http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Missouri_Police_taser_injured_boy_19_0726.html

Not death, but they certainly tried their best.

7/31/2008 2:08:01 PM

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"When the police arrived, the young man was lying on the shoulder of the highway directly underneath the 30 foot high overpass with a broken back and foot. Doctors believe 16-year-old Mace Hutchinson broke his back and heel after falling, as his injuries are consistent with such a fall. The boy's family does not understand why police would have tasered the the teen 19 times after he was so seriously injured. "

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"Ozark police say that while there remains unanswered questions in the case, the reason for the use of the Taser is not one of them."

Well, I'm glad they can clear that up for us. Even if they can't articulate a reason, the fact that they think they have one is enough for me.

Seriously though, I fucking hate cops. This sort of shit makes me sick.

This is almost as bad as the drowning man they fished out of San Diego Bay the other day just to shoot.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-harbor21-2008jul21,0,1399426.story

7/31/2008 10:01:53 PM

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"NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A former police officer accused of repeatedly jolting a handcuffed man with a Taser before he died was indicted on a manslaughter charge Wednesday by a grand jury in central Louisiana. The Winn Parish grand jury also indicted former Winnfield police officer Scott Nugent on a charge of malfeasance in office stemming from the Jan. 17 death of Baron Pikes, 21. Pikes was shocked nine times with a 50,000-volt Taser as he was arrested on a drug possession warrant in January, authorities said. Winn Parish District Attorney Chris Nevils said Nugent broke the law when he "unnecessarily" used the Taser on Pikes multiple times and failed to get him medical attention "when it was apparent he needed it." ... Anger over Pikes' death has threatened to inflame racial tensions in Winnfield, where the population of roughly 5,800 is evenly divided between black and white residents. Pikes was black; Nugent is white. "

http://tinyurl.com/5gq5dl

8/14/2008 12:36:55 PM

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"Man falls to death after police stun gun shock 8 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) — A naked, distraught man fell to his death after a police officer shocked him with a Taser stun gun as he stood on a building ledge, authorities said. The man, Iman Morales, 35, was pronounced dead at a hospital after his nearly 10-foot fall Wednesday. Police said he suffered serious head trauma when he hit the sidewalk. The death of the man, who witnesses and neighbors said had become distraught and had threatened to kill himself earlier in the day, brought renewed focus to the use of Tasers by the police. It also raised questions over why Morales was shocked with the stun gun when there was no inflatable bag placed on the sidewalk to catch him if he fell. "They didn't try to brace his fall. They did nothing. I've seen a lot of things in my time. But what they did was wrong," said neighbor Kirk Giddens, 39, in Thursday editions of the Daily News. In a video posted on the Web site of the New York Post, Morales can be seen clambering along a building's fire escape until he reaches a ledge and begins swinging a large fluorescent light bulb at officers below. One of the officers raises a Taser at Morales, who freezes and topples over headfirst. Police spokesman Paul J. Browne told The New York Times that Morales' death was under investigation. He said that it was unclear whether an inflatable bag had been requested or whether it had not yet arrived at the scene. Officers are allowed to use Tasers if they believe psychologically distressed people are a danger to themselves or to others. Thousands of city police sergeants began carrying Tasers on their belts this year. The pistol-shaped weapons fire barbs up to 35 feet and deliver 50,000-volt shocks to immobilize people."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jAgzHx0ForJcOel-ME_for5rGiRQD93DP19O0

[Edited on September 25, 2008 at 5:50 PM. Reason : ]

