Some flight attendants can use tasers on passengers Recently, Korean Air "loosened" its usage policy for tasers located on board its aircraft, CNN reported.
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Truzy reasons that if police departments need to start thinking about Tasers as something closer on the use of force spectrum to deadly weapons, why would they purchase Tasers at all?
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The potential for abusing prisoners with Tasers has grown dramatically.
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Both officers said they used Tasers on Hall before shooting.
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Might the NYPD also purchase its tasers from Digital Ally?
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The rest involved both Tasers and other forms of force.
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He added officers did not deploy Tasers on the suspect.
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In trying to subdue Okobi, deputies deployed Tasers several times.
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Tasers have been deployed extensively over the past several years.
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What is needed is empathy, not restrictions, tasers, and batons.
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Tasers first became popular among police officers in the early 2000s.
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"We find no substitutions between Tasers and firearms," Grogger told CNBC.
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Tasers may be less lethal, but they can still be deadly.
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Chicago just announced that it would equip more officers with Tasers.
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And today's Tasers can also be lethal and are frequently misused.
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Around the same time, researchers began raising questions about Tasers' safety.
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The police had their Tasers drawn during parts of the exchange.
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All patrol officers have been equipped with Tasers and body cameras.
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" Axon calls Tasers the "safest force option available to law enforcement.
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Above, an assembly line for Tasers at Axon in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Police then took out their Tasers and had it their way.
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" Read: Shot by cops and forgotten The Cincinnati Police Department's use of force policy puts no age limit the use of Tasers, but recommends that officers avoid using Tasers on "individuals under the age of 7.
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Axon provides detailed warnings on the risks associated with Tasers, Tuttle added.
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No national standards govern the use of Tasers in jails and prisons.
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An overwhelming majority of United States police departments carry Axon's tasers today.
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About 90 percent of America's roughly 18,000 police agencies now issue Tasers.
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Tasers fire two darts connected to the stun gun by thin wires.
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No government agency tracks fatalities in police incidents where Tasers are used.
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Tasers have become up to 23.5 times more common than deadly weapons.
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In fact, equipping more officers with Tasers is doing just the opposite.
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Tasers were used to subdue him, the warrant alleges, and he was handcuffed.
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"Tasers sound like a wonderful tool," said acting Mississippi County Sheriff Brandon Caid.
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Tasers might do the job if their range and reliability could be improved.
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In 2008, Kroll likened Tasers to therapy for people gripped by excited delirium.
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In all, 2540,284 Tasers are in circulation, nearly triple the number in 2214.
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"Tasers are being used in response to unruly or obstinate behavior," it says.
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As of late June, the police had used Tasers 214 times this year.
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In a memoir, Officer Stacey C. Koon describes shooting King with two Tasers.
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As Tasers' safety came under scrutiny, the company changed its language about risks.
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Indeed, Stroud insists the company never even rigorously tested the safety of tasers.
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The new policy will reportedly allow for a "more active use" of Tasers.
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READ: This instrument can kill: Tasers are not as harmless as previously thought.
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Then a demented priest tries to dig him up, and our protagonist, who works in a family-run power plant (odd enough in itself), Tasers him and also Tasers others, including a little kid who attracts crows and can foretell death.
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It included parts for an assault-style rifle, six ammunition magazines, Tasers and explosives.
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One of the officers shot the woman after Tasers failed to stop her, Sgt.
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Many very smart people swear by Tasers as a useful tool that saves lives.
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But Tasers are now seen more as a last resort in Phoenix, he said.
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He has fired the department's superintendent and said that more officers would receive Tasers.
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His death challenges the idea that Tasers are always a safe alternative to guns.
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Georgia Tech campus police reportedly don't carry Tasers but are equipped with pepper spray.
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Stewart wanted to know why the officers did not use Tasers to subdue Schultz.
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Within a decade, he told the crowd, Tasers will outperform handguns at close range.
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One consequence of that confusion: Some officers still fire their Tasers at the chest.
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In all, more than 2,300 Tasers are in circulation, up from 1,710 last year.
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Deputies who misused Tasers should be held to account, said relatives of the inmates.
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Tasers them, electrocutes them, kicks them in the face, throws them across the room.
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Nationally, there are no uniform standards governing police use of Tasers, although PERF and the International Association of Chiefs of Police offer model guidelines that warn against using Tasers on vulnerable populations and limit the number and duration of shocks during deployment.
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Today, 27 state prison systems use Tasers, a Reuters' survey of the 50 states found.
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A fourth of those showed that Tasers were the only form of police force.[Reuters]
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Tasers, say the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office, "are not likely" to cause cardiac death.
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Sometimes this motley group of guards calls in reinforcements — cops in protective gear with Tasers.
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Combatants on both sides came armed with baseball bats, iron bars, tasers, hammers and knives.
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Too often, experts say, officers see Tasers as a go-to weapon in those circumstances.
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But the panel said they couldn't have known it because laws on Tasers were murky.
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The situations in which Tasers are deployed can be chaotic and difficult to sort out.
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Nearly all those deaths occurred since 2000, when Tasers began gaining popularity with U.S. police.
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" Used Tasers and other types of "less-lethal force" against "people who pose no threat.
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No government authorities track miscarriages or other problems linked to pregnant women stunned by Tasers.
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During his brief appearance, Tarrant was handcuffed and accompanied by three officers armed with tasers.
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During his brief appearance Tarrant was handcuffed and accompanied by three officers armed with tasers.
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That included not just pepper spray, but tasers, and in some cases a beanbag shotgun.
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South Dakota cops have drones, but they are outfitted with "less-lethal" weapons, like Tasers.
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Personal electroshock weapons, such as Tasers, would likely be inadequate and inhumane for this purpose.2.
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Hughes said the 90-day trial showed that Tasers helped to reduce violence and officer injuries.
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Tasers are "an effective tool in helping control violent individuals," said sheriff's office spokeswoman Nicole Nishida.
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"They actually got Chase cuffed easily, but pulling out Tasers escalated the whole thing," Stewart says.
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The GBI told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday that Georgia Tech police officers do not carry tasers.
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According to figures from the Home Office (interior ministry), police discharged Tasers 1,921 times last year.
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Most independent researchers who've studied the weapons agree deaths are rare when Tasers are used properly.
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Bodily contact was the most common use of force option, the researchers noted, with Tasers second.
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Baton Rouge officers deployed their Tasers after Sterling did not comply with their orders, Cook said.
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Medical examiners who pin deaths on Tasers often don't understand the underlying science, the company said.
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As the department has distributed more Tasers, it has also lifted some restrictions on their use.
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The devices will be equipped with cameras that activate automatically when the Tasers are turned on.
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Our educations should not be funded by how many TASERs are put into our children's schools.
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My interest was broader and national: How often are hospital security personnel using Tasers and guns today?
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Examples of DIY modifications include graffiti sprays, grabbing claws, firework launchers, flame-throwers, tasers, handguns and chainsaws.
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The San Francisco police department had requested Tasers for years but had been blocked from doing so.
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But new rules will allow for "more active use" of Tasers, a Korean Air spokesperson told CNN.
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In its place are two new generation Tasers, the two-shot X2 and the single-shot X26P.
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Over the years the city has purchased SWAT equipment, police vehicles, radios and Tasers with the money.
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Over the years, the city has purchased SWAT equipment, police vehicles, radios and Tasers with the money.
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Cops (or robbers) in training They stole three police vehicles and Tasers and started a police chase.
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Today, the company sells Tasers that deliver half the maximum electrical charge of its former flagship weapon.
