[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Grand Jury clears officers in school tasing incident, in which a High School student that ended up in a coma. An officer tasered 17-year-old Noe Niño de Rivera on Nov. 20 because he interfered as officers attempted to break up a fight between two girls. The teen hit his head as he […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The Texas Education Agency should ban Tasers from schools … This editorial – following the tasering of Noe Niño de Rivera last November, who fell to the floor and hit his head and was comatose for more than 50 days and may have lasting brain injuries, even though he was probably not […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A 17-year-old Texas student, Noe Nino de Rivera, who spent 52 days in a medically induced coma after police used a Taser on him at school entered a full-time rehabilitation facility Friday, following the use of a Taser by a school resource officer, who tasered him after he tried to defuse a […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The ACLU and six other civil rights groups asked the state’s police commission to ban Tasers and pepper spray in Texas schools. This follows a brain injury to a Bastrop high school student who fell after he was shocked and remains in a coma.]] Houston Chronicle, by James Pinkerton HOUSTON — The […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : 34-yr-old Raymond Allen Jr. died 48 hours after he was tasered and hogtied by Galveston police. He was clearly agitated prior to the incident. He had been taken to hospital where he was “unresponsive”, said his father. “He was tasered from what I hear, two to three times and hog tied” […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Strangely published in the «China Daily» – which does not carry taser stories as a rule – we learn that a Florida police officer who tasered a 20-year-old US woman until she was brain dead has been cleared of wrongdoing. After she was tasered in the back she spun, fell backwards, and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The taser can be devastating ebev if the shock itself does not kill: 20-YEAR-OLD Danielle Maudsley has been left braindead after she was Tasered by police and smacked her head on the ground, after being arrested for a suspected hit-and-run in September. as footage from a police cruiser dashboard camera reveals, Trooper […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : When the Taser’s prongs hit her back, 20-yr-old Danielle Maudsley, who was handcuffed, spun backward and smacked her head on the pavement. She was tasered from a few feet away. She clutched her head and struggled to rise. “I can’t get up,” she moaned, her final words. She has been in […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) condones police use of the taser against Howard Swarray, becoming aggressive as he was recovering from an epileptic fit following rigorous physical training in a gymnasion. “”If he is getting aggressive I am sure 50,000 volts will stand him up.” a police officer said en […]