[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Should tasers be used in prison-cells (“lock-ups”) ? The aboriginal community says No” – particularly since were two police officers were given suspended jail sentences for assaulting Kevin Spratt who was tasered 13 times at the East Perth Watch House in 2008. But police are arguing for their re-introduction: tasers would be […]
[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Protesters say they will march on Logan police again this Saturday and every Saturday until some answers into how a local indigenous Woodridge woman, Sheila Oakle, who is participating in the protest, was tasered in the eye are given. Meanwhile, Ms Oakley had returned to hospital yesterday for more surgery to her […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Indigenous community leaders say Queensland Police have inflamed tensions in Logan City by turning up at an anti-Taser protest armed with Tasers. More than 100 people marched to Logan Police Station after Sheila Oakley was blinded in one eye after being tasered by an officer earlier this month. Ms Oakley, 36, was […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Tasers to oppose those opposed to tasers? Supporters of a Logan woman who was blinded in one eye after being tasered marched on the local police station on Saturday demanding justice for Sheila Oakley. Ms Oakley, 36, led the march.]] Brisbane Times and Sun-Herald, by Cameron Atfield Supporters of a Logan woman […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: (see video here) Sheila Oakley, 36, an aboriginal woman, was tasered in the eye by the officer at her home near Brisbane yesterday, who was a highly experienced Taser trainer. He continued to arrest her with the taser dart in her eye. Ms Oakley was intoxicated and admits she held a stick […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: City councilors in this remote northern community are baffled by “Taser and laser” – lasers? – request in 2014 budget, and decide to put the request off until their next meeting, since the taser has proven to be so controversial. (Reported elsewhere: the taser had already by the RCMP 25 times been […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The New Zealand Police (better than the UK) provides detailed analysis of taser use by its police. This is the latest synopsis from a Police press release. Some of the key findings: 35 TASER show events per 10,000 Police apprehensions, and 5 TASER discharge events per 10,000 Police apprehensions; There were 2,646 TASER […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Taser use up – but only actually fired on 72/552 times it was drawn from January to June 2013, with injuries increasing – 10 people moderately or seriously injured as a result of a shot in the six months to June 30. The number was the highest six-month figure since the weapons […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Police used a Taser on a man late on Monday afternoon, prompting a riot in the tiny Aboriginal community of Aurukun community in Queensland. The settlement of about 1000 people erupted after the incident, with a large number of people forcing officers to retreat to the police station compound.]] Brisbane Times, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The taser as one element in a confrontation with substantial police brutality: Landon Curley, 26, an aboriginal man (Mohawk: Six Nations ), explains how he was tasered by Six-Nations Police after he fell asleep at a friend’s house. Two officers are charged with forcible entry, assault and unlawful confinement.After a night drinking […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The Conversation [an independent source of analysis, commentary and news from the university and research sector ), Monash University [20 minutes out of Melbourne], publishes this inciteful commentary on two recent taser coronial findings. Five Australians have died following use of the taser. In the case of Brazilian Roberto Curti, there was […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Police units north of Sydney engage in damage-control following protests by more than 100 aboriginal community members of the January 2011, tasering of a 14-year old boy, who was targeted twice when police say he resisted arrest, and then again tasering of a group last week. This latter claim was denied by […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Western Australia’s Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) has been lambasted by a parliamentary committee for being slow to launch its investigation into police who tasered Kevin Spratt at least 12 times in August 2008.]] Herald-Sun WA’s Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) has been lambasted by a parliamentary committee for being slow to […]
[[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 : At a 4-day “Australasian Electronic Device conference” in Wellington, New Zealand, New Zealand police say they will not consider stopping the use of tasers. The police say that sionce Tasers were introduced in New Zealand in March 2010 after being trialled in 2006 and 2007 they have discharged tasers 212 times, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Kevin Spratt, an indigenous man, was tasered multiple times by officers in Wersdtern Auistralia in 2008. His case has since been passed from one agency to another, has been hand-balled from agency to agency, despite the transparency of the videotape evidence (available on this site). A parliamentary report is also critical of […]
[[Summary / Comments : An aboriginal man, Phillip Charles Bugmy, has been found not-guilty of all charges and the State Supreme Court ruled police used excessive force in tasering him during his arrest in Wilcannia last year. Mr Bugmy’s solicitor asked: “Does the Police Commissioner consider that tasering someone, in their lounge room, on their […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Western Australia Police have dropped a Supreme Court appeal against a man who was found to be unlawfully tasered in the state’s far west. A Local Court found Phillip Charles Bugmy – an aboriginal man – not-guilty of all charges and ruled police used excessive force in tasering him during his arrest […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The March 18 death of Laudisio Curti after he was tasered has led to a renewed national debate on the use of tasers in Asutralia. This Australian Broadcasting Company survey points to the deaths already recorded and many other questions of taser abuse by Australian police. Note: This article contains links to […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Clayton Alvin Willey, who died 16 hours after he was tasered in 2003, was, police have now admitted, physically abused by officers once inside the Prince George detachment. However, none of the reports into the incident ties Willey’s death to the conduct of police. A civil law suit now underway by the […]