[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Taser proving unreliable …. “Officers confronted the suspect in a stabbing incident and attempted to Taser him when he failed to follow commands,” Aurora police wrote in a prepared statement. “The Taser had no effect.”]] CBS-Denver AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – Police believe the suspect in an early Tuesday morning stabbing in Aurora […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A case of the dysfunctioning of a taser – against a person who was perhaps calling 911 for help … : Jonathan Ferrell was killed at the scene after a taser, used multiple times, didn’t work – he was then shot. Police later found his wrecked car and say it’s likely […]
An unnamed man, armed with a bat and a knife, was tasered on 29 August, but the taser was ineffective. He was then shot and died in hospital of his wounds.
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Following a high-speed chase, tasers fired by two Wilmington officers malfunctioned Sunday night when the first stun gun shot did not hit Deomain Hayman, 28, and the second appeared to have no effect on a man who later died at a hospital, a preliminary police investigation indicates. The stun guns were […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Another case of the taser not working: Scott D. Golden, 44, was apparently “out of control and extremely dangerous.” An officer fired an X26 Taser at the enraged man, striking him, but to no effect. ]] East Hampton Star, by T.E. McMorrow | Man charged with assault on a police officer […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Another case of the taser not working: Limmie E. Varner, 46 was running away from a grocery store with stolen alcohol, police said. They shot multiple taser prongs but the taser prongs had no effect, reports said. The prongs stuck to his multiple layers of clothing but did not have contact with […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Is the taser really “less-lethal”? On 17 December 2012, Kevin Culp was in a county prison for a federal offense (manslaughter). He was in a medical unit and had an “unknown medical episode” and nurses called for medical help, subsequently becoming combative. He was shocked with a taser, which “had little effect,”, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A case that raises serious questions about taser reliability, even if used “appropriately” … Police were called after several men were allegedly smoking marijuana in a parking lot. One man, police said, pointed a gun at his own head when they were frisking him. He was tasered, but this didn’t stop the […]
[[Summary / Comments : The Taser X3 is a waste of money ! … The Department of Public Safety is scrapping 1,000 new X3 tasers bought in 2010 worth $1.6 million taxpayer dollars. A police spokesman says the X3 was way too big. “So much so that it interfered with their ability to get in […]
[[Summary / Comments : First taser, then gun … After two attempts to subdue Mr Kramer with a taser, which were ineffective, a police officer shot him 9 times for resisting arrest. The settlement clears all parties: The police officer was initially placed on paid administrative leave but has since moved to employment as a […]
[[Summary / Comments : Another taser related death – following the use of a taser in a hospital ward. Jerry Nichols, 64, was a Vietnam War veteran who suffered from a lung condition called COPD and other medical complications. He died following an altercation with police this week. He became violent in the ER and […]
[[Summary / Comments : Another case of the taser proving ineffective … An unnamed 26-year-old man was taken to hospital in Halifax on Monday night with serious but non-life threatening injuries following an altercation with Halifax police, following an impaired driving complaint. One of the officers deployed the taser but police said it was not […]
[[Summary / Comments : Is it not normal to try to reduce pain by pulling taser darts out? And do they invariable work anyway? Robert Compton, a homeless man, in clear psychiatric distress, succeeded in pulling the taser darts out of his body: ‘I deployed all of my Taser cartridges,” Officer Manrique wrote. “They were […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENT: An important admission that the life-cycle of tasers is, according to the manufacturer, 5 years. In other words, the majority of tasers in use in North America are quite possibly past the recommended “deployment lifecycle”. The Warren Police Department recently discontinued use of the stun guns, after finding that in 23% of […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENT: Fellow inmate Mitch Cutknife told reporters Thursday that Jeff Oatway was handcuffed and restrained on the floor when police zapped him at their downtown Edmonton headquarters on April 11. Mr Oatway, 34, was in a coma on life support and died two days later. Cutknife said he decided to go public when […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The issue here is a very common one: why the taser failed to “incapacitate” a suspect, even when used multiple times. TASER Inc. decribes the X26 as ‘a beautiful sophisticated device using a high voltage electric shock to totally incapacitate a target by hijacking his central nervous system … It is overwhelming […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Why was the taser ineffective on this drunken and/or psychiatrically disturbed man? Why is it so often ineffective with so-called ‘excited delirium’ cases? The answer is disturbing, but not developed here: the manufacturer’s claims of its capacity to “incapacitate temporarily” are grossly exaggerated. Multiple discharges are often due to faults with […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : This is a case of tasers not working properly: “One of the deputies attempted to use a Taser on 15-year-old special needs teen – no further details on his problem provided , who had been fighting with his father. Police claim he then charged deputies with a pickax and baseball bat, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The Arizona Department of Public Safety (state police) just increased its order for 800 new taser from $800,000 to a new order for 1,000 newer-model Tasers and accessories at a cost of more than $1.9 million. – This was the decision of one man, Sgt. Bud Clark, who failed to declare […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: Scotland Yard, headquarters of the London Police – the Mets – says stun gun used nine times on Justice Livingstone following reports of a man waving a weapon. He says he was Tasered four times to the chest and when that did not affect him, officers Tasered him three times to the back […]