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Oakland Student Tasered during High School Protest
Source: Inside Bay Area

LaShun Frieson, 16, said two School Resource Officers were trying, unsuccessfully, to wrestle him to the ground and cuff him, prompting one of them to tase him multiple times.

TASER Abuse in the U.S.
Source: Amnesty USA

Since June 2001, more than 280 individuals in the United States have died after being struck by police TASERs. Amnesty International is concerned that TASERs are being used as tools of routine force--rather than as weapons of last resort.

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