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San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said Tasers were discharged at Okobi three to four times.
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Police also used tasers at the protesters and arrested at least 10, according to a Reuters witness.
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The airline said it will also hire more male flight attendants and review its use of Tasers.
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He promptly equips officers with drones, souped-up tasers and a smartphone app for instantaneous police response.
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Tasers also are barred by the two largest private prison operators, Core Civic Inc and GEO Group Inc.
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Like scores of other fatal police encounters involving Tasers, Lucky Phounsy's death began with a call for help.
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In 2015 alone, law enforcement agencies spent nearly $38 million on Tasers, according to data gathered by SmartProcure.
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The seized items included a small-bore rifle, a crossbow, mobile phones, throwing stars, Tasers and Nazi memorabilia.
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As Tasers have become a common weapon in U.S. policing, so too have legal cases like Everette Howard's.
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The police have tasers, the police have guns, the police have pepper spray, and the police have handcuffs.
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They barged into the apartment immediately, demanded Oakry put his hands behind his back, and drew their Tasers.
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The man, who was not identified, was arrested on Holloway Road, north London, after the police discharged Tasers.
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According to the Cincinnati Police Department's procedure manual, Tasers may be used on children as young as 7.
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At least two deputies fired their Tasers with a total of four discharges between them, Mr. Wagstaffe said.
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Sterling did not comply, according to the document, so officers tried to restrain him and deployed their Tasers.
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Yet police have repeatedly used Tasers on people who fall into the very groups the company warns about.
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Tasers were discharged at Okobi three to four times, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Stephen Wagstaff.
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Yet, as Reuters investigative series on Tasers revealed, police continue to fire their stun guns at the vulnerable.
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The policy is designed to give cabin crew more leeway in the decision to use tasers, Zhang reports.
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Tasers can and do kill, and police cameras may be conveniently turned off when police use brutal force.
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The only exception to this rule were guns: police officers did not make meaningful switches from guns to Tasers.
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The deputies responded with the use of Tasers in order to force Mr. Sherman to comply with their commands.
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He allegedly resisted arrest, fighting with officers who had to use batons and Tasers to subdue him, Holcombe says.
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Despite being armed with Tasers, Marx insisted that the Korean Air crew had no idea how to use them.
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The woman panicked as she told the 911 operator cops should bring "tasers and tranquilizers" to take down Lindholm.
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The third-shift officers arrived in full riot gear, camo green uniforms, tasers, pepper spray, and head-mounted lights.
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At $1,399.99 per unit, Axon's tasers are expensive, and they need new cartridges every time a taser is fired.
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However, hand guns, rifles and tasers are kept in their vehicles and can be used with a supervisor's permission.
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Reuters documented 1,005 deaths involving Tasers, often in combination with other force and nearly all since the early 2000s.
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Ho has been a company consultant since 2004 and has written scores of studies, presentations and papers on Tasers.
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Though the guns were designed to be nonlethal, many people shot with Tasers died, miring the company in controversy.
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Tasers are used in situations when subjects would otherwise be wrestled to the ground, hit with batons or shot.
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By the end of 2003, more than 4,300 police agencies had Tasers – a four-fold increase in two years.
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National Guard and INM officers deployed poles, water hoses, pepper spray and Tasers against migrants, according to the groups.
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Tasers could not be used on inmates in handcuffs, leg irons or a restraint chair, or on pregnant women.
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The questions raised by Franklin's death mirror larger concerns surrounding the use of Tasers in correctional settings, particularly local jails.
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The police chief has called for his force to be equipped with Tasers to prevent similar shootings in the future.
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The company has issued warnings to police, encouraging officers to show restraint when using Tasers on people with mental illnesses.
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There are also concerns that Tasers are occasionally misused or overused by officers, sometimes with fatal consequences, the website says.
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With Korean Air and tasers, that is not a consideration because few passengers knew that they were stowed on board.
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According to police, he then charged at the officers, and was struck by tasers — which seemed to have no effect.
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In addition to the three vehicles, police also recovered two Tasers, two police radios and a bulletproof vest, he said.
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But Tasers are not designed for medical purposes, so research around them isn't necessarily held to the same academic rules.
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The New York City Correction Department has purchased 20143 Tasers, which will be in use within a month, he said.
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In Baltimore, police used Tasers 47 percent fewer times last year than in 2015, according to records reviewed by Reuters.
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The Police Department hopes the wider availability of Tasers will reduce police shootings by providing officers a less dangerous fallback.
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Amnesty International said that between 2001 and 2012, 540 people in the United States died after police encounters involving Tasers.
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Behind the legal battles lies a troubling truth: Many police officers remain unaware that Tasers have the potential to kill.
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Detainees have been shocked with Tasers and tortured with barbed wire and attempted strangulation, the United Nations rights office said.
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Somaloofa Earth has another solution: Tasers are a decent solution for both pro and not pro teacher getting gun people.
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Lance Wallace, a university spokesman, said Georgia Tech campus police do not carry Tasers but they do carry pepper spray.
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Many in the police community say Tasers nevertheless offer a valuable option for controlling combative subjects without resorting to firearms.
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Does equipping security guards with Tasers and guns make hospitals safer for staff members, visitors and patients — and under what circumstances?
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"Tasers are not risk free but they are proven safer than batons, fists, take downs, tackles, and impact munitions," said Tuttle.
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Following a re-training of patrol officers in 2012, cops frequently substituted Tasers for minor, intermediate, and major uses of force.
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The figure was 40% higher than any previous estimates, even as Reuters used much stricter methodology for attributing harm to Tasers.
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I saw a family of 16 beaten to the ground, children ripped out of parents' arms, Tasers pointed at fathers' chests.
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The report says that South Korea's national carrier is the only big airline known to fly with such tasers on board.
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The suspect remains hospitalized following a series of attempts, including tasers and a police dog, made by police to control him.
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But after a midair disturbance last week, the airline has decided to loosen up rules for when Tasers can be used.
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Normally, Tasers can be used as a nonlethal alternative to deadly force in situations where deadly force would nonetheless be justified.
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In the short term, police need better training in the use of non-lethal means of incapacitating suspects, such as tasers.
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Axon, a manufacturer of tasers and body cameras for police officers, said that it could not "ethically justify" commercializing facial recognition.
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Highly visible patrols armed with handguns as well as semi-automatic rifles and tasers will be stationed around the capital's landmarks.
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Tasers sound like an invention taken from science fiction, and as it turns out, the name of the device actually was.
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Reuters collected autopsy results for 712 of the more than 1,000 deaths it documented in police incidents where Tasers were used.
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Tasers, which have been around since the 1990s, shoot darts that create an electrical current, temporarily incapacitating a suspect's muscle functions.
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Courts have held that police departments, not Taser, are responsible for deciding how and when Tasers are used in the field.
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The company asserted there was no conclusive scientific evidence at the time linking Tasers to cardiac arrest or other fatal conditions.
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Four dozen prisoners, and no one had moved except the two checkpoint guards, who had their pepper spray and Tasers aimed.
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Company trainers touted the tasers as safe, encouraging officers to use them early and often to prevent bad situations from escalating.
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The rapper and his girl are clearly agitated, and the intense exchange boils over when the cops pull out their tasers!
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Ever since 2003, when one of the two companies making tasers bought out the other, there has effectively been a taser monopoly.
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The law, following similar legislation in Connecticut, lays out parameters for using Tasers on people struggling with mental illness or emotional crises.
