[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A city cop in Arkansas chased a woman through her workplace, shooting a Taser at her, because she refused to show him her breasts, the woman claims in court. This was in December 2011. He first threatened her with a taser and when she ran away tasered her. Ashlea Bennett […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Tasers to keep away sexual predators? Bad advice! Victim-blaming Indonesian police are echoing TASER Inc.’s claim that tasers “protect the innocent”, and women particularly. A completely unsubstantiated claim – and a tasered attacker is sure to become more violent. What’s neded is better policing!]] Following a string of sexual assaults committed on […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A clear case of taser abuse? Video in the link at the end. In this story in the English tabloid Daily Mail – intended to be provocative – the Bureau of Land Management Rangers taser a woman. Ms Brooke Fantelli said the ranger allegedly first accused some in her group of […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Police put out a search-warrant on a man who sexually attacked women twice in the southern Montreal suburb of Longueil, armed with a taser … another case of tasers becoming a weapon of choice in criminal circles … ]] 2011-06-03 17:31:00 La Presse Canadienne MONTRÉAL – La police de Longueuil est à […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The city of Olympia has reached a $260,000 settlement with Cynthia Brown, who was illegally strip-searched and shot with a Taser in the city jail in 2008, when she refused to strip-search in front of 3 male officers. “Despite settling the matter, the city denied liability.”]] The Olympian, by MATT BATCHELDOR OLYMPIA […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: This post has been widely circulated in the blog community but we have been unable to find a regular news outlet that has reported the story clearly. “To be confirmed” “The City of Boise [pop. 206,000] wants to make it clear that they are not admitting guilt in the case of a […]