http://reason.com/blog/show/123388.html

Quote :

"Earlier this year, North Braddock, Penn. resident Shawn Hicks came back from a night out and plopped down on his own couch in his own home. Unfortunately, he failed to deactivate the silent alarm on his home security system. According to Hicks, two police officers responded to the alarm, entered his home, and woke him with a taser between the shoulder blades. When Hicks tried to explain that the whole thing was a misunderstanding, and that the officers were in his own home, they tasered him again. They next checked his wallet and ID, which confirmed his name and address. Then they tasered him again. The police then removed the taser pellets from Hicks' bloody back, refused to get him medical treatment, and arrested him for "being belligerent." They threw him in a holding cell until 5 am the next morning, when they released him without filing any charges. You know what happened next. The police department suspended the officers who tasered Hicks without pay while they conducted a thorough investigation. The chief then had them arrested for assaulting Hicks with their tasers, falsely arresting him, and violating his civil rights. The two officers were fired from the police force, then charged, convicted, and given lengthy prison terms. Just kidding. They were cleared of any wrongdoing."

And then we have:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Taser-Elderly-Woman.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Quote :

"CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago's Police Department is investigating an officer's use of a Taser last month on an 82-year-old woman who police say was swinging a hammer when they arrived. Lillian Fletcher was rushed to the hospital after being jolted by the Taser last week but has been released, police said Tuesday. Officials with the city's Department on Aging went to her home Oct. 29 to make a welfare check and called police when they saw Fletcher in a window swinging a hammer, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Tuesday. Officers arrived and in an attempt to subdue Fletcher, one of them used a Taser, Bond said. The department is trying to determine whether the officer violated department policy on the use of stun guns. Fletcher said Tuesday that officers pushed their way into her home. ''They shocked me,'' she said. Fletcher at times sounded confused during the telephone interview. Her granddaughter Traci Taylor told the Chicago Sun-Times that her grandmother has schizophrenia and dementia. ''My grandmother is easily confused,'' Taylor told the newspaper, adding that the woman can be belligerent but is about 5 feet 1 and weighs no more than 160 pounds. ''I just don't think they should be Tasing 82-year-old women. That's ridiculous,'' Taylor said."

and finally

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/10/18/bc-taser.html?ref=rss

Quote :

"Witness blames RCMP, Vancouver airport for death of Tasered man A man who witnessed a Taser incident at Vancouver International Airport last Sunday said security at the facility and RCMP are to blame for the death of a distraught man in the terminal who didn't understand English. Lorne Meltzer, a corporate valet, told CBC News Thursday he was at the airport picking up a client just before 1:30 a.m. Sunday and found himself facing Robert Dziekanski. He said he tried to calm an agitated Dziekanski, 40, in the public arrivals area and unwittingly let the Polish immigrant back into the secure international arrivals area, using his pass to open the one-way doors. Meltzer has a security pass to the secure international arrivals area, as a personal assistant to a Vancouver businessman who often has clients fly into town. "I think the responsible parties are the Vancouver Airport and the RCMP for not having other negotiating tactics once he's at the heightened state," said Meltzer, who was the person who called in RCMP. He said he clearly warned them the man didn't speak English. Meltzer claimed the officers gave Dziekanski two commands in English and within seconds Tasered him after he held a stapler in an apparent threatening manner. "He [Dziekanski] raised the stapler in the air and they [RCMP] said, 'Put your hands on the desk,' in English," Meltzer said. Meltzer said the RCMP were too hasty to use the Taser and he refutes the police claim that the area was too crowded to use pepper spray, because "it was empty." Dziekanski was Tasered by RCMP and later died. Police and a witness conflict in the number of jolts the man is alleged to have received. RCMP insist that the man was zapped two times, but Sima Ashrafinia, who was at the airport and recorded the incident on her cellphone, told CBC News on Monday that RCMP officers stunned Dziekanski four times. An autopsy by the B.C. Coroner's Service on Tuesday did not find the cause of death, citing no trauma or disease was found. Officials are still waiting for the results of toxicology tests and microscopic examinations."

11/9/2007 9:00:26 AM

Quote :

"The police then removed the taser pellets from Hicks' bloody back, refused to get him medical treatment, and arrested him for "being belligerent." They threw him in a holding cell until 5 am the next morning, when they released him without filing any charges."

They realized they fucked up and tried to trump up some charges to justify their actions. This is why you can't trust these idiot assholes.

11/9/2007 9:30:37 AM

What's with all the tasering going on lately? It's all you hear in the news now.

11/9/2007 9:38:52 AM

They need to include 24 hr recording capability in cell phones. It's a sad sad system when the judges side with cops just because they are cops.

It's a sad system when a cops performance is reviewed...BY ANOTHER COP THAT HE WORKS FOR.

11/9/2007 9:53:53 AM

This makes me happy.

11/9/2007 12:12:26 PM

Why, Trap?

11/9/2007 12:13:04 PM

yes i know it is horrible of me to say that, and i am in pain because of their pain...

BUT

just as when america bombed a residential area in iraq recently and killed 20 women and children, and the next day some senior official said "we regret their death, but such deaths are part of the war on terror", in the same vein, these taserings (tasings?) are part of the "war to overthrow corrupt american politicians and public officials."

when enough such incidents have taken place, the people will stand up and revolt. that will be a great day for american and the world.

11/9/2007 12:41:10 PM

I think it's great that the police have a laddered response to threats.

Of course it's going to go wrong sometimes. I'm sure they've saved many more lives then they've taken. Or even unjustifiably hurt.

