[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Sail Anaim, an Israeli police officer – clearly a “bad cop” – has been disciplined for the first time for using the taser abusively: he unlawfully shocked an unnamed subdued man with a taser gun 24 times while he was already handcuffed in a police-car, on the ground and ion the police […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The use of a stun gun by six police officers to arrest a teenager. Einpwi Amon, 17, at a train station has shocked people, sparking local activists to organise a protest rally against the actions. Einpwi Amom, 17 at the time of arrest in June, was running from police who […]
(See video here) An unarmed Sudanese-Australian teenager, 17-yr-old Einpwi Amom, was tasered while handcuffed and surrounded by six officers in Sydney. He had allegedly sworn at police and run away. He had fallen and knocked himself unconscious, then started running. When officers bring the teenager to his feet he resists and, as commuters look on, an officer fires his Taser at the already-handcuffed teenager. As Mr Amom writhes in pain, an officer says: “If you resist again, you’ll be tasered again.” – A child’s court judge rules that all charges against Mr Amom be dropped, and civil libertarian lawyers point to abusive taser use.
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Information posted on an unknown website: A Florida police officer was recently cleared of any wrongdoing after he tasered a 20 year old handcuffed girl in September 2013 in the back as she fled. The tasering was caught on video showing officer Cole firing the taser at the handcuffed Danielle […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : 11 years ago police mistook a firearm for a taser. $775,000 out-of-court settlement with the family has been agreed. The officer, “accidentally” killed 24-year-old Everardo Torres as he sat handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser. At the time, “no one foresaw a weapon confusion issue,” and since then tasers […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENT: In January 2011 police stopped Matthew Dixon, handcuffed him and then used a taser stun gun on him during an early morning confrontation outside his home – he was thrown to the ground, handcuffed and tasered for not showing his licence fast enough, after parking in his driveway. This violated his rights, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: (Revised google-translation from Portuguese; the original text appears below the translation, in italics.) A driver in Brazil is tasered, probably multiple times, and dies of cardiac arrest before getting to hospital. The police say he was intoxicated, there was a car chase, and he smashed into the wall of a tunnel. He […]
[[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: 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: Another case of tasered > died, but not because of being tasered – his death was “excusable”!. Keith Tucker, 47, died in 2004 after officers responded to a call from his roommate that Tucker was acting erratically. He was handcuffed and on his stomach when officers stunned him with a Taser. The […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: In an all-too-typical case, and despite the misleading headline, a New Orleans police officer is dismissed for deploying his taser on an unarmed subject and for lying in his report on the incident. The officer had been found to have violated the NOPD truthfulness and moral conduct policies. He has a colorful […]