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The items seized by police on Wednesday included a rifle, a crossbow, data carriers, mobile phones, tasers, throwing stars and Nazi paraphernalia.
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A man faced off with at least 4 cops outside of Catch Saturday night ... and lost hard when they fired their tasers.
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Over the years, the department has experimented with plastic shields, netting and Tasers to deal with emotionally disturbed people, Mr. Louden said.
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Tasers, which deliver electric shocks through barbed wires, will be distributed to captains in a unit specially trained to respond to emergencies.
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Smith's company typically disputed responsibility for fatalities, twice suing the offices of medical examiners who named Tasers as a cause of death.
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Ed Davis, Boston police chief from 7063 to 2013, said the litany of restrictions helped drive his decision not to issue Tasers.
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The old policy meant Tasers could only be used when lives or the physical safety of passengers and cabin crew was threatened.
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The department is relying more on tasers and bean-bag guns, and will retrain its officers on use of force best practices.
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Guards used Tasers at least 180 times from January 2008 to May 2010, often on prisoners posing "no threat," the lawsuit contended.
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But some studies have shown there is no evidence that the adoption of Tasers reduces the use of firearms by police officers.
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From Tasers to police cameras, the technology that's supposed to prevent police from lethally harming the public often doesn't work that way.
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For me, the big question that remains is just how many patients are threatened or shot with Tasers or guns in hospitals today.
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Deaths involving Tasers behind bars are more likely to result in lawsuits and public payouts than cases outside the prison system, Reuters found.
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The team studied data from the Chicago Police Department starting in 2010, when the city's police force began issuing Tasers to patrol officers.
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MAN ASKED TO LEAVE RESTAURANT BECAUSE OF &aposLARGE&apos CROSS NECKLACE, HE CLAIMS Police deployed their Tasers, but they didn't stop the suspect.
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An investigation by the Baltimore Sun last year found huge discrepancies in the ways that different departments in Maryland use and misuse tasers.
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The airline elaborated to CNN that this meant "more active use" of Tasers in the future, but didn't go into much more detail.
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And even though tasers were once marketed as "non-lethal" weapons, they've nonetheless played a role in more than 1,13 deaths and counting.
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But that isn't exactly how they've been used, with some police departments deploying Tasers to force compliance in incidents where they aren't needed.
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Rather, they climbed into the backseat where Chase was buckled, handcuffed him, and threatened to shoot him before deploying their Tasers several times.
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Duke spoke about the Black Lives Matter protestors as "radicals who are destroying America" as cops reportedly deployed pepper-spray and Tasers outside.
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Saw cops hit multiple people hit and knock them down inc my friends, & the state arms them w/ guns & tasers and batons & worse.
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Wetli said excited delirium is a genuine condition and that the "vast majority" of deaths involving Tasers he studied were caused by it.
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Between 2008 and Hernandez-Llach's death in 2013, at least four other people died in Miami-Dade County in police encounters with Tasers.
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The panel upheld the officers' immunity but put departments "on notice" that unless someone poses "an immediate safety risk," Tasers can't be used.
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The 161-page report said use of excessive force by Chicago police included officers shooting at fleeing suspects and using Tasers on children.
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The impression left by the article that the Police Department is cavalierly using Tasers on people who are passively resistant is likewise unfounded.
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It is hard to see how a group of officers with Tasers could have ended up using lethal force against a sick woman.
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But their safe use requires a great deal of training, and there are concerns that Tasers are occasionally misused or overused by officers.
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In more than 150 of those cases, the Tasers were a cause or contributing factor to the people's deaths, the news organization reported.
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Reuters identified 13 cases in which people 65 and older – the eligibility age for Medicare – died after being stunned by police with Tasers.
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Axon has warned since 211 that people agitated or intoxicated by drugs may face higher risks of medical consequences from Tasers' electrical current.
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A man who was shocked with Tasers after resisting officers at a Southwest Miami-Dade Wendy's made his first appearance in court, Friday morning.
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Presumably, part of the investigation will hinge on whether the officers used their tasers in a manner that was within the department's own guidelines.
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In 413, Vermont passed a law limiting the circumstances under which police can deploy Tasers and setting training standards for officers who carry them.
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Over the years, Chicago has used the grants they could lose — known as Byrne JAG funds — to buy SWAT equipment, police vehicles, and tasers.
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The moment the doors of the Belgian-built 1920s Art Deco building close, the cops rush the crowd, firing tear gas and waving tasers.
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We wanted to make a statement about the Chicago police department's uniquely violent ways and their use of tasers, which is what killed Damo.
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To calm them down, he tells his flock that the Bible advises them to trust in the Lord, rather than in shotguns and Tasers.
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The district attorney's report said Tasers were "cycled or discharged 15 times," with an electrical charge delivered in at least half the Taser deployments.
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In theory, with a data port, cops would use their Tasers more conscientiously, knowing that each deployment would be recorded and subject to review.
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He called on residents to support officers and promised more accountability for the police, with the addition of more body cameras, Tasers and training.
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It's also an indicator of where the company, known for Tasers, body-worn cameras and, more recently, enterprise software for law enforcement, is headed.
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State mental health facilities typically do not allow guns or Tasers on their premises; even police officers are asked to check weapons at the door.
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Some federal courts have held that Tasers should only be used on actively aggressive subjects, a view being adopted by a growing number of departments.
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In rare cases it could be fatal, but the same could be said for Tasers, batons, or as Eric Garner's family can attest, bare hands.
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As I google full-body mosquito nets and shark tasers, I begin to wonder just how worried I need to be about these alleged hazards.
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That policy emphasizes officer training in de-escalation and problem-solving tactics, and promotes the use of less lethal tools like pepper spray and tasers.
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Armed with knives and close-range tasers (with a special 30-second recharge), players run around Safehouse trying to get up-close-and-personal kills.
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One worry is that Cleveland's new rules on when its officers can shoot, or use Tasers and chemical spray, won't take effect until January 1.
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Otherwise, police would be required to use verbal warnings, Tasers, and other de-escalation tactics to defuse a situation before resorting to more lethal methods.
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"It is a fictitious term," said Werner Spitz, a forensic pathologist who has testified on behalf of families of people killed in incidents involving Tasers.
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When Skinner joined the police force, everyone in his class was given a pistol, but none were given Tasers, because the department had run out.
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In a few instances in which people died after Tasers were used, civil rights lawyers litigating the episodes said the police had withheld crucial facts.
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Since the death, Rasche has ordered all officers to undergo "crisis intervention training," emphasizing de-escalation strategies in lieu of using force such as Tasers.
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" Melzer agreed Tasers "can be a justifiable tool for prison guards as an alternative to a gun to incapacitate a person who poses a threat.
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Police saw Tasers as offensive weapons; corrections officials wanted a defensive tool – and one that couldn't be used against guards if inmates got hold of it.
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There is "no evidence" that the adoption of Tasers reduces police use of firearms, according to a study released this week from the University of Chicago.
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Many cities have recently decided to give Tasers a second chance after police use of force led to public unrest in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri.
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The weapons are popular among police but have been criticized by groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, mainly because of deaths caused by Tasers.
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The bureau seizes around 23,000 weapons each year and also has more than 35,000 firearms, Tasers and silencers in its own inventory, according to the report.
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When police officers fired their tasers, African-Americans were targeted 76 percent of the time, compared with 13 percent for Hispanics and 8 percent for whites.
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Across the United States, wrongful death lawsuits involving Tasers have created a body of case law restricting the use of a weapon that reshaped law enforcement.