11/9/2007 12:43:24 PM

im not reading all those words

11/9/2007 1:10:24 PM

Taser should not be first police tool

Quote :

"In Georgia, Gwinnett County has become ground zero in the use of Tasers as a 'nonlethal' method of confronting and subduing suspects. Last week, Gwinnett police leveled a 50,000-volt charge into a handcuffed, 14-year-old trick-or-treater who continued to be unruly while being held by two officers. The incident produced no apparent lasting health effects for the girl. But that incident and others around the country raise important questions about how widespread Taser use has become and whether there ought to be uniform standards for when and how to employ them."

Quote :

"'Excited delirium' is medical examiner talk for overdosing on adrenaline, which causes the heart to race out of control and eventually short-circuit. It also has become one of the most cited causes of death whenever Tasers may be involved in a suspect's death. The science on the deadliness of these shock guns remains unsettled because only a few independent studies have examined the issue. In September, researchers at Wake Forest University reviewed nearly 1,000 cases and found 99.7 percent of those subjected to Taser shocks had either no injuries or mild bruises and abrasions from falling. But, as Gwinnett has learned, it's nearly impossible to determine in advance whether a suspect might be on drugs or have a heart problem that can turn 50,000 volts from a stun gun into a permanently flat EKG line. Moreover, the indiscriminate use of the stun guns on unruly suspects is more than a little troubling, as the Gwinnett case of the 14-year-old trick-or-treater seems to suggest. Was it really necessary?"

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/king/stories/2007/11/07/mkinged_1108.html

Human rights group condemns use of Taser on teen

Quote :

"Amnesty International is questioning the repeated use of a Taser gun on a 17-year-old boy by police officers at a house party in Hampton, N.B. Amnesty spokesman Andy Buxton says nobody should be hit with the weapon, which can deliver up to 50,000 volts of electricity in one shot, especially vulnerable groups like children, teenagers and the elderly. The international human rights group is calling for a suspension of the use of all Tasers by police officers."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2006/09/20/nb-taser.html



This 17-year-old Hampton boy was hit with a police Taser more than a dozen times.



Another taser injury.

11/9/2007 1:10:30 PM

i guess we should just go back to guns and billyclubs, then

11/12/2007 7:15:46 PM

Either that or begin holding police accountable to the standards set forth by their own departmental guidelines. Police are far too immune to prosecution. It's appallingly obvious that they are incapable of policing themselves and need to be monitored by an independent body who does not rely on them to perform their investigations (the DAs office almost never charges cops unless they absolutely have to based on public pressure because the DA needs to have a good working relationship with local law enforcement). It's long past time for someone to begin policing the police, someone whose only job is to monitor law enforcement and punish them as needed.

11/13/2007 3:16:53 AM

11/14/2007 4:52:30 PM

hahahahhahahhaha thats awesome

11/14/2007 4:56:27 PM

Man tasered for refusing to sign a speeding ticket:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMaMYL_shxc

11/30/2007 12:01:09 PM

FBI Investigating Case of Pregnant Woman Tased by Ohio Officer

http://www.wbko.com/news/headlines/11944351.html

Where's the outrage, people? This shit is out of control.

11/30/2007 12:09:38 PM

Indeed it is. Cops are far too willing to zap us.

11/30/2007 12:21:53 PM

you are correct. it certainly is.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,314124,00.html

probably had something to do with the PCP he was smokin' though

this situation is probably one of the few where i think tasing the dude was just, but he did die, so here it is

[Edited on November 30, 2007 at 12:28 PM. Reason : ,]

11/30/2007 12:24:18 PM

There should be requirements that nearly match those that allow deadly force to be used for the taser.

It's important to remember that police officers are very rarely educated at the Black and White level. It certainly appears they need some restraints placed upon them.

11/30/2007 12:44:22 PM

http://www.statesman.com/news/mplayer/other/32386

12/3/2007 10:40:03 PM

^ Wow.

12/3/2007 10:57:02 PM

LOL, the cop was definitely too quick to use that taser, but damn dude, when a cop asks you 5 times for your license and registration and you still don't produce it, you're asking for trouble.

Fucking idiots, both of them.

12/3/2007 11:53:59 PM

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/twin-brothers-tasered-by-police/2007/12/03/1196530544962.html

12/4/2007 8:26:12 AM

^^^^ That's horrible. That cop is a thug, plain and simple. WTF?

"Do exactly what I say, when I say it, or your ass gets zapped."

12/4/2007 10:56:42 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWaCD6jIH5Q

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2dc_1190307341

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8027854162700568157&hl=en-CA

http://www.youtube.com/v/Hv0a-5JUVX4

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8e9_1190314736

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs

http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/police-brutality-at-wendys-caught-on-tape/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tOVkT2YESU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLTos7N4gSM

12/6/2007 12:52:54 PM

Thanks for the links God, i needed a laugh.

I think the taser is great. The adult spanking.

I love the link of the taser outrage when the twin brother punches a cop in the face. Yeah, if you ask that guy Im sure he would rather take the taser than the 10 mins of billclub that would have no doubt come.

12/6/2007 1:06:31 PM

i was under the impression tazers were only supposed to be used as an alternative for lethal force or when the well being of the police or the individual is at stake

that wendy's video is increadable

12/7/2007 1:44:31 PM

^ It's funny that the cop isn't punished but the girl gets $60,000.

The state will anything to cover for its thugs.

12/7/2007 1:51:12 PM