Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Since my recent post on police tasering, several more incidents of police brutality have made their way to the media. Video: NYC officer beats man with metal baton. Man held down and beaten by a 2nd cop, while a 3rd cop looks on. Ozark police use stun gun on boy with broken back after fall. Apparently the boy wasn’t following their instructions, so they tasered him. Perhaps finding someone unmoving at the base of a bridge, one might consider the possibility of injury before exaccerabting t
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
TASER International, Inc., an advanced electronic control devices company, announced recently that the United States District Court issued an order granting plaintiff’s motion to voluntary dismiss TASER International with prejudice from the product liability lawsuit. For the full article.
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Police broke down the door at the home of the former mayor of Steamboat Springs and tasered her after she ignored calls to pullover and went into her house. Here’s a wonderful quote from the police chief about the incident: “I have no reason to believe the actions that were taken were not appropriate,” he said about the arrest. ”The use of the Taser is the most humanitarian tool we have. It has a low probability of injury both to the suspect and the officer.” A taser is your most humanitar
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Nova Scotia has placed an immediate interim restriction on the use of Tasers to ’situations of violent or aggressive resistance or active threat that may cause serious injury’ to a police officer or the public.
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Richard Dooley / Canwest News Service | July 10, 2008 HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has placed an immediate interim restriction on the use of Tasers to “situations of violent or aggressive resistance or active threat that may cause serious injury” to a police officer or another person. The measure was one of 16 recommendations contained in the second part of a ministerial review of Tasers released Thursday by provincial Attorney General and Justice Minister Cecil Clarke. The review was prompted by t
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