[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Tasering people naked in public is OK, it seems: an appropriate hand-off technique. When police arrived they found a 22-year-old Massachusetts man naked, sitting in a puddle of water. They were responding to a report of a naked man who broke a windshield, and of a naked man jumping on top […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : On 18 March last year, Brazilian student, 20-year-old Roberto Curti had an adverse reaction to LSD, stole some biscuits from a convenience store in Sydney, was tasered 14 times by the police and died. The Police Integrity Commission is recommending that consideration be given to the prosecution of a number […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Is this coroner making sense? Is using the taser “instinctive”? The police officer who Tasered Antonio Galeano, 39, in the early hours of June 12, 2009 – he was naked, psychotic man and was tasered 28 times before his death – will escape disciplinary action and criminal charges. The coroner ruled that […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Information coming out of the inquest of 21-year-old Brazilian Laudisio Curti: he was hit ‘multiple’ times and subjected to ‘drive stuns’ when the Taser was used directly on his body … Student, who was studying in Sydney, was said to be in a psychotic state after taking LSD. The family releases a […]