[[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 : The Pierre police chief is defending an officer’s use of an electroshock weapon against an 8-year-old girl who was threatening to harm herself. She was tasered in her with with a babysitter present. Police chief doesn’t apologize: “we can’t control if the threat is eight or 80” and the officer who […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The Metropolitan Police (= London Police) is actively trying to convince community groups that more tasers are good for the community. two officers per response car will be equipped with Taser in each borough, with a pair of the vehicles operating at any one time. (Hard to make out what this really […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Blind Colin Farmer, 61, who is recovering after being tasered by mistake, has instructed Sophie Khan, of McMillan Williams Solicitors, a solicitor-advocate specialising in taser-related injuries, to represent him in his civil claim for compensation against the police. Mr Farmer, who has suffered two strokes in recent years, was walking in Peter […]
[[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 / COMMENTS: In what may be the mnost surreal case of mistaken identity, UK police taser a blind man nistaking his blind cane for a samurai sword! Understandably, Colin Farmer did not stop when police demanded him to do so, without revealing they were poilice officers. Police later arrested a 27-year old man in […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Kieran Ahmet, who is 17, describes how he was hit in the chest by a charge from a police taser, as officers foiled an attempted jewel robbery. He was an innocent bystander caught up in the police operation in north-east London on Saturday morning. The Met has said sorry.]] ITV, by Piers […]
ITV [[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Police have apologised after accidentally tasering an innocent bystander following an attempted robbery at a jewellery shop in north-east London. Six men, three of whom were tasered, were arrested and remain in custody at north London police stations.The force said that during the arrests a 17-year-old boy, who was not part […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Police have apologised after accidentally tasering an innocent bystander following an attempted robbery at a jewellery shop in north-east London. Six men, three of whom were tasered, were arrested and remain in custody at north London police stations.The force said that during the arrests a 17-year-old boy, who was not part of […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: An electrician was tasered by armed police because he walked into a shop with a screwdriver in his pocket. Chris Thomas, 45, had been repairing the lights in a nearby pub and still had the tool in his pocket which led to a security scare in central Swansea. He received four bursts […]