Taser News
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Nashville -
A new research study reveals new details about how the electric eel's electro-shock system works, concluding that it employs exactly the same mechanisms as Tasers and that eels are effectively "swimming Tasers."
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Phoenix -
A man was tasered not once, not twice, but three times, and he still continued to fight with police. The incident was captured on video.
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Miami Beach -
An up-and-coming 18-year-old graffiti artist has died after being Tasered by Miami Beach police for running away from officers.
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Vancouver -
RCMP Const. Bill Bentley is the first of four RCMP officers to be tried for perjury for alleged false testimony made to an inquiry examining the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in 2007.
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London -
London’s Metropolitan Police have confirmed that a man was disabled with a taser outside the Queen’s residence, Buckingham Palace, in London. The man is reported to have broken through a cordon and held a knife to his throat.
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Bridgeport -
Three Bridgeport, Connecticut police officers have been placed on administrative leave after the release of a video showing them brutally kicking and stomping a chase suspect after immobilizing him with a stun gun.
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Kendal -
A body builder struggled with police as they tried to arrest him. They claim to have feared for their lives, and so they used a Taser gun on him four times.
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Nashua -
New Hampshire police used a stun gun on a Chinese woman who does not speak English after she was told to leave an Apple Store for trying to buy too many iPhones.
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Santa Fe -
A lawsuit has been filed against Police officer Christopher Webb and the New Mexico Department of Public Safety on behalf of a ten-year-old boy who alleges the officer used a Taser on him.
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Cleburne -
Ricky Jones, a 19-year-old diabetic patient, was involved in a traffic accident in the city of Cleburne in April this year, after going into hypoglycemic shock when his blood sugar dropped dangerously low.
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Wake Forest -
A new US study has found that teenagers who are Tasered, don't appear to be at any higher risk of injury than adults. Researchers examined data from "real life" altercations between youth and police.
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Los Angeles -
Police have arrested a man, allegedly carrying a pair of scissors, who had snuck onto the property of the Los Angeles area home of singer Miley Cyrus.
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Tel Aviv -
Tel Aviv police were responding to a call about a fight occurring in a Tel Aviv water park. A man criticized the police for their handling of the situation, and got tasered five times.
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Tel Aviv -
A Palestinian man from East Jerusalem has filed a complaint of police misconduct after he was tasered five times at a Tel Aviv water park this week, in front of his five children.
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Police officers put their lives on the line every time they step outside their front doors, often having to face such dangerous public enemies as dementia patients and pregnant women.
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Almost a year ago, 2 California police officers beat a 37-year-old homeless man, Kelly Thomas to death. Now video footage of the brutal attack has been revealed in court.
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Sydney -
Over the weekend a man who was being arrested for a robbery was shot with a taser and subsequently died.
Now several media outlets are reporting a robbery may not have even been committed.
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London -
City police in London, Ontario, used a Taser on a teenage boy involved in a street brawl Thursday. It is being reported that the boy may have been struck in the face by the prongs of the powerful stun gun.
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Hackensack -
It was a wild scene at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands Sunday when the Dallas Cowboys came to town to play the New York Jets. But Leroy McKelvey of South Carolina did the unheard of. He attacked Jets fans with a stun gun, injuring three people.
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Whitby -
Durham Regional Police officers arrested a Whitby woman, 24, this week who was found in a neighbour's home wielding an axe.
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London -
A Taser and four cartridges went missing after a London police officer drove off with the items on the roof of a police vehicle.
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Port Perry -
Tension was in the air Monday evening when officers with Durham Regional Police Service's North Division were confronted by a distraught armed man in Port Perry.
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Cheyenne -
When police went to the home of a Wyoming man he tried to stop them from using a Taser on him by dumping paint over his body.
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Gunman Raoul Moat opened fire on himself before police officers opened fire on him using Taser shot guns given to them only hours before the stand-off.
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British Columbia has announced that a special prosecutor will be appointed to review discrepancies in testimony at the Braidwood inquiry.
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Philadelphia -
A 17-year-old Pennsylvania boy was subdued by a Taser last night during a Phillies baseball game. He ran onto the field before the eighth inning, eluding security momentarily before being detained by a police officer wielding a Taser.
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Boise -
This was not just a case of an Officer using “rough” language to get the Complainant’s attention. He punctuated his offensive speech language by pushing the Taser between the Complainant’s buttocks, anal and genital areas.
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A father and son were fighting a speeding ticket in Ferndale, Michigan's 43rd District Court when a fight broke out between them and police, resulting in the father and son being Tasered and arrested.
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Police officers from two Chicago suburbs are being sued after one of them allegedly Tasered a man having a seizure because the diabetic involuntarily hit the officer while being taken to an ambulance.
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Outspoken Chairman of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), Paul E. Kennedy, has issued two reports in the past week that rip the RCMP for their tasering practices.
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Taser Image
Police are only supposed remove their taser when someone is in danger. One officer allegedly used his for a very inappropriate purpose. Andrew
Robert Dziekanski, a landed immigrant from Poland is seen on this framegrab from a video taken by Paul Pritchard, at the arrivals area of the Vancouver airport on October 14, 2007. Paul Pritchard
Electric eel in an aquarium Stevenj
Dziekanski with his arms at his side and nothing in his hands as RCMP officers first confront him Screen capture from Paul Pritchard's YouTube video
Robert Dziekanski was filmed by Paul Pritchard at the Vancouver airport holding a small table before he was stunned with a Taser by the RCMP. The B.C. Coroner's Service says the death of the Polish immigrant six years ago was a homicide. Paul Pritchard / Screengrab
A young man lies on the sidewalk after being stunned by a Taser wielded by a London, Ontario, police officer. YouTube Screen Grab
man tasered by police in Tel Aviv anamnalqudscom/YouTube
The electrical eel is a 'swimming Taser,' new study concludes Kenneth Catania
A 17-year-old teen is Tasered after disrupting a baseball game in Philadelphia YouTube screenshot
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