"Taser Torture" are my words.
LA Times - The county made the payment in early March to Matthew Fleuret, who alleged he was Tasered while handcuffed and slammed to the floor by sheriff's deputies. The event was captured on video. ...The lawsuit stemmed from the March 2006 arrest of Matthew Fleuret on suspicion of obstructing a deputy after getting into a bar fight on St. Patrick's Day. He was never prosecuted. ... The videos, which became public after Fleuret filed a $47.5M lawsuit alleging excessive force, show him being placed in a holding cell at Orange County Jail and held on the floor by at least five deputies, one of whom pulls Fleuret's arms back while others repeatedly shock him with the Taser over a period of about 13 minutes. ... Fleuret's attorney said his client was shocked 11 times. ... [LINK]
Being electro-shocked eleven times meets any reasonable definition of the word "torture".
...A grand jury report in 2008 called the deaths of two inmates after being Tasered a "cause of alarm" and reported that jail staff used Tasers on 437 inmates from 2004 to 2007. ...
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