Any time a New York City police shooting leads to the injury or death of a civilian, the NYPD must publicly release footage from officers’ body-worn cameras within a month, Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered Tuesday.
Read moreA New York City police officer who was caught on video Saturday pointing a stun gun at a man and violently taking him to the ground over an alleged social distancing violation has been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty pending an internal investigation.
Read moreA man who became paraplegic after being simultaneously tased and shot five times during a traffic stop lost his due process suit against the city of Birmingham. A federal court in Alabama ruled that he failed to cite evidence of a widespread practice of excessive force or sufficiently allege that the city failed to provide adequate training.
Read moreA family may pursue excessive force claims against a school security guard who confronted a 14-year-old student as he was attempting to leave school and tased him in the abdomen. The student was not acting violently but merely attempted to walk away from the guard.
Read moreAn appeals court in New Mexico ruled that a woman who pointed a taser at a police officer and grabbed his wrist while her son was being arrested was improperly convicted of battery upon a police officer. The woman was entitled to a “defense of another instruction” against the use of excessive force directed at her son.
Read moreA Massachusetts woman claims in a federal complaint that three Fall River police officers Taserted her partner to death after entering their home without a warrant to arrest a cousin of his who was staying with them.
Read moreIn a unanimous decision, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a state ban on carrying stun guns in public or in a vehicle violates the Second Amendment.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a widow’s claim over the death of her husband, a nonviolent retired Navy medical officer, after a sheriff’s officer in Pