Tasers

Police Who Used Taser On Pregnant Woman Seeking Appeal To Supreme Court

The Huffington Post | Ileana Llorens | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Tasers, Excessive Force, Seattle Police Taser Pregnant Woman, Pregnant Woman Tasered, Tasing Pregnant Woman, Malaika Brooks, Malaika Brooks Pregnant Tasing, Parents News

On May 24, the U.S. Supreme Court is slated to decide whether to hear an appeal from three Seattle officers who used a Taser on a pregnant woman sever...

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Guards Brandishing Tasers Reportedly Evict Residents, Steal Naked Photos

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Private Security Guards, Naked Photos, Foreclosure Crisis, Video, Tasers, Eviction, Business News, Sacramento, Private Security Guards Sacramento Eviction, Slidepollajax, Housing Crisis, Business News

Here's another reason not to leave naked pictures lying around. Private security guards toting tasers allegedly forced nine residents of a Sacrame...

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Latino Community Remains Silent On Anastasio Hernandez Rojas

John Carlos Frey | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Tasers, Anastasio-Hernandez-Rojas, Police Brutality, John Carlos Frey, Anastasio-Hernandez-Death, Need to Know, Immigration, Border Patrol Shooting, Border Patrol, Latino Voices News

But if we cannot pressure media to play the video of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas on a loop or force the Department of Justice to investigate a two-year old case then we have no power at all.

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Man Dies After Being Tasered By Police

Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Jersey Green Aurora, Aurora Police Taser Death, Tasers, Jersey K. Green Aurora, Police Tasers, Man Dies After Police Taser, Jersey K. Green, Jersey K. Green Tasered, Police Taser Death, Chicago News

A suburban Chicago man died Monday night after he was Tasered while in police custody. Jersey K. Green, of the 700 block of Fourth Avenue in Aurora...

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I'm With Stupid: I Feel a Great Disturbance in the Force

Todd Hartley | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Mental Health, Tasers, The Force, Crime, Portland, Jedi, Star Wars, Oregon, Toys R US, Obi Wan Kenobi, Lightsabers, Comedy News

Canterbury, known to some as Obi-Wan Canternobi, must have witnessed some sort of horrible crime at a Toys "R" Us store, because he did what any honorable Jedi would do and acted to stop it -- unsheathing both of his deadly lightsabers and attacking three would-be perpetrators.

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CNN Pundit's Controversial Response To Occupy Crackdown

Posted 02.01.2012

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CNN contributor Erick Erickson responded enthusiastically after viewing video footage of an Occupy DC protester being tasered by police. "Here is ...

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Cop Fires Stun Gun, Striking Female Student In Groin

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Allentown Schools, School Officer, Tasers, Police Officers, Stun Guns, Pennsylvania Schols, School Violence, Dieruff High School, Taser Laws, Video, Police Taser, Taser, Taser Video, Tasers at School, School Taser, Students Tased, Education News

After an Allentown, Pa. police officer fired a stun gun at the groin of Keshana Wilson, a 14-year-old student, outside Dieruff High School in Septembe...

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Safest Town In America Sees Second Police-Related Death In Four Months

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Colonie, Video, Tasers, Crime News, Crime, Chad Brothers, Taser Death, New York, Death, Crime News

A 32-year-old man who allegedly went on a rampage on Monday inside gym in Colonie, N.Y., died after he was tased by police. It is the second recent po...

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Should Taser-Toting Police Officers Be Forced To Wear These Mini-Cams?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Gilbert | Posted 11.07.2011

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"When you have 60,000 Tasers out there with cops," Rick Smith, the CEO of electroshock gun manufacturer TASER International said plainly, "Some of the...

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The Journey to Fullerton: Standing by Ron Thomas

John Mirisch | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Police Brutality, Fullerton Police Department, Fullerton, Kelly Thomas, Ron Thomas, Tasers, Homelessness, Crime, Kelly Thomas Beating, Kelly Thomas Fullerton, Los Angeles News

Kelly Thomas's beating death is hardly a case of nuances. It's clear that Kelly Thomas's death should never have happened. I feel confident in saying that it couldn't, wouldn't happen in my town.

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WATCH: Cop Hit By Stolen Car, Gets Up, Tases Suspect

Posted 10.02.2011

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Dan Pascoe, an English police officer, was sent hurtling into the air after he was hit by a stolen BMW on a highway near London. That's certainly ...

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New Shooting, Same Question: Should Transit Cops Have Guns?

Turnstyle | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Politics News, Oscar Grant, Charles Hill, Police, Oakland, Bart, Youth Radio, Transit, Transit Police, Guns, Tasers, Mehserle, Cops, Media News

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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WATCH: Local Reporter Gets Tased On-Camera

Posted 05.25.2011

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Aaron Baskerville, a reporter for Michigan station WWMT, decided to channel his inner Rick Sanchez when he volunteered to be tased for a report on a d...

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Mehserle Sentencing and the Unanswered Question: Should Transit Cops Have Guns?

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mehserle, Oscar Grant, Tasers, Police, Sentance, Bart, Oakland, Youth Radio, Youthradio, Transit, Guns, Cops, Politics News

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Charlie Foster Just how long Johannes...

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Flotilla 101

Adam Chandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mediterranean, Gaza Blockade, Turkey, Gaza Strip, Tasers, Middle East, Israeli Navy, Jewish, Gaza Flotilla, Israel, World News

Last week, news about the latest aid ship aiming to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza received little media attention. Tragically, all parties involved finally did what they were supposed to do and not many people heard about it.

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Taser Use By Chicago Police Officers Increases Sharply

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chicago Police officers have nearly quadrupled their use of Tasers since the department equipped every beat car with the electric-shock weapons earlie...

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You're Not Properly Licensed to Use the Malfunctioning, Eye-Scalding Gun

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police Taser, Taser, Tasers, Raoul Moat, Politics News

It's interesting that police are using tasers that haven't even been cleared properly by scientists. It should concern people who aren't gun-wielding psychopaths, and may one day be at the receiving end of 50,000 volts of state sanctioned torture.

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Taser Deaths On The Rise: Are They Cruel & Unusual? (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Hunter Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

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Are Tasers a good alternative to Police Departments' use of automatic weapons, or are they "cruel and unusual"? Across the United States, over 12,00...

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Peter McFarland Tased By Sheriff's Deputies In His Own Home

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California, Taser, Tasers, Police Taser, Man Tased in Own Home, California Man Tased, Los Angeles News

Peter McFarland of Marin County, Calif. is suing the county sheriff's office for tasing him in his own home while his wife pleaded with them to stop. ...

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WATCH: Baseball Fan TASERED At Game

Posted 05.25.2011

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During a minor league baseball game between the Daytona Cubs and Ft. Myers Twins on Saturday, a cop Tasered a fan behind the visitor's bullpen. The fa...

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Taser Victim Awarded $1 Settlement

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taser Lawsuit, Police Taser, Tasers, Los Angeles News

VENTURA, Calif. — A man who sued a California police department after he was shocked twice with a Taser has been awarded $1 in damages. A feder...

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MLB Players & Managers APPLAUD Tasering Fans

AP | JON KRAWCZYNSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

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The video of a 17-year-old fan being chased around the field and finally Tasered at a Philadelphia Phillies game drew laughs as it became an Internet ...

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Jailhouse SHOCK: Taser Use In Illinois Detention Centers

Chicago Reporter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cook County Sheriffs Office, Illinois Prisons, Cook County Jail, Kankakee County, Tasers, Prison, Tasers in Prison, Taser Use, Prisons, Illinois Inmates, Chicago News

In 2005, the sheriff of Kankakee County, Ill., discovered the alchemy necessary to turn the financial burden of operating jails into a financial boon....

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Phillies Fan TASERED: Teenager SHOCKED On Field (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) PHILADELPHIA — A police officer used a Taser gun to apprehend a fan who ran onto the field during a Phillies game Monday night, and the tea...

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The Taserification of America

Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miranda Rights, Underwear Bomber, John McCain, Tasers, Illegal Immigration, Guantanamo, Joe Arpaio, Times Square Bomb, Glenn Beck, John Yoo, Philadelphia, Arizona, Philadelphia Phillies, Torture, Politics News

Must we see every single act of wrongdoing, even minor ones, through the prism of 9/11? Is a fan running on a field in the same ballpark with killing nearly 3,000 people?

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