[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: After a five-year moratorium on Taser use, the Regina Police Service (RPS) has deployed the device three times in the past three weeks – although no argument is made here for its re-introduction. At this rate, Taser use could surpass 2006 when the device was deployed 11 times, and 2007 – the […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Controversy surrounds video (shown on YouTube) of Israel Police tasering a settler, Boaz Albert , while he lay on the floor without resisting arrest last August. The Justice Ministry has just announced border police acted legally. The police had suspended the use of Taser guns in regards to short-range electric […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Small municipalities are worried about possible taser liability lawsuits. Police chief says: “There is some question over labeling which says that Tasers could cause serious injury or death,” so five small country police departments have withdrawn (at least temporarily) all tasers on the advice of the city’s attorneys, who have read […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : As research shows more people are dying have died after being tased by police, four local police departments are permanently holstering their Tasers: in Burleson, Crowley, Mansfield and Richland Hills have all decided to ban the devices. The police are not saying why, but a private lawyer says it’s because they’ve received information From TASER International that using its products “could result in death or serious injury.”]]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Four Tarrant County police departments have decided to ban the use of Tasers. Some local police officers won’t be reaching for their tasers in the line of duty because their departments have pulled the shock weapons after a meeting between local law enforcement agencies devices where new warnings about Tasers were […]
WBTV, by Ron Lee [[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Tasers were withdrawn (without any known announcement ) from the Charlotte police for six months of checking, inspecting and reissuing, after the death of Lareko Williams in a sexual violence scenario: he ran away, the police tasered him, he died. The new taser X2 arsenal – a double-barreled […]
25 Jan. 2011 … [[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: In preparation for the Democratic National Convention, the city of Charlotte is expected to buy up to $25 million of new police equipment – including $2 million for X2 tasers – that could impact for years how officers do their jobs. The use of Tasers by the Charlotte […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Another death came just a day after a federal jury in Charlotte awarded $10 million to the family of 17-year-old Darryl Wayne Turner, who died in 2008 after a Charlottetown officer shocked him with a Taser. The decision is to shelve all tasers for evaluation … But a lawyer re,erks: “This incident […]