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By 2019 that figure had increased to over 1,000 [38] [39] It is unclear in each case whether the Taser was the cause of death, but several legislators in the U.S. have filed bills clamping down on them and requesting more studies on their effects. [40]
In a sign of the continuing unrest gripping the United States after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, two Atlanta police officers recently lost their jobs after tasing two students from ...
Using a Taser on a child “could increase the risk of death or serious injury,” according to an instruction manual for the tool. The company does not have an exact count of how many Tasers are carried by school resource officers “because you’re talking thousands, and at some point you can’t even keep track of it,” said Steven Tuttle ...
A U.S. Olympic track and field star is facing charges in Miami Beach after he was tackled by police and tased, bodycam footage shows. However, a lawyer for Fred Kerley, 29, said the police ...
A 2017 investigative report by Reuters found that excited delirium had been listed as a factor in autopsy reports, court records or other sources in at least 276 deaths that followed taser use since 2000. The Taser manufacturing firm Axon published numerous medical studies promoting the diagnosis along with their product. [7] [8] [9]
A Florida newspaper reports that video of a mentally ill man's violent death in a county jail contradicts the sheriff office's narrative of what happened. But the public may never get to see what ...
Two University of Florida police officers attempt to grab and force Andrew Meyer out of the auditorium. Meyer was reportedly in line for access to the microphone when former Ambassador Dennis Jett, a University of Florida political science instructor and the forum's moderator, [12] announced that one more question would be taken from the microphone on the right, as seen from the stage.
A Florida sheriff’s deputy accused of Tasing a gas-soaked biker during a botched arrest — and sparking a fire that burned more than 75% of the man’s body three years ago — has been ...