Study: Houston police used Tasers more on blacks

Houston police officers have used Tasers more on black suspects than any other group of individuals, according to a city study released Monday.

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Canada's police force agrees to restrict Taser use

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it will restrict Taser use after the head of its public watchdog said the force should only use the weapons in situations where suspects are combative or could cause harm.

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Colo. prosecutors drop charges in Taser shootout

Prosecutors have dropped charges against a Colorado restaurant owner after he and a security company supervisor shot each other with Tasers in a dispute over parking.

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NYC police adding stun guns to officers' belts

The NYPD is expanding its use of the Taser stun gun, a common tool in the law enforcement arsenal that's seen limited use in the nation's largest police force.

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Colorado men exchange Taser shots over parked van

It wasn't exactly pistols at 30 paces, but police say a security company supervisor and a restaurateur shot each other with Tasers in a "bonehead" confrontation over parking.

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Canadian Police to Curb Taser Use

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Friday that it will restrict its use of Taser stun guns in response to a watchdog agency report that officers were firing them too often.

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Canada Police Urged to Curb Taser Use

Canada's national police force should limit their use of Taser stun guns to cases in which a suspect poses a major threat, a Canadian watchdog said Wednesday in the wake of three recent deaths of people who had been shocked by the hand-held weapon.

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I am very much against tasering, but I honestly believe that any mother who tells a policeman to taser her child should be tasered first, just so she knows what she's asking them to do.

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10 yr old Girl Tasered for not Going to Bed & Being Unruly

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The old rule said police could tase anyone who displayed verbal non-compliance. For example, if an officer told you to put your hands up and you refused, you could have been tased. Now, the officer must percieve physical or verbal aggression before the weapon is used.

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Suspects Hands on Police Car. Tasered Anyway. Rolando Ruiz is tasered by a Minneapolis police officer after being arrested for throwing a brick at a police car.

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Tasered while Complying Suspect had his hands on the police car. Suspect was offering no resistance. He was tasered to the ground.

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On Monday, Rolando Ruiz's lawyer released dashcam video of an April 30 incident in which Ruiz can be seen with his hands on the hood of a car when a police officer approaches him and Tases him in the neck.

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You see, in an effort "to minimize controversy, increase effectiveness and provide enhanced risk management" (i.e.

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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona-based Taser International is advising police agencies across the nation not to shoot its stun guns at a suspect's chest, saying it could post an extremely low risk of an "adverse cardiac event."

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Two articles: Video footage of police beating unarmed Vietnamese student likened to Rodney King attack

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Oh really, now—how long have I been blogging about this "electrical shock device" and the deaths, maimings and abuse heaped upon the guilty and the innocent, the elderly, the mentally disabled, the bedridden and wheelchair bound, as well as humans minding their own busin …

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Police forces across Canada, including the RCMP, OPP, are immediately changing their Taser use policy after the manufacturer issued a directive that officers should not aim the weapon at a suspect's chest.

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Over the past few years, tasers have been used for all sorts of....interesting events. See for yourself, and see what you think!

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CHEYENNE, WY (September 22) – Two police officers who chased and Tasered a 76-year-old man driving a tractor in a Wyoming town parade have been fired.Bud Grose, who was shocked five times by Officer Michael Kavenius, welcomed the decision announced Tuesday by the Glenrock Polic …

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The Merced Police Department's Internal Affairs Division is investigating a complaint alleging that an officer twice used a Taser against an unarmed man with no legs in a wheelchair.

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CINCINNATI , Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A Cincinnati police officer is being investigated for using a Taser on the passenger in a car stopped after a collision, police said Monday.

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Police in Alice Springs fired a taser gun at a man who was waving a machete and screaming, "I want to chop people up" on a suburban street last night.

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Carter, a 67-year-old black man from Hartford, Conn., came to town two years ago to track down his runaway son. The teen had hooked up with some bad influences on the city's south side, and Carter caught up with him in the rough-and-tumble Allied Drive neighborhood.

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Glenrock Police Chief Tom Sweet said two officers "probably didn't do things the best way" when they used a Taser on a 76-year-old man driving an antique tractor in a parade.

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Police in Alberta will be restricted to using Tasers only when there is a "real likelihood of injury" to an officer, a person being arrested or a bystander, say new regulations released Friday by the province's solicitor general.

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Prince William County Police responded to a noise complaint at a child's baptism party. By the time they left, a grandfather and a pregnant woman had been Tasered.

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The man investigating the use of Tasers by police in B.C. has concluded that stun guns can be deadly and much tougher rules must be adopted if they are to remain an option for police.

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The government of British Columbia will restrict the use of stun guns by police, following the release of a report by the Braidwood Inquiry...it is effective immediately.

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14-year-old Tucumcari girl recovering – Authorities say a 14-year-old Tucumcari girl girl is recovering at an Albuquerque hospital after being shot in the head with a Taser dart by the Tucumcari police chief.

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A Waffle House employee is suing the Gwinnett County Police Department over what he says was an unprovoked encounter with an officer who stunned him with a Taser.

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MOBERLY, Mo.- This municipality agreed Monday to an indefinite moratorium on the use of stun guns and will pay $2.4 million to survivors of a man who died after police shocked him. Note: See the full settlement details in .pdf format.

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