[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Allen Kephart died after receiving multiple taser discharges in 2011 in what was clearly excessive use of force. The municipality has agreed to pay $4.25-million in damages to his family. The coroner determined the cause of death as “Obesity, Physical Duress in Altercation While Being Taken into Custody,” labeling Kephart’s death […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The autopsy of Jeffrey Sadler concludes he died of cardiac arrhythmia – an irregular heartbeat – resulting from being stunned by Raleigh police with a Taser gun, according to the autopsy report. His heart disease – 50 percent and 75 percent blockages – and the slightly elevated amount of diphenhydramine in […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A Fort Worth man, asthmatic and obese 34-year-old Jermaine Darden, who died in May after police shocked him with a Taser during a drug raid died of natural causes, the Tarrant County medical examiner has ruled. Mr Darden’s mother and others tried to tell police not about Darden’s health problem. According […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Tasered-then-died – of a heart attack (natural causes). Jermaine Darden died within minutes of being Tased by Fort Worth police during a drug raid in May. The medical examiner ruled the manner of his death as natural. There was “no direct contribution of Taser to his death.” Jermaine’s mother refuses to […]
[[Summary / Comments : A brief report of the death of 34-year-old Jermaine Darden after we was tasered “resisting arrest” during a gun raid in Fort Worth Texas. As a sufferer of severe asthma, he was, said his mother, struggling to breathe by turning on his side.]] FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A 300-pound Fort […]