[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A conservative London councillor calls for taser creep: the police should deploy Taser guns on aggressive drunks. Camden council said Mr Bucknall’s views did not reflect those of the local authority… ]] London Evening Standard, by James Watt A London councillor has sparked controversy by calling for police to deploy Taser guns […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS (edited google translation – see Spanish original below in italics): Municipal officers in 30 municipalities in the Catalonia region of Spain are getting access to tasers (150 tasers in all), based on the argument that this will prevent deaths. The taser is principally for use against roudy, drunken tourists. The Interior Ministry […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Tasers have been issued to Singapore police since 2007. Here is an example of their (infrequent) use, against as drunk man who was acting rowdily …]] Today online SINGAPORE — The police said they had to use a taser on a 47-year-old drunk after he became aggressive and charged at them repeatedly […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Running around naked is too frequent a cause of being tasered. Without any direct threat to anyone’s safety. Police said they were “forced to use a Taser” on a man who was found drunk, naked, running around waving his arms and yelling in a public parking lot here Thursday morning.]] Inforum, by […]
[[Summary / Comments : Reginald Williams Jr. died after Police arrested him on kidnapping charges. He had been tasered multiple times, according to a witness. A medical examiner officially ruled Williams’ death an accident due to “Complications of acute intoxication due to the combined effects of methylenedioxypyrovalerone [bath salts] and ethanol.” The medical examiner’s office […]
[[ 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 […]
[[ 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 […]
[[Summary / Comments: 41-year-old Donald Ménard died following an altercation with police where a taser was reportedly deployed on Monday evening. Police responded to a call about a woman overdosing. Somehow this became a struggle between the police and Mr Ménard, who was reported intoxicated. There was a physical struggle, he was batoned, pepper-sprayed and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Video (here) shows police taser a drunk man, telling him to get on his knees and that he was under arrest for intoxication – the man continued to smoke a cigarette. After he was tasered, he screamed and dropped to the ground, where he was handcuffed.]] Windsor Star, by Craig Pearson […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : France is one of only six major countries outside the United States in which tasers are widely deployed. (The others are Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and the United Kingdom.)In France, tasers are a political tinder-box; deployment of tasers has been affected by several strange turns specific to the French context. Currently (in October […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: (Revised google-translation from Portuguese; the original text appears below the translation, in italics.) A driver in Brazil is tasered, probably multiple times, and dies of cardiac arrest before getting to hospital. The police say he was intoxicated, there was a car chase, and he smashed into the wall of a tunnel. He […]
[[Summary / Comments : At issue here is the unreliability of the taser: six Burnaby RCMP officers to restrain a man after a Taser had no effect. A woman calls here boyfriend who calls the police when an unwanted man sprawls naked on her sofa. He was drunk: the officers Tasered him and it did […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: (Brief report) Winnipeg police tasered a 16-year-old boy Sunday morning after receiving complaints about property damage. He was intoxicated and uncooperative. As a result, he was injured and required medical attention]] CTV-News, Winnipeg Winnipeg police tasered a 16-year-old boy Sunday morning after receiving complaints about property damage. Officers went to the 400 […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: On June 24 2012, the City of MacAlester police tasered Nakina Wiliams while in the chest at point-blank range while she is restrained in jail. – and the Daily Mail posts the video of this “shocking scene”. In the video, Ms Williams doesn’t fall to the ground during the attack but her […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: see the video of a 14-year-old aboriginal boy being tasered by police on this site. about whether officers are adhering to operating procedures in their use of the devices. The boy’s lawyer says: “Watching the tape, watching the child crying and screams, and the fact that police weren’t really concerned, that was […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A policeman who tasered a « fairly intoxicated » 19 year-old man at a street party in Cornwall was subsequently suspended from operating the weapon, police have confirmed – not much of punishment for what would appear abusive use of this weapon, and a tendency to trivialize its use in the UK. […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “No justice for the victims!” A federal judge gives an Arkansas car passenger, Derrol Dee Kirby III, just $1 award after he was tasered by cops, even though he committed no crime and was hit by two tasers while he was handcuffed. Note: he was the passenger, not the driver. Kirby had […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Why was the taser ineffective on this drunken and/or psychiatrically disturbed man? Why is it so often ineffective with so-called ‘excited delirium’ cases? The answer is disturbing, but not developed here: the manufacturer’s claims of its capacity to “incapacitate temporarily” are grossly exaggerated. Multiple discharges are often due to faults with […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: A clear case of the taser as an invitation for abuse and as a weapon of choice: Bystander calls police to say a man seemingly drunk had fallen off his bike; police arrive, see him cycling and pursue him with sirens blaring, yelling to stop. He doesn’t, and appears (to the police) to […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Are tasers effective with “violent suspects”? In an significant comment on why Nicholas Koscielniak apparently failed to repond to the use of a taser – and there is much witness dispute here of the police actions – a police attorney comments interestingly: “Lancaster Police Chief Gerald Gill told News 4, […]