9/25/2008 5:46:44 PM

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" NEW YORK (AP) -- The man was naked, teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at police with an 8-foot-long fluorescent light bulb as a crowd gathered below. Lt. Michael Pigott responded by ordering an officer to fire a stun gun at the man, who froze and plunged headfirst to his death in a scene captured on amateur video and replayed frequently on the Internet. The officer was remorseful and distraught. He apologized and sought the family's forgiveness. Then he went to his unit's headquarters Thursday morning and fatally shot himself, just hours before the family laid the victim to rest. "The lieutenant was deeply distraught and extremely remorseful over the death of Iman Morales in Brooklyn last week," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "Sadly, his death just compounds the tragedy of the loss of Mr. Morales." The suicide marks another tragic turn in a case that has raised questions about the use of Tasers by the nation's largest police force. Thousands of police sergeants began carrying Tasers on their belts this year after the NYPD expanded use of the weapons, a trend that has been playing out in police departments across the country in recent years. The pistol-shaped weapons fire barbs up to 35 feet and deliver powerful shocks to immobilize people. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has acknowledged that the weapon is controversial, and some organizations are strongly opposed to police use of Tasers -- fearful that the guns can be abused without clear guidelines. Police said the use of the stun gun in the death of Morales appeared to violate department guidelines, which explicitly bar their use "in situations where the subject may fall from an elevated surface." Marchesona also was reassigned to desk duty but was not stripped of his gun and badge. Pigott learned firsthand the dangers of Tasers after he was called to a Brooklyn apartment building on the night of September 24. Witnesses and neighbors said Morales grew increasingly agitated and threatened to kill himself, leading his mother to call 911. When police arrived, Morales fled naked out the window of his third-floor apartment to the fire escape. He tried to get into an apartment on the floor above, and then climbed down until he reached a ledge over a shuttered storefront, where he started jabbing at officers with the light bulb. Pigott had to make a decision about what to do. He ordered Officer Nicholas Marchesona to fire the Taser. The 5,000-volt shock immobilized the 35-year-old Morales, who then toppled from his perch. He plunged 10 feet to the ground and died. Officers had radioed for an inflatable bag as the incident unfolded, but it had not yet arrived when Morales fell. Authorities believe the fall killed Morales, but an autopsy was inconclusive. After the episode, Kelly ordered refresher training for the NYPD's emergency services unit on how to deal with the mentally ill and appointed a new commander of the unit. Pigott was stripped of his gun and badge and assigned to a job with the department's motor vehicle fleet -- a huge demotion for a 21-year veteran who was assigned to such an elite team. The Brooklyn district attorney's office and the police department investigated. Pigott apologized for what happened, telling the Long Island newspaper Newsday that he was "truly sorry." Sometime before 6 a.m. Thursday, the lieutenant went to the locker room at his unit's headquarters by himself and found a weapon that was not his. The married father of two sons and a daughter shot himself in the head on his 46th birthday. About four hours later, the Morales family gathered at a church in Manhattan for their relative's funeral. "This is horrible," said Morales' aunt, Ann DeJesus Negron. "I mean, for me personally, I know it's horrible because I would have never wished this on anyone, and we never wanted, of course, this for Iman, and we would never wanted this to happen to the officer at all, or anybody at all." The episode also cast the spotlight on the NYPD's emergency services unit, a team of officers who deal with dozens of hostile scenarios every day, such as hostage situations, suicidal suspects, building collapses and hazardous materials threats. "These guys are the best of the best, they really are," said Eugene O'Donnell, a professor of police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "When people need help, they call the police, and when police need help, the call the ESU." O'Donnell said that even a mistake caught on camera shouldn't take away from what the unit and the officers there do on a daily basis. "You have a guy who made a mistake where there's no allegation of malice or ill will," he said. "And what happened after he made a mistake? He was named in the paper, shamed in the paper, suspended, and there was a strong story line that he could be criminal suspect." NYPD officers are allowed to use Tasers if they believe emotionally disturbed people are a danger to themselves or to others. The department uses stun guns about 300 times on average. So far this year, stun guns have been used 180 times. The department has used Tasers since 1984, but policy previously called for sergeants to store the stun guns in their trunks while patrolling. "It is worth remembering that our police officers are not super men, but rather flesh-and-blood human beings who deal with life-and-death situations that most of us cannot even imagine on a daily basis," said Thomas Sullivan of Lieutenants Benevolent Association. "They deserve a kind thought and the benefit of the doubt for all the good that they try to do, especially when things do not work out exactly as we would have hoped for." Pigott was a licensed pilot and a motor boat operator. He had worked as a lieutenant in ESU since 2002, and previously served as a lieutenant in a Brooklyn precinct and as a sergeant in precincts that covered Queens neighborhoods."

10/3/2008 2:02:51 AM

i guess they should have just shot him with a pistol. either that, or beat him senseless with a billy-club

but yeah, tasing a guy on a ledge doesn't seem like the best idea. I don't need training to tell me that.

10/6/2008 10:04:42 PM

not a death, but WTF?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/12/09/dnt.kwtv.diabetic.tased.kwtv

12/10/2008 12:14:31 AM

Not sure what you see wrong with that. Sure it's a crappy situation, but if you've ever dealt with someone who's blood sugar has dropped like that, they can and do get quite nasty and combative, and if they're driving when it happens, they do tend to drive and respond as if heavily intoxicated.

12/10/2008 9:46:55 AM

He is correct, and the standard police action is legally judged by is they have to be reasonable not right.....ie you shoot a person with a toy gun, technically you were wrong but it was not unreasonable.

12/10/2008 2:45:23 PM

bump by request

11/2/2009 11:49:25 PM

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"Taser manufacturer: Don't aim at chest The company that makes Tasers has asked law enforcement officers across the country to avoid hitting people in the chest, and several North Carolina agencies said they plan to heed the warning. A bulletin from TASER International, based in Arizona, asks officers to avoid the face, neck and chest and instead aim for the stomach or below. Company officials said they are concerned that attorneys will file an “excessive use of force claim against the law enforcement agency and officer and try to allege that the Taser played a role in the (death),” especially when someone goes into cardiac arrest. “By simply lowering the preferred target zone by a few inches to lower center mass, the goal achieving Neuro Muscular Incapacitation can be achieved more effectively while also improving risk management,” the memo states. “The recommendations they're giving us today seem reasonable,” Raleigh Police Chief Harry Dolan said. Leaders of local agencies, like Raleigh police and the North Carolina Highway Patrol, said they will incorporate the new policy in their training. However, officers’ safety comes first and hitting the chest is allowed if necessary, leaders said. “We've adjusted our training, we're in the process of doing that now, and the next classes that come through our training, we'll teach them to use the preferred areas,” state Highway Patrol spokesman Capt. Everett Clendenin said. Highway patrol leaders said they have 600 Tasers. They will alert troopers about the new guideline by e-mail and in future training sessions."

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/6332296/

[Edited on November 3, 2009 at 8:07 AM. Reason : ]

11/3/2009 8:06:45 AM

that was a bolded-headline and a rolly eyes away from being a hooksaw post

11/3/2009 6:49:34 PM

11/6/2009 5:06:52 PM

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"Other recent stun-gun deaths in North Carolina • July 2012: Robeson County deputies received a call about a man assaulting people at a store in Parkton. When officers arrived, they said the man attacked them and tried to steal a patrol car. Deputies say the man was shot once with the stun gun but that he kept attacking officers, so he was shot a second time. The man kept fighting with deputies for a short time, then collapsed. • August 2011: Fayetteville police received a call about a man acting strangely and attempting to jump into the path of cars on the road. Three officers struggled with him and used a Taser just before the man collapsed and died. • July 2008: A man who had been jailed after a shoplifting arrest got into an altercation in a hallway when at least one police officer and possibly a jailer used a Taser on him. He later died at a hospital. An autopsy found that the man had traces of cocaine in urine samples taken shortly before his death. • April 2008: Four Greensboro officers used a Taser three times on a man who was pulled over for speeding after the man resisted the officers. They called an ambulance after the man began bleeding from the mouth. The man appeared to have a seizure and go into cardiac arrest in the ambulance and died at a hospital five days later. An autopsy report concluded the man died from complications of cocaine toxicity. • March 2008: A 17-year-old shocked with a Taser by police after an altercation at a Charlotte grocery store died from cardiac arrest, according to an autopsy. Police confronted the teen during an argument with the manager of the store and say he threw something at the manager, ignored commands and approached the officer, who used a Taser. The boy’s heart was pumping so fast and chaotically from the Taser shot and the stress of the confrontation that it stopped pumping blood properly. The autopsy found no relevant pre-existing conditions. • January 2007: Gaston County police officers received calls about a driver who hit three vehicles and a house and arrived to find a man nude and running down the street. Police said the man was uncooperative and resisted arrest, and two of the officers used Tasers on him. The man became unconscious and died. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/04/10/2816738/raleigh-police-say-man-died-after.html#storylink=cpy"