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The idea, he told me, came from the Baltimore Police Department, which was resisting Tasers out of a concern that officers would abuse people with them.
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The city would now add to the number of officers carrying Tasers and other alternatives to guns; it would expand the use of wearable body cameras.
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A few months after the Heston verdict, Amnesty International issued a report documenting more than 26 cases in which people died after being shocked with Tasers.
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The video shows how a domestic violence call escalated within seconds of the officers' arrival, when they barged into his apartment and immediately drew their Tasers.
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But, as in the case of Mr. Bessner and some others, Tasers can be deadly, and some police departments have a complicated history with the weapons.
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A Reuters investigation published in 2017 found that more than 1,000 people in the United States had died after being stunned with Tasers, largely since 2000.
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As required by Seattle police policy, both officers were equipped on Sunday with "less-lethal force options," the police said, but they did not have Tasers.
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Only five hospitals nationally were cited in 2018 for the improper use of Tasers; the two in Vermont were the only ones outside major urban areas.
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But whether Tasers are truly reducing law enforcement's use of deadly force remains questionable in a nation where 20 percent of arrests entail some use of force.
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The new $400 weapon is impressively tiny, but according to Taser's press materials, it has the same knockdown power as the conventional Tasers used by law-enforcement.
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You'll hear from the family that they immediately came in aggressive, they didn't try to talk him down and immediately resorted to using their Tasers on him.
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Tasers are not listed by the British government as lethal weapons, and they are excluded from the annual figures documenting the use of firearms by the police.
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The court's ruling aligns with human rights groups, including Amnesty International, who say Tasers should be used only in situations posing a threat of injury or death.
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But some police watchdog groups and civil rights lawyers argue that with wider access to the weapons, officers may use Tasers even when they face little danger.
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Officers breached the door and fired Tasers and a rubber bullet at Mr. Bah, without "visible effect," a Police Department spokesman said a day after the episode.
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They must also weed out those few officers who use excessive force against citizens, and realize that tasers and guns are not the solution to every infraction.
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After several minutes, when Oakry was backed into a corner of the apartment, three officers deployed their Tasers at the same time while Oakry held the child.
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More than 13,600 of the Police Department's 36,000 uniformed officers are now trained to use Tasers, up from nearly 10,000 last year, the department said on Tuesday.
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Last week Emanuel announced plans to train all officers in communication and "de-escalation tactics" and double the number of cops carrying Tasers from 700 to 1,400.
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Tasers, said Mr. Alpert, the criminologist, are often used by the police more freely than firearms when officers are seeking to get someone to comply with orders.
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Most techniques police officers use to restrain suspects—like handcuffs, Tasers, and tackling moves—are not considered medically appropriate for a person suffering from mental health problems.
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Data collected by Reuters underline that risk: More than 22001 percent of 22016,224 people who died in police confrontations involving Tasers were either drunk or on drugs.
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Police departments have come to rely on Tasers because they are not considered as deadly as firearms, but in many cases, they have been just as lethal.
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As thousands of police forces across America have embraced Tasers, the outlines of the Schrock case have grown familiar: a Taser shot, an unintended death, a damage claim.
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Tasers "are being used far more frequently than policymakers and police administrators originally envisioned," Thomas Nolan, a criminologist at the Merrimack College of Massachusetts, told Vox in 2015.
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The city received $2.3 million from a federal grant program last year to buy SWAT equipment, police cars, radios, and tasers, according to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office.
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The disturbing video, taken by the officers' body cameras as they repeatedly shocked the man with their Tasers, is the latest to capture a death involving the police.
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Now the Police Department, under different leadership and amid national anger over police killings of unarmed black men, is easing its limits on Tasers, which shoot electrified barbs.
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The March ruling signaled that the 2008 decision, known as the Heller case, may apply to modern electronic weapons such as Tasers, as well as handguns and rifles.
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Arizona police officers used their Tasers on an unarmed black man as he held his one-year-old child in his arms, newly released body camera footage shows.
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The officers fired Tasers and a rubber bullet at Mr. Bah, who, armed with a knife, continued to advance and stabbed two of the officers in their vests.
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Axon's warnings and guidelines are not binding on police departments, and while more than 90 percent of police agencies deploy Tasers, there are no universal standards for usage.
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The report highlighted "troubling" findings and issued stern recommendations: The police should create an annual report on the use of Tasers and prohibit their use on handcuffed suspects.
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From 2250 to 2500, 22 deputies at the Franklin County Jail used Tasers on 80 inmates, according to a Reuters review of the jail's "use of force" reports.
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Tasers are marketed as nonlethal alternatives for law enforcement, but a new investigation shows that stun gun use in U.S. prisons has caused an alarming number of deaths.
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Surveillance footage in the jail and from cameras attached to the Deputies' tasers shows the Deputies repeatedly tasering Norris, even after he had been restrained in a chair.
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We would never tolerate violent responses to people experiencing physical health emergencies in hospitals, and we should not tolerate Tasers and bullets aimed at people experiencing mental health emergencies.
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The number of firearms operations declined by 36% between 2009 and 2016, possibly as a result of wider use of non-lethal weapons such as Tasers by the police.
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The 2009 incident is among hundreds documented by Reuters in which Tasers have been misused or linked to accusations of torture or corporal punishment in U.S. prisons and jails.
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Yet Tasers remain widely used in local jails, which house about a third of all American prisoners and whose administrators often struggle to contain systematic abuse of the weapon.
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The guidelines also advise officers to avoid resorting to Tasers for "pain compliance" – a technique aimed at forcing people to obey orders through a jolt of often-searing agony.
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Since the official introduction of Tasers in 2004, their popularity among the police has risen and they are now used in all 43 police forces in England and Wales.
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To protect their corridors, 52 percent of medical centers reported that their security personnel carried handguns and 2000 percent said they used Tasers, according to a 240 national survey.
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Last year, a Florida judge ruled that its executives had "engaged in a pattern of bad faith behavior" and ordered a permanent injunction barring it from selling Phazzer tasers.
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As national attention to fatal police shootings of black men and women has increased in recent years, Tasers were regularly discussed as a safer, nonlethal alternative for police officers.
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On-board crew already have had Tasers on hand for years but could only use them when lives or the physical safety of passengers and cabin crew was threatened.
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Other appeals courts have ruled differently regarding these weapons, with most finding that police officers have more leeway to use Tasers even when there is not an imminent threat.
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In the end, no one was charged in the death because of the way Florida, like some other states, categorizes Tasers – as a "less lethal" form of police force.
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In most cases, shocks from Tasers are not listed by medical examiners as a primary cause of death – drugs, mental health issues and other medical conditions are, records show.
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There is a need to reevaluate "the proper role for Tasers and how and when they are engaged," Dave Pine, a member of the Board of Supervisors told Reuters.
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Horrified by the mistreatment her brother endured in a Los Angeles county jail—including beatings, tasers, and choking—Khan-Cullors created the Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in 2011.
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Amid the protests, Mr. Emanuel pledged to equip all patrol officers with Tasers and body cameras, and he spoke in frank terms about inequity and distrust in the police.
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The series offered an in-depth examination of the toll of deaths and litigation linked to Tasers, the most widely used "less lethal" weapon in the arsenal of U.S. police.
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Tasers can "make correctional environments significantly safer for all parties," said Steve Tuttle, vice president of communications for Axon Enterprise Inc, which changed its name this year from Taser International.
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In January 20113, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, covering five eastern states, prohibited using Tasers for pain compliance in the absence of an "immediate danger" to the officer.
