Media Decides Tasered Grandmother Was Asking for It
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.
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.
Posted 09.29.2009 | Comedy
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...
tmz.com | Posted Aug 28th 2009 7:27AM by TMZ Staff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment
Brody Jenner was in an epic fight outside of Guys and Dolls this morning, with Girls Gone Wild honcho Joe Francis. ...
AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home
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...
Posted 08.28.2009 | Comedy
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...
AP | Posted 08.28.2009 | Home
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...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.21.2009 | World
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...
Naomi Wolf | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
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.
AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
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...
AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics
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...
Terrance Heath | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics
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...
The Durango Herald | Ted Holteen | Posted 08.08.2008 | Home
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...
Minnesota Monitor | Andy Birkey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
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...
Media Matters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
During the September 18 edition of his Fox News television show, while discussing the recent incident involving University of Florida student Andrew M...
AP/Editor & Publisher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Video of police Tasering a persistent questioner of Sen. John Kerry became an Internet and TV sensation Tuesday, generating fierce debate about free s...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Mitt Romney jokes about the tasering of a University of Florida college student — but when it comes to Barry Manilow, he's all business!
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
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 ...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics