel Psychiatric Institute – where he is hospitalized non-responsibility for a ...
QUEBEC – Montréal : Mort après avoir reçu une décharge de Taser [Man dies after he is tasered] (2013-11-12)
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A man dies following the use of a taser by Montreal police. Police say they tried to control him other physical, with a baton and with Cayenne spray, but “he resisted with enormous energy”. Three policemen were struck. He was then tasered and already in medical distress when paramedics arrive. The inquiry is being done by the Provincial Police (Sûreté du ...