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"We did not provide Tasers to replace firearms and if you ask any expert in the field, they'll tell you that you don't bring a knife to a gun fight."
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Taser says these tallies give an exaggerated picture of the weapons' hazards because they suggest Tasers caused all those deaths, when most involved other types of police force as well.
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But Tasers are often used against unarmed civilians, not people who could easily kill a police officer, according to the Coalition for Taser Free Berkeley, an anti-tasing advocacy group.
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Police found the third patrol car parked in front of a residence near the neighborhood where the two other vehicles had been spotted, and recovered two Tasers and two radios.
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He combed through 6,000 incident reports from Houston, including all the shootings, incidents involving Tasers and a sample in which lethal force could have justifiably been used but was not.
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Since then, the Justice Department has started its investigation, the use of body cameras and Tasers has been expanded, and city leaders have announced plans to hire hundreds more officers.
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Reuters now has documented a total of at least 1,081 U.S. deaths following use of Tasers, almost all since the weapons began coming into widespread use in the early 2000s.
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"I hope this becomes a catalyst for more informed conversations" about police encounters with unarmed black men and the mentally ill as well as the use of Tasers on suspects.
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Eric Young, president of the Council of Prisons Locals, representing 30,20083 employees in federal prisons, said when union members asked federal prison officials about getting Tasers, they typically got two responses.
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The weapons are often promoted as a safer alternative to guns, largely thanks to studies like a 2011 US Department of Justice report showing Tasers lower injury rates when used properly.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police said on Monday they would go on strike because part of the force will be given tasers for a trial period without proper guidance for their use.
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The child-sized bulletproof vests are adorned with cartoon characters Pikachu, Care Bears and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, while the lunch boxes are filled with replica guns, Tasers and brass knuckles.
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New Tasers and body cameras are also being given to officers throughout the department, and new training for veteran officers has already started incorporating new use-of-force policies, he said.
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In a search warrant affidavit seeking surveillance video from the store, Detective R. Cook wrote that the Baton Rouge officers deployed their Tasers after Sterling did not comply with their orders.
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According to prosecutors, Eberhart and Weems shocked Towns with Tasers more than a dozen times when he refused to walk to a patrol car as he was being taken into custody.
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Firefighters continue to battle wildfires in Southern California, U.S. State Department data shows plummeting refugee admissions and the U.N. urges an investigation into the use of Tasers following a Reuters report.
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Taser's move made sense: if the instructions go unchallenged, some police departments could change use-of-force policies to place Tasers more in line with firearms than with less-lethal devices.
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Whereas soldiers fighting rebels in the east do so with ancient weapons, the police in opposition strongholds such as Lubumbashi are smartly equipped with brand new equipment, such as the tasers.
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For Aunt Lydia and Serena Joy, the violence that June and the rest of the Handmaids experience every day — the rapes, the beatings, the maimings, the proddings with Tasers — is incidental.
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Tasers did not lead to a decline in gun use, as marketed; they became instead a new tool for police abuse, employed against nonthreatening people for failure to follow officers' commands.
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In addition to an array of technical equipment, including walkie-talkies, tasers and jammers, they were carrying syringes, staplers and a "sharp object that looked like a scalpel," the newspaper reported.
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Mr. Wagstaffe said that in his roughly four decades as a San Mateo prosecutor, the office had investigated about four fatal instances of police use of Tasers, but never filed charges.
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A second bill, also approved by both chambers, would ban the export of crowd-control munitions, including tear gas, rubber bullets, stun guns and tasers, to the Hong Kong police force.
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Yet people in those groups account for more than half of the 1,20013 cases identified by Reuters in which people died after being shocked by Tasers, often along with other force.
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The shooting led to numerous protests and calls for the firing of Greg Suhr, San Francisco's police chief, who has said his officers should be equipped with Tasers to prevent similar shootings.
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Reuters identified 104 deaths involving Tasers behind bars, nearly all since 2000 – 000 percent of a larger universe of more than 1,000 fatal law enforcement encounters in which the weapons were used.
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Look closely at Snuggies for the Revolution and you'll find kaleidoscopic rubber bullets, tasers, tear gas, police batons, and grenade launchers emblazoned on what might be the absolute embodiment of American consumerism.
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Earlier that day, police attempted to remove water protectors from private property — using pepper spray, as well as tasers, rubber bullets, and sound canons, according to an eyewitness account in Mother Jones.
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Tasers are a growing concern among legal and law enforcement experts who worry that police departments often readily outfit their officers with the devices with little training or knowledge about their dangers.
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Last month, a hospital security officer shot a patient with bipolar illness in Lynchburg, Va. Two psychiatric patients died, one in Utah, another in Ohio, after guards repeatedly shocked them with Tasers.
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" The definition of weapon is expansive, and includes not just actual guns but also paintball guns, pepper spray, "non-culinary" knives, Tasers, batons, and the broad category "weapons intended for self-defense.
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Axon's tasers have been criticized for being effective only a little more than half the time with some departments, and they are notorious for failing to work when someone's wearing a coat.
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Tom Schrock's death is one tragedy in a larger constellation of fatalities involving Tasers explored by Reuters in a first-of-its-kind examination of deaths and lawsuits involving the stun guns.
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The new law also foresees the use of electric tasers for the first time by local police, and increases jail time for people who promote illegal occupations of public or private buildings.
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Those instructions were a big deal, setting policing precedent for departments in five states, and potentially leading the way for much more stringent rules about how Tasers are used by police nationwide.
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While just 5 percent of agents report having been attacked on the job, more than half regularly carry a weapon for self-defense, the most popular being pepper spray, firearms and tasers.
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" A recent Reuters investigation found that, since 1983, a thousand and five people had died in the United States in incidents that involved Tasers, as part of a "larger mosaic of force.
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The guards are rude to them, they said, they speak to them in angry tones, they use tasers on them, they didn't allow the celiac woman to keep her gluten-free food.
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They've burst out of giant water balloons, played around with tasers and blasted flamethrowers into the air — and while their latest experiment is more low key, it's just as cool to look at.
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But in real-life law enforcement, supposedly non-lethal methods of restraint like Tasers can actually result in more deaths, because police deploy them casually in instances where they wouldn't shoot their guns.
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Tasers generally only function properly if the shooter's target happens to be within 15 feet or so of the shooter, and if the darts get close enough to (or impale) the target's skin.
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Kroll, who disclosed his tie, was part of a presentation that noted Tasers satisfy "all relevant safety standards" and counseled medical examiners to lean toward excluding the weapons as a cause of death.
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The Police Department has deployed Tasers more than 1,000 times in the past five years, resulting in two deaths, both attributable to powerful drugs taken by the subjects before the Taser was used.
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Citing the risks of fatalities, the panel concluded that Tasers should be deployed only "when the subject is causing" or "will imminently cause bodily harm" – a threshold police departments often use for guns.
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Once you've gone past fists, Tasers, and batons, and gotten to the gun, you are no longer in the realm of trying to preserve the attacker's life; you're trying to preserve your own.
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As police departments have become more aware of Tasers' risks and limitations, a growing number have restricted their use, says Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) think tank.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gun rights group filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday challenging a New Jersey law that bans private individuals from owning stun guns, Tasers and other electronic weapons as unconstitutional.
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The embattled city agreed last week to accept 1,300 free police body cameras — enough for the whole force — from Axon, the company that makes Tasers, as part of a one-year trial program.
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The embattled city agreed last week to accept 285,22015 free police body cameras — enough for the whole force — from Axon, the company that makes Tasers, as part of a one-year trial program.
