Deputy Dawg: "Unless things have changed in recent years, every officer that undergoes taser training submits to being tased. I have never heard of any one of those officers suffering any injury from doing so...."
And later: "...You’re making a claim that officers have been injured during taser training. ... Is it too much to ask you to provide a link to that report?" [LINK]
This was my reply:
Here ya go…
http://tinyurl.com/y9zce2u
I really hope that this helps.
2009 death cases
ReplyDeletehttp://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iiJlemWP-N-93Vfh4zWMs044DESQ
http://digitalmediajet.com/taser-kills-naked-man-ex-cop-outraged/
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/dies+after+Brooks+RCMP+Taser/1572693/story.html
2009, 14 year old boy dies after being tasered….there was more then one cop there to handle him
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/119489/cops_are_going_taser-crazy:_teens_injured_and_killed_by_supposed_%27nonlethal%27_weapons/
11 year old girl with a learning disability in Orange county gets tasered by officer
http://www.wftv.com/news/15722616/detail.html
Utah man that died 6/2009
http://blogs.sltrib.com/slcrawler/index.php?p=741&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31260623/
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top%20stories/story/Man-dies-after-police-Taser-incident/2YT678CdhUi_xXK7UQMT9w.cspx?rss=20
http://www.abc15.com/content/news/northernarizona/flagstaff/story/Flagstaff-man-dies-after-police-use-Taser-on-him/CFvgiFrp6k6fWzG377tZvQ.cspx
2008 death cases
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iiJlemWP-N-93Vfh4zWMs044DESQ
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/22/taser.death/index.html
http://www.infowars.com/taser-stun-gun-kills-california-man/
Amnesty International said on Tuesday in a recent report that 334 people died in the United States between 2001 and August 2008 after being zapped with Tasers, with medical examiners and coroners concluding that Taser shocks caused, or contributed to, at least 50 of the deaths.
http://www.missouriaccidentlawyerblog.com/2008/08/police_taser_kills_moberly_man.html
Taser loses case, pays 6 million in wrongful death:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/06/like-them-or-de/
Perfect video example of excessive force, the suspect was passive aggressive, and shocked the officer pulled his taser. Listen, the Officer asks him to step out of the vehicle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqbmasNeOmM
Officers injured by taser
http://www.janes.com/news/lawenforcement/pr/pr071011_1_n.shtml
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/01/taser_wins_verdict_appeal_on_shock_injury_to_officer/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20061106/ai_n16824030/
72 year old Grandma tasering you spoke of
http://www.examiner.com/x-12837-US-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m6d10-72-year-old-woman-tasered-by-police-officer
Canadian medical study says taser can cause brain injury
http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/03/16/taser-stun-guns-can-cause-brain-injury.html
http://www.bostoninjurylawyerblog.com/2009/02/state_trooper_files_massachuse.html
http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/read/10577
Studies that show the TASER being dangerous
http://www.ppao.gov.on.ca/pdfs/sys-tas-cbc1.pdf
Doctors condemn taser
http://www.infowars.com/doctors-condemn-threatening-taser-court-ruling/
Thanks Nick.
ReplyDeleteSome of those links look familiar, and I believe that many of them have been covered here. But others look new.
To be more accurate, Taser International has never (to my knowledge) actually paid $6M. For purely 'loop hole' reasons, the punitive damages were reportedly scratched on appeal.