David Lassi is a diabetic. He was having a seizure. His roommate calls 911. The paramedics come. He flails around in the seizure. The police taser him 11 times. He was never charged with a crime.
The cities attorney says the cops are immune to prosection.
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Now the new generation of Tasers is raising concerns: The X3 handgun-style Taser, is capable of subduing three suspects at once.
The newest models deliver the current to the body much more efficiently and consistently.
January. 1st 2011
City lawyers insist it was perfectly “reasonable” for an NYPD lieutenant to order a cop to Taser an emotionally disturbed man on a building ledge – leading to his death.
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The NYPD has acknowledged cops failed to devise a plan to break Morales’ 10-foot fall.
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A man who was shocked with a stun gun and arrested in Walden Galleria last week when he was questioned as a possible shoplifting suspect says that he was a victim of excessive force by Cheektowaga police.
And a bystander who said she saw the arrest backs up his claim.
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The lawsuit stems from a September 2009 incident when the boy, then 15, tried to intervene in a fight between two girls and was Tasered by a Syracuse police officer called to the scene.
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Sign the letter to the Commanding Officer of Bradley Manning’s brig urging for Bradley’s unnecessary POI order to be lifted
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San Bernardino County prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a San Bernardino police sergeant who was accused of illegally detaining suspects.
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The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals may set guidelines for when police officers can use their electronic Taser stun guns in Hawaii and other western states, based on an appeal of a decision by a three-judge panel of the court.
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Waveland police officers started carrying Tasers in 2006 and by late 2008 the Sun Herald was editorially asking: “Why do Waveland police use Tasers more freely than Marines in Iraq?” That question was never answered.
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A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit Tuesday that challenged the Obama administration’s placement of a Yemeni cleric, who is also a U.S. citizen, on a kill-or-capture list of terrorists linked to al-Qaeda.
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