[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A police force that almost doubled its use of Tasers last year has been criticised by Amnesty International UK. Thames Valley police revealed that its officers deployed electric stun guns 119 times in 2013, compared with 61 occasions in 2012. Amnesty International UK has called for the use of the weapons to […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Israel Hernandez-Llach, 17-years-old, was already an award-winning artist, on the threshold of acclaim in Miami Beach art circles. It was while spray-painting a shuttered McDonald’s early Tuesday morning that Hernandez-Llach was chased down by Miami Beach police and shot in the chest with a Taser. He later died. Friends and family […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : John Wrana, a 95-year-old world War II veteran died after being Tasered and hit with bean bag rounds by police for threatening care home staff – but his family insist he was killed unnecessarily. Officers claim he picked up a 6-inch knife, but his family’s attorney alleges that care home staff […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A 12-yr-old child hit by a police taser is just one of dozens of cases where someone was exposed to a TASER by a Fort Worth police officer and seriously injured. In 2012, 113 people in Fort Worth were exposed to a TASER, 25 were injured. So far this year police […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Brighton Police are investigating video footage that is said to show an officer kicking a man moments after he was shot with a Taser gun on Brighton seafront on Friday evening. The video is said to show the man being kicked forcefully in the leg after he is shot with the […]
[[Summary / Comments : Allegheny County prosecutors are trying to determine how many times a Millvale police officer stunned a handcuffed man, Thomas J. Smith, 27, – who has a host of mental health issues as his family has indicated – last fall in an incident that was captured on video. “Tasers are weapons. They’re […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Hurricane city (population 14,000) has paid $2 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Brian Cadall who died in 2009 after being shocked twice with a Taser by police. The family of Brian Cardall, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, continues their advocacy work with National […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Shoukld we worry about guards using tasers inside prisons? In this bizarre case, a guard tasers a prison nurse after she pulled a prank on him (involving the officer’s lunch box). He was fired, but his union (the Teamsters’ local branch) us saying “He should be disciplined, but discharging him is too […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Tasered while handcuffed – and in psychiatric distress. 27-year-old Thomas J. Smith, of Millvale, is handcuffed and sitting on the floor, inside a Police Station. He’s seen in a video at this site first striking his head repeatedly and then moments later, while still handcuffed, a police officer is seen using a […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A video – viewable at this link – from a camera phone shows clearly police kicking a man in the head and punching him with a Taser gun – one sure sign: drawn from the left holster – after he was no longer resisting. Note the taser wasn’t discharged, just used for […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: (A very brief report) A magistrate in Petah Tikva – a city (pop.210,00) 11 km east of Tel Aviv – says police had no justification for tasering multiple times a detainee who was bound at the time. ]] Ynet-news,com The Petah Tikva Magistrate’s court criticized a local police officer who used his […]
[[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: Salt Lake police are being accused of tasering a mentally challenged man twice and booting the man out onto the street alone. Hisd family says he was “ abused, frightened and humiliated.” Michael Grant is a paranoid schizophrenic, who’s 85% deaf, with impaired vision, and a low I.Q. Elms said last month […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: On June 24 2012, the City of MacAlester police tasered Nakina Wiliams while in the chest at point-blank range while she is restrained in jail. – and the Daily Mail posts the video of this “shocking scene”. In the video, Ms Williams doesn’t fall to the ground during the attack but her […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: New South Wales NSW Police will investigate a second Taser incident from the night Brazilian student Roberto Curti was killed (see under SEARCH): a Sydney court has found the user of a Taser to subdue Marcello Jimenez on March 18, just two hours before Mr Curti was Tasered up to 14 times, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Following two coroner’s reports on deaths following tasering, a leading figure in the Human Rights Law Centre argues for the urgent need for more rigorous police training and more stringent regulatio In the report on Brazilian student Roberto Curti, the coroner likened the police to “schoolboys in Lord of the Flies” and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Unequivocal taser abuse … Five police officers involved in a “reckless, careless, dangerous and excessively forceful” pursuit of Brazilian student Roberto Laudisio Curti will be fighting for their careers as the force’s watchdog examines whether any should face criminal charges such as assault and perjury. State coroner Mary Jerram handed down a […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: An eyewitness says the police police behaved like a “mob of gangsters” in the arrest in which Roberto Laudisio Curti died. He saw “six to seven police chasing a topless man with his jeans falling down” and then setting upon him in a “brutal” way. Mr Curti, 21, was tasered multiple times by […]
[[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: 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, […]