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"RALEIGH — Police say a man died after he became “physically aggressive” with officers early Wednesday and they used a Taser device to subdue him. Police identified the man as Thomas Jeffery Sadler, 45. They say officers responded to a call about a naked man shouting obscenities near the intersection of Wiggs and Mial streets in the Five Points neighborhood about 3:45 a.m. After officers used the Taser, Sadler collapsed and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Police have not released information about how officers used the Taser, a type of stun gun. The Raleigh Police Department has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into Sadler’s death. A man who called police said Sadler lived in a rental house on Mial Street and that he was walking around the Emmanuel Baptist Church parking lot yelling, according to a recording of the 911 call released Wednesday afternoon. Sue Stevick also called 911. Stevick, who lives two doors down from Sadler, was awakened by a woman’s piercing scream and looked out to see Sadler, whom she described as “a big fella” who stood about 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed about 300 pounds. “He was dropping the ‘F’ bomb a lot and he kept saying, ‘I told her. I told her,’?” Stevick said Wednesday. “He was flailing around in the parking lot, cursing and buck-naked with nothing on.” Stevick said Sadler had moved into the neighborhood with the woman and a teenage boy about two years ago. Although Stevick and Sadler were never formally introduced, the two would wave to one another when she saw him jogging through the neighborhood. “I would see them when I was out walking my dog,” Stevick said. “They seemed to keep to themselves.” Sadler, a native of Powhatan, Va., was on probation after he was convicted in 2010 of a felony probation violation. He had been convicted of felony speeding to elude arrest in 2007 in Gaston County and was also convicted that year in Powhatan, Va., of felony possession of a weapon of mass destruction, according to state records. Sadler’s family could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Stevick did not witness the confrontation with police and still wasn’t sure what had happened to Sadler until she hopped into her pickup truck Wednesday morning to head downtown where she volunteers at a church. As she drove away, she looked in the rear-view mirror and saw her neighbor lying in the middle of the street, covered by a white sheet. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/04/10/2816738/raleigh-police-say-man-died-after.html#storylink=cpy"

4/10/2013 10:38:31 PM

This one takes the cake, fat cop too lazy to run down a handcuffed female that probably weighs like 80 lbs. Tazes her in the back, she hits her head on the ground hard since she is cuffed and is now brain dead.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2104228/Pictured-The-moment-handcuffed-suspect-20-left-brain-dead-Tasered-trying-escape-police.html

4/10/2013 10:45:27 PM

Tasers have proven again and again that they are convenient for the police, but dangerous to people. A single death or brain dead state is unacceptable by police merely trying to apprehend a suspect. If that fat shithead redneck cretin had bothered to chase her, she would be likely be perfectly healthy today.

4/11/2013 12:14:19 AM

tasers are still safer than a bullet

4/11/2013 7:36:04 AM

^
you're right, but they often use them in situations where deadly force is not warranted

4/11/2013 8:19:16 AM

But if deadly force is warranted, why waste time with a taser?

4/12/2013 6:42:00 PM