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"We have hit a period of great concern regarding Tasers," said Wagstaff, adding that Okobi's death was the county's third since December during law enforcement encounters that involved the high-voltage stun guns.
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The proposals aim to provide a clearer definition of police force and require independent justification each time a "tool" is used in a force event, such as the deployment of sprays, Tasers and batons.
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The attorney said that the family plans to file a civil suit and that there were "two failures" — the officer who decided to open fire, and Georgia Tech's not providing its officers with tasers.
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Public discourse over Tasers' safety has been especially heated in San Francisco, where the Board of Supervisors voted in June to block funding for the police department's long-debated plan to purchase the weapons.
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In January, judges on a federal circuit court instructed police departments to treat Tasers similarly to the way they treat firearms — as deadly weapons that can't be used when someone is merely resisting arrest.
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If you have any kind of phobia of slimy, snakelike creatures that can rise from the water and use their bodies like Tasers, this story — and the accompanying video — may not be for you.
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She also called for a moratorium on the use of Tasers in San Mateo County and the creation of a permanent independent police review body to investigate officer-involved killings and use of force.
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The latter appears to refer to Axon Capture, an app — developed by a company that sells body cameras and Tasers — that allows users to submit photos, audio, or video directly to local police appears.
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A law enforcement technology company, Axon has broadened its specialty from non-lethal weapons like tasers to evidence capture technology, specifically audio recorders and body cameras complete with evidence management and computer-vision software.
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Experts consulted by Reuters about the use of Tasers behind bars echoed what many said when scrutinizing the details of McKenna's death: that the use of a stun-gun in that context wasn't necessary.
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Tasers have "high potential for abuse" behind bars, said U.S. Justice Department consultant Steve Martin, a former general counsel for the Texas Department of Corrections who has inspected more than 500 U.S. prisons and jails.
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"I am not a huge fan of putting Tasers and batons on our employees, given the risks that are created," Harley Lappin, then the chief of the Bureau of Prisons, told Congress in July 2009.
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Would it be more ethical, for example, to arm robots with less lethal weapons such as tasers or pepper spray, in order to incapacitate a suspect, or are the ethics involved with that also shady?
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While Mr. Bratton's predecessor, Raymond W. Kelly, had been skeptical of Tasers, Mr. Bratton saw a tool that could lead to fewer shootings by the police in New York, which are already at historic lows.
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And he just looked away when a man strolling in front of his house ditched a knife behind a parked car, only to be confronted by two police officers, with Tasers drawn, who arrested him.
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She has also made the case that Alexo is not just restricted to selling firearms-related apparel; the company promotes women's self-defense holistically and has featured models with pepper blasters, Tasers, and stun guns.
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For hefty fees, the government said, the defendants would snatch reluctant husbands from the streets, would tie them up and beat them and sometimes shock them with Tasers until they agreed to divorce their wives.
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Don't hold an objectI get that officers have tasers with great de-escalating, limb-aiming abilities, but if you're rocking a screwdriver that'll put the fear in three or more able-bodied crime-fighting professionals.
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When Tasers are misused in correctional settings, taxpayers also pay a price: 68 percent of the 104 inmate fatalities identified by Reuters led to wrongful death lawsuits against the county or municipality responsible for the jail.
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Precincts have started adopting or increasing their use of less-than-lethal force – including pepper spray and Tasers – in an effort to reduce injury and death while still giving police options when facing would-be assailants.
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The company asserts that only 24 people have ever died from Tasers – 18 from fatal head or neck injuries in falls caused by a Taser strike, and six from fires sparked by the weapon's electrical arc.
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Police departments around the United States have faced numerous wrongful death civil lawsuits attributed to Tasers or use of the stun guns as part of an overall use of force by officers leading to a death.
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Realizing the Tasers were not effective and that they could not "gain control of" Trammell on their own, the officers went into the apartment hallway, leaving Trammell inside the apartment until backup arrived, the report said.
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Civil-liberties and anti-torture groups have long complained that police officers, rather than resorting to Tasers strictly as an alternative to deadly force, often use them in situations that would never warrant firing a gun.
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More officers have received crisis-intervention training to assist the mentally ill, all patrol officers will soon carry Tasers and more than 450 body cameras were shipped to Chicago recently as the department tests those devices.
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Now a full time YouTuber, his videos continue to draw in millions of hits as he repeatedly apologizes for finding and filming dead bodies in Japan's Aokigahara (the 'suicide forest') or discharging tasers on dead rats.
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Among the options to be discussed are increasing the number of armed response vehicles and handing more officers Tasers or giving guns to those at key locations, though the council does not plan to make policy proposals.
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While Tasers can be an effective way to stop an assault on a guard or another inmate, veterans of the corrections system say the weapons too frequently are used on people who pose no imminent physical threat.
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Courts generally see Tasers as reasonable for controlling inmates who actively resist, such as violently thrashing to avoid being handcuffed, and they almost never question the weapons' use if resistance poses an imminent physical threat to others.
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When Tasers began gaining popularity with police in the early 2000s, the company touted the weapons as an effective and relatively safe way to control people suffering a mental health crisis or intoxicated by drugs or alcohol.
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According to the Post report, dozens of people in 2015 (an average of roughly one per week) had died "in incidents in which police used Tasers," including in some cases when officers used the "drive-stun" mode.
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Reuters documented 1,005 incidents in the United States in which people died after police stunned them with Tasers, nearly all since the early 2000s and typically in incidents that also involved other force, from chokeholds to beatings.
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The Tasers police buy are not considered consumer or workplace products, so the company's safety declarations and warnings are not regulated by agencies such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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Each incident violated the jail's Taser policy, and each was cited in a class-action lawsuit the county settled that accused jail guards of "sadistic" and unconstitutional use of Tasers from 22009 to 247, court records show.
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At trade shows, manufacturers show off prototype policing robots armed with everything from tear gas to Tasers to shotguns firing rubber bullets to — in one case — an electric cattle prod (this was a Chinese riot control robot).
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Reuters documented 393,005 incidents in the United States in which people died after police stunned them with Tasers, nearly all since the early 2000s – the most thorough accounting to date of fatal encounters involving the paralyzing stun guns.
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Developed originally as a nonlethal alternative to the gun, tasers were relentlessly marketed to police departments by Taser International, a hungry start-up that stirred demand through celebrity cop endorsements and dramatic demonstrations of burly volunteers being dropped.
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There's no telling how often police use Tasers on pregnant women and the other "higher-risk populations" the manufacturer warns about: The stun guns are unregulated as police weapons, and there is no national tracking of their use.
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Tasers, used by police officers around the world, have been criticized by advocacy groups like Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union, which argue they can be lethal and have called for more stringent rules on their use.
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Korean Air crew members being trained on the use of stun guns during a media event (Screenshot via YouTube)Korean Air gives its flight attendants Tasers for extreme situations, like when the lives of passengers or crew are threatened.
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"If the same level of scrutiny was used in these use-of-force incidents as was applied to deadly use-of-force incidents, I think that would be a disincentive to using these Tasers as default self-defense weapons."
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In December, Emanuel also announced a department-wide shake-up of the city's police force, including plans to train all officers in communication and "de-escalation tactics" and double the number of cops carrying Tasers from 700 to 1,400.
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Eberhart and Weems shocked Gregory Towns, 24, with Tasers more than a dozen times in April when he refused to walk to a patrol car as he was being taken into custody after a reported domestic dispute, prosecutors said.
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The New Jersey lawsuit said more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies around the world use Tasers, which typically fire wires up to 25 feet long with probes that embed themselves into people's skin, letting officers deliver debilitating electric charges.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people in the U.S. have died after police stunned them with Tasers, and the stun gun was ruled to be a cause or contributing factor in 153 of those deaths, a Reuters examination found.
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San Bernardino County paid $22010 million this year to nearly 22011 current and former inmates to settle a series of lawsuits that included allegations Tasers were regularly used for torture at the county's West Valley Detention Center from 20153-22015.
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The Facebook posts were not specifically connected to incidents that were the subject of lawsuits, though in some cases the officers were supporting conduct, like using Tasers to subdue suspects, that could mirror the kind of conduct raised in complaints.
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At a number of trade shows, robotic systems have been displayed that mount tasers and tear gas to China's controversial Anbot, which is a police bot designed to operate autonomously and equipped with an electroshock device similar to a cattle prod.
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Last year, the department was criticized by local politicians and accused of displaying "horrible judgment" after officers used Tasers on two unarmed black men, one of whom had recently undergone spinal surgery, as they stood in their mother's living room.
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Tools of the trade include ballistic vests, pepper spray, Tasers, handguns and, for some jobs, a shotgun loaded with a beanbag that "folds you up like a newspaper", says Mike "Animal" Zook, an affable bounty-hunter in Spirit Lake, Idaho.
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The insistence that Tasers are safe, despite evidence to the contrary, has inspired a very strange thing, however: The Village of Pinehurst — which technically won in its Fourth Circuit case — is now appealing the Armstrong decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - U.S. police departments and municipalities have faced at least 435 wrongful death suits involving Tasers, leading to at least $172 million in publicly funded payouts to estates and families of those who died, a Reuters examination found.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - More than 1,000 people in the U.S. have died after police stunned them with Tasers, and the stun gun was ruled to be a cause or contributing factor in 153 of those deaths, a Reuters examination found.
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Explaining the decision, in 2006, to add cameras to Tasers, Steve Tuttle said that, while the data port made it impossible for suspects to lie about how many times they had been hit, they could still lie about the circumstances.
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The deaths typically draw little public scrutiny – no government agency tracks how often Tasers are used or how many of those deployments prove fatal, and coroners and medical examiners use varying standards to assess a Taser's role in a death.
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All patrol officers have been equipped with Tasers and body cameras, rules for when officers can shoot have been tightened and, on Thursday, city officials agreed to a court-enforced consent decree that would require an overhaul of the Police Department.
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After watching his best friend die in an armed robbery, Gideon Reeves (Justin Kirk), a tech billionaire, takes command of a dysfunctional Chicago police precinct and equips it with drones, tasers and a smartphone app to beckon cops in a heartbeat.
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A lawyer, Mr. Sells represents clients with lawsuits against the Police Department, including the family of Anthony Paul, a 29-year-old man who died after New York City officers used Tasers to subdue him during an encounter in July 2015.
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Tasers can help subdue suspects that are in close proximity, but the Police Executive Research Forum says that communication is the most "effective tool" that police have at their disposal when dealing with a distressed suspect that may be provoking attack.
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Prices for Dominoes, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns -$10 for $30 -$20 for $50 -$35 for $523 -$45 for $100#pizza #plug Inbox Last account got hacked Prices for Dominoes, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns $30 for $15 $50 for $25 $70 for $35 $100 for $50 #pizza #plug Going back to the now-legendary Domino's raid, when the college kid opened the door, "three police officers [dressed as pizza delivery guys] came up with tasers pointed at me from [the] steps, then two more from over there with tasers and guns pointed at me," the student told CBS 46.
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In the past, Chicago has used those funds to advance the police department's technology (for example, to purchase Tasers and SWAT vehicles), beef up resources to deal with a particular issue like gun crime, improve drug treatment programs, prosecutions, and so on.
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Related: Tasers Might Not Reduce Lethal Force Incidents or Injuries to Suspects After All His mother, Mary Ann Sherman, dialed 911 requesting emergency assistance and told the dispatcher that her son was having a mental breakdown and appeared to be on drugs.
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He then goes into what we must assume is called Lightning Mode and absorbs the energy of the cops' tasers, which effectively charge him up so he can blow up their car with a flick of his hand (cue aforementioned bursts of light).
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These, of course, prompt great debate that brings together elements of the robotics argument with the question over whether "less than lethal" weapons actually lead to abuse (think about the debate over Tasers; they arguably save lives, yet might be used more often).
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A review of more than 400 of the fatal encounters – those in which court documents provide a relatively detailed account of what happened – indicates Tasers were the only form of force allegedly used by police in about one in four of the cases.
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In the weeks since an off-duty Cincinnati police officer used a Taser on an 11-year old black girl, the Cincinnati Police Department has been under intense scrutiny, facing allegations of excessive force and heightened concerns about how the department uses Tasers.
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One study in the American Journal of Cardiology found that even though Tasers are considered safer than guns, Taser deployment was involved with increased in-custody sudden deaths early in the deployment period, while deaths from firearms or serious injuries did not decrease.
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Ms Patel will thus play a central role in carrying out the most important part of the government's domestic agenda outlined in the Queen's Speech on October 203th: more "bobbies on the beat", more stop and search, more tasers and longer prison sentences.
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To the surprise of many in government, the agency's Instagram account quickly attracted a sizable following among those alternately drawn to and horrified by a steady cascade of images depicting lipstick Tasers, bone knives and replicas of Freddy Krueger's ghoulish bladed gloves.
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The cases reflect a fundamental challenge of using Tasers in correctional settings: The weapons, designed to control violent or threatening suspects on the street, have fewer legitimate uses behind bars, where prisoners typically are confined in a cell, often restrained and almost never armed.
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The guidelines also state that Tasers "should not be seen as an all-purpose weapon that takes place of de-escalation techniques and other options," but rather, should only be used when there's a demonstrable risk of physical harm or death to another person.
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They have occurred as more and more American hospitals are arming guards with guns and Tasers, setting off a fierce debate among health care officials about whether such steps — along with greater reliance on law enforcement or military veterans — improve safety or endanger patients.
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" This evasion caused lively debate, with readers writing comments like, "This is wickedness to a poor, old, harmless cat," and "I am disappointed that the so called joint task force do not have tranquilizers or tasers to use on the Lion than to kill it.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday announced a new raft of reforms aimed at improving safety at the city's notorious Rikers Island jail complex, including equipping some senior officers with Tasers and installing full body scanners for visitors.
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Mr. Sells said in an interview that during the discovery phase of the lawsuit, he learned that two separate officers used Tasers on Mr. Paul, striking him a total of 13 times — six by one officer; seven by the other — over the course of 41 seconds.
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In a statement, YouTube told Mashable that monetizing videos in which Paul tasers a dead rat and takes a fish out of a pond to give it CPR (ugh) violate its advertising standards: After careful consideration, we have decided to temporarily suspend ads on Logan Paul's YouTube channels.
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Forty-year-old Joseph Garguilo of Holliston, Massachusetts, is due in court on Monday to face charges of being a prohibited person in possession of ammunition after the FBI found an arsenal at his home including parts for an assault-style rifle, six ammunition magazines, Tasers and explosives.
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A 26-year-old social media influencer is facing up to 20 years in prison after masterminding a truly batshit robbery plot, complete with hired guns, tasers, and baffling disguises—all to steal the perfect domain name, according to the US Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Iowa.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. special rapporteur on torture urged U.S. authorities to investigate and weigh criminal charges against jail officials in Ohio, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Arkansas for the "clearly gratuitous infliction of severe pain and suffering" from the use of Tasers on inmates, citing a Reuters report this week.
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They point to a number of incidents in the city's recent history, ranging from police shootings to controversial arrests caught on video to the use of Tasers on civilians, as evidence that the incident fits into a much larger pattern, one that has been disproportionately used on the city's black residents.
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"Given the amount of direct contact officers have with inmates in New York City jails, deploying Tasers to be carried by a small number of Department of Correction supervisors does little to protect officers or stem the tide of daily violence," Elias Husamudeen, the union president, said in a statement.
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Recruits also closely study the department's "use-of-force continuum," which dictates what level of force is appropriate in response to a suspect's behavior: tasers and batons can be used when a suspect is kicking or punching an officer, but generally not when a suspect is simply trying to get away.
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The report found that the department violated the constitutional rights of citizens by shooting at cars and fleeing suspects without justification, using unreasonable force — including Tasers — on people who posed no threat, using tactics that resulted in avoidable shootings and failing to investigate incidents when undue force was used against citizens.
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In July, IPRA released data showing a decline in Chicago police shootings while the use of electric stun guns, or Tasers, was up, suggesting training in non-lethal force was beginning to take hold in the department, which faces a federal investigation over its use of force and complaints of racial profiling.
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" According to the Police Executive Research Forum, which publishes law enforcement policy guidelines, Tasers should generally not be used against "pregnant women, elderly persons, young children, and visibly frail persons," and recommends that officers should evaluate whether using a taser is "reasonable, based upon all circumstances, including the subject's age and physical condition.
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Drones do seem like a useful tool for officers to use in things like search-and-rescue missions, and Axon's existing ties with police organizations as a hardware supplier (it make tasers and body cameras for police officers) means that it already has the channels and relationships to sell DJI's drones to those groups.
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The data from nearly 1,000 shifts and 50,000 hours of police-public interactions showed that when officers wore bodycams, they were less likely to use batons, Tasers, firearms and pepper spray or to have confrontations that resulted in police-dog bites, and they were far less likely to receive civilian complaints about their conduct.
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Following the three San Mateo deaths, all within nine months, the county board of supervisors and the district attorney launched ongoing reviews of the use and safety of Tasers, which were touted by police and the weapon's manufacturer as a near-perfect, "non-lethal" weapon when they began coming into widespread use more than a decade ago.
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"The handling of this report reflects poorly on the C.C.R.B. and calls into question the city's willingness to confront potentially serious problems with police use of Tasers," said Christopher T. Dunn, the associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, who reviewed the changes after being alerted to them by The New York Times.
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The investigation found Cleveland police officers frequently used excessive force, including shootings and head strikes with impact weapons; unnecessary, excessive, and retaliatory force, including Tasers, chemical sprays, and their fists; and excessive force against people with mental illness or in crisis, including one situation in which officers were called exclusively to check up on someone's well-being.
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The Justice Department, which began its investigation amid public uproar over the 22004 fatal shooting by Chicago police of 22015-year-old Laquan McDonald, said it found numerous incidents of unjustified force, including: • Shooting at fleeing suspects who presented no immediate threat; • Shooting at vehicles without justification; • Using Tasers on people who posed no threat; • Using force to retaliate against and punish people.
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But beware of what seems too good to be true: A scam on Twitter that is promising tons of free food from places like Domino's, Pizza Hut, and Chipotle for the low price of just ten bucks could lead you to end up with a bunch of undercover cops disguised as Domino's dudes storming your front door with tasers drawn.
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The Civilian Complaint Review Board, a city agency that investigates police misconduct, has found that when New York police officers fire Tasers it is usually to subdue unarmed people or those already in police custody, not to stop someone who has put the life of an officer or someone else in peril, according to a draft report obtained by The New York Times.
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"A lot has happened in law enforcement since 2006, such as in-car cameras, body-worn cameras, wider use of tasers, internal use of force tracking, development of crisis intervention teams and de-escalation training," said David Zack, president of the New York State Association of Chiefs of Police based in Schenectady and Chief of the Cheektowaga, New York Police Department.
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Op-Ed Contributor AS a report by a panel commissioned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago found on Wednesday, racism in the city's Police Department is rampant: Blacks are disproportionately subjected to traffic stops, Tasers and street stops that do not lead to arrest; they also account for an appalling 74 percent of the 404 people shot by the Chicago police between 2008 and 2015.
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In my first spring training with the Chicago Cubs, my locker in the clubhouse physically placed me between the quiet strength of the Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg, who advised through action and a whisper, and the exploding intensity of Randy Myers, an avid fan of military equipment (including the Hummer he drove before it turned "luxury"), whose locker was full of Tasers and camouflage gear.
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The cutting horror of "Hang the DJ" comes from flipping that power dynamic: Instead of choosing which people we date from a pool of attractive suitors, the episode invites us to imagine an app that not only picks our dates for us but also determines how long each of those relationships will be — complete with ominous-looking men wielding tasers to enforce the rules.
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A 236 Department of Justice investigation, which didn't look at the Rice shooting, found Cleveland police officers used excessive deadly force, including shootings and head strikes with impact weapons; unnecessary, excessive, and retaliatory force, including Tasers, chemical sprays, and their fists; and excessive force against people with mental illness or in crisis, including one situation in which officers were called exclusively to check up on someone's well-being.
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Equipment such as Tasers, pepper spray, and other bullet alternatives are designed to make police encounters less violent and deadly, yet Kelley Jr.'s case shows that they can just as easily lead to intensifying violence because the stakes for using them are lower: They're called "non-lethal" and "less-lethal" for a reason, but even so-called safer weapons can cause chaos when they're used without restraint.
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Over the course of an hour a half, her documentary (a Showtime Documentary Film, premiering September 13th) lays out a searing body of evidence that suggests McAfee not only paid a hitman $21,2200 to torture and kill his neighbor Greg Faull in Belize, but that he also had David Middleton, a local who had robbed his home, abducted, mutilated with knives and tasers, and dumped on the street to die.
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Related: Tasers Might Not Reduce Lethal Force Incidents or Injuries to Suspects After All The two county sheriff's department deputies in Georgia who killed a mentally unwell man by pinning him down and tasering him 15 times were not suspended and remain on the job, despite the ongoing investigation into the incident and the fact that a medical examiner said the man died from prolonged taser use and compression of his torso.
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Mark Wilson/Getty Images Mark Wilson/Getty Images A Department of Justice investigation, which didn't look at the Rice shooting, found Cleveland police officers used excessive deadly force, including shootings and head strikes with impact weapons; unnecessary, excessive, and retaliatory force, including Tasers, chemical sprays, and their fists; and excessive force against people with mental illness or in crisis, including one situation in which officers were called exclusively to check up on someone's well-being.
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If you want to know what can go wrong when police rely on equipment such as Tasers and pepper spray to combat petty crimes, look no further than the case of Bruce Kelley Jr. Around 3:30PM, on January 20153st this year, Bruce Kelley Jr. and his dad, Bruce Kelley Sr., both African-American, were drinking cans of beer near a public gazebo in Wilkinsburg, a small borough on the City of Pittsburgh's eastern border.
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The study, "The Science of Justice: Race, Arrests, and Police Use of Force," did not seek to determine whether the employment of force in any particular instance was justified, but the center's researchers found that the disparity in which African-Americans were subjected to police force remained consistent across what law enforcement officers call the use-of-force continuum — from relatively mild physical force, through baton strikes, canine bites, pepper spray, Tasers and gunshots.
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