Tasers

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Tasers Safer Than Batons Or Fists When Subduing Suspects, Study Shows

NewScientist | Jim Giles | Posted 11.17.2009 | Technology

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Using a Taser to subdue a violent suspect is safer than police batons and fists. That is the surprising conclusion of a study of incidents in which US...

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Mayor Mike and the Imam

Len Levitt | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York

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Perhaps we should be relieved the feds are trying Khalid Sheikh Mohamed. If left to the locals, we might have a lapse like City Hall's invitation to a Brooklyn imam linked to the first World Trade Center attack.

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Media Decides Tasered Grandmother Was Asking for It

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Police Brutality, Taser, Tasers, Kathryn Winkfein, Police, Police Brutality Video, Politics News

The media is portraying Winkfein as an irrational hag, who somehow deserved to be shocked with 50,000 volts of electricity after getting mouthy with a police officer.

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Colbert Celebrates The Tasing Of Soccer Mom, Man On Tractor (VIDEO)

Posted 09.29.2009 | Comedy

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Stephen Colbert celebrated tasers last night in a segment he calls "current events." He explored the recent tasing of a soccer mom in front of her chi...

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Joe Francis And Brody Jenner in Bar Fight, Tasered

tmz.com | Posted Aug 28th 2009 7:27AM by TMZ Staff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

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Brody Jenner was in an epic fight outside of Guys and Dolls this morning, with Girls Gone Wild honcho Joe Francis. ...

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Man dies after being Tasered at LA subway station

AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home

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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says a man has died after a deputy shocked him three times with an electric stun gun a...

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Colbert Gets Tased By His Own Conscience (VIDEO)

Posted 08.28.2009 | Comedy

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As we know by now Colbert enjoys law enforcement in all forms but especially those situations that involve violence. When an elderly lady was tased re...

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Antonio Love: Ala. Police Use Taser On Deaf And Disabled Man

AP | Posted 08.28.2009 | Home

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MOBILE, Ala. — Officers who used pepper spray and a Taser to remove a man from a store bathroom found out only later he was deaf and mentally di...

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Tasered Man Bursts Into Flames In Australia

Huffington Post | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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When police taser-gunned a man in an aboriginal community in Western Australia who was charging them with a can of gasoline and a lighter, he suddenly...

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The Battle Plan III: Deployment and Its Dangers

Naomi Wolf | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Protests, George Bush, Bush Brigade, Civil Disobedience, Tasers, RNC Arrests, Political Protests, Politics News

On October 1, President Bush deployed a brigade -- which means three to four thousand warriors -- somewhere in America. Troops on our streets make us something less than a democracy.

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Nude Taser Officer Kills Himself

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nude Man Tasered, Police Brutality, New York City, Local Politics, Tasers, Politics News

NEW YORK — A police lieutenant committed suicide Thursday, days after he ordered another officer to fire a stun gun at a naked, distraught man w...

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Nude Man Tasered, Causing Him To Fall To His Death

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

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NEW YORK — An officer appears to have violated police department guidelines when he used a Taser stun gun on a naked, distraught man teetering o...

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Held Suspect

Terrance Heath | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Louisiana, Tasers, Crime, Police, Police Brutality, Racism, Race, Baron Pikes, Jena 6, Civil Rights, Racial Profiling, Politics News

I don't remember how old I was the first time it happened. I couldn't have been more than ten years old. We were in Philadelphia -- my mother, my youn...

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Newlyweds Tasered At Reception, Spend Wedding Night In Jail

The Durango Herald | Ted Holteen | Posted 08.08.2008 | Home

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The Michigan wedding of Durango newlyweds Andy and Ania Somora came to an abrupt end last weekend after the bride and groom were tasered by local poli...

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Minnesota Police Stock Up On Tasers Before Republican National Convention

Minnesota Monitor | Andy Birkey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The St. Paul Police Department is requesting 230 Tasers to outfit the all of the department's officers with the electroshock weapon, Fox 9 News report...

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O'Reilly: Tasered Student "Biggest Wimp In The United States Of America"

Media Matters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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During the September 18 edition of his Fox News television show, while discussing the recent incident involving University of Florida student Andrew M...

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Student Tasered At Kerry Event Was, Naturally, A Journalist

AP/Editor & Publisher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Video of police Tasering a persistent questioner of Sen. John Kerry became an Internet and TV sensation Tuesday, generating fierce debate about free s...

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Mitt Romney Likes A Good Tasering

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Mitt Romney jokes about the tasering of a University of Florida college student — but when it comes to Barry Manilow, he's all business!

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Police Taser Florida Student After He Asks John Kerry Why No One Has Tried To Impeach Bush

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Freedom of Speech, University of Florida, John Kerry, Excessive Force, Tasers, Impeach, Home News

A university student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was Tasered by campus police and arrested after loudly and repeatedly trying to ...

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