Sunday, September 30, 2012
Liverpool, UK - 22-year-old man hit with taser, suffers cardiac arrest
Hey Kroll, you've been pretty quiet lately.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Macadam Mason death caused by taser
An electrical discharge from a Vermont state trooper’s Taser weapon caused the death of a Thetford man three months ago outside his home, the New Hampshire Medical Examiner’s Office advised Vermont State Police Friday. Macadam Mason, 39, suffered “sudden cardiac death due to conducted electrical weapon discharge,” Vermont State Police reported late Friday afternoon in a statement relaying the conclusions from Mason’s autopsy in New Hampshire. Mason died June 20 outside his Thetford home after Senior Trooper David Shaffer fired his Taser at Mason’s chest. ...[LINK]
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Forbes: "Taser remains 'an execution story'."
... J.P. Morgan analyst Paul Coster... ...writes in a research note that Taser remains “an execution story,” ...Yes. Sometimes that's exactly true.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Macadam Mason taser-death autopsy report overdue
WHO'S HOLDING UP AUTOPSY OF VERMONT MAN'S TASER DEATH IN JUNE? [LINK]
None of the officials involved in Vermont's first taser death will explain why it's almost three months since a Vermont State trooper tasered Macadam Mason, a 39-year-old epileptic artist who died almost immediately, and there's still no completed autopsy report. ...
Monday, September 10, 2012
How Taser International meddles in taser-death medical inquiries
Taser writes investigators, medical examiner, in death of Thetford man [LINK]
The day following Macadam Mason’s death, Vermont State Police held a news conference and said, in part, that the Thetford man died after being shot in the chest by a Trooper’s Taser. Less than four hours after the conference, a Taser International spokesman e-mailed State Police suggestions on how to conduct its investigation and asked the agency to forward information to the medical examiners conducting an autopsy on Mason’s body. “The attending medical examiners should urgently know that the University of Miami [a.k.a. Excited-Delirium-R-Us] Brain Endowment Bank is available with cutting edge research center that can determine drug abuse and look for excited delirium markers,” Taser International spokesman Steve Tuttle wrote in the e-mail. ...
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