[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A police officer has been suspended while he is being investigated. for allegedly threatening to shoot a “drunk and unruly” hospital patient with a Taser. Police receive four-days training in taser use. Police spokesperson: “This includes tactical and handling assessments and is designed to test decision making under pressure.”]] news.yahoo.com A police […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Two incidents in Lancashire in July and September 2013 involved Taser being used by officers attempting to carry out strip searches, and led to complaints by the detainees. Although the investigations found that the use of Taser could be justified in both instances, there were some areas of concern highlighted by the […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A mild rebuke for a serious offense! – A police officer who Tasered a partially-sighted stroke victim has been told to improve in his job and apologise to the man. After an Independent Police Complaints Commissioninvestigation. a police officer who Tasered a partially-sighted stroke victim has been told to improve in his […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A police watchdog – the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) – is probing how Devon and Cornwall cops killed one man and injured a group of schoolboys with taser guns last year. The two unrelated incidents left 23 year old Andrew Pimlott dead and three boys aged 14 and 15, injured. Andrew Pimlott […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Two police officers have been sacked after they wrongly arrested a man and, in a police vehicle, delivered FIVE rounds of taser to him for urinating in a back-alley in Liverpool in 2009. The police officers had twice appealed the charges. The IPCC investigated this issue concerned that such incidents […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : 23-year-old James McCarthy suffered a heart attack after being hit with stun gun by officers during Liverpool hotel brawl last year. Mr McCarthy was hit twice, including by one discharge that lasted 11 seconds, and suffered a cardiac arrest. His lawyer is now pursuing a civil claim against Merseyside police for […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The funeral of 23-yr-old factory worker Jordan Begley – who died two hours after being Tasered by police – will be held next week. His mother reported she had called police to settle a domestic dispute between Jordan and a neighbour and that her son had been ‘calm and compliant’ with […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A blind man was tasered following a mistaken identity (his white walking stick was mistaken for a samurai sword). The Independent Police Complaints Commission has cleared the officer: “The circumstances are unusual because the officer was acting on the basis of erroneous reports from members of the public that the victim […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The Independent Police Complaints Commission launched an immediate inquiry in the aftermath of a 23-year-old’s death on July 10. Investigators probing the Taser death of Jordan Begley have been told by eyewitnesses that he was unarmed and restrained when he was shot by police. Officers were initially called to deal with […]
[[Summary / Comments : A classic case of the fire dangers of tasers. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it was investigating why the taser was used against Andrew Pimlott, 32, who had covered himself with flammable liquid and whether it ignited the liquid which caused a man to be fatally burned. A lawyer […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: .This is looking increasingly like a delayed taser-caused death – three months after he was tasered: Motorist Martin Baskeyfield was tasered in a Burslem street on September 29 after being stopped by police on suspicion of driving while disqualified. He was was admitted to hospital on October 4 and remained there until […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Taser use in England rose by 45% in 2011 and the numbers are expected to continue to increase. Mistaken deployment of Taser on a Lancashire blind man – mistaking his blind-stick for a taser – and other incidents spark calls for more police control and restraint. A few weeks earlier, James McCarthy, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: When the police ask for extra weaponry in the struggle to defend our civil liberties, it’s time to start worrying. Last June the Police Federation wrote to the prime minister asking for the number of Tasers to be treble. The tasering of an elderly blind man who’d already suffered from two strokes […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENT: Police marksmen were accused last night of Tasering a man as he lay grievously wounded in the street after they had shot him four times with live bullets. Witnesses claim they heard one of the 50,000 volt stun guns being discharged after a British-born Ghanaian, George Asare, 25, collapsed in a pool […]
[[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 : The 10 jury members of the highly dramatized inquest into the death of Raoul Moat – see other stories – finally says the taser X-Rep, (issued illegally to the police …) did not kill him and no police officers are charged with misconduct”. “Moat was struck by one of the […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Mother calls 999 to report her 16-yr-old son following an assault had locked her out … When police arrived, … He then said he came out with his hands out but was then “jumped on” which led to a scuffle before the stun gun was used. ]] An inquiry is under […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The UK police watchdog needs a fresh approach at the top as it faces criticism over its handling of the Mark Duggan case according to this article in the UK Guardian, Following two taser-related eath in England, questionas are raised about, the head of the IPCC investigations team, Moir Stewart, […]
[[ Summary / Comments: A man from Greater Manchester who stabbed himself and was then Tasered by police died from stab wounds, a post-mortem examination has found. This remains to be confirmed at an Inquest and did the taser not create the condition that made the stabbing fatal? The question remains open ]] BBC: A […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Three taser-related deaths in a week have sparked contraversy in England: Investigations have been launched following the deaths of two men this week during separate arrest attempts in Cheshire and Bolton in which Tasers and pepper spray were deployed. Last week a Cumbrian body builder, Dale Burns, became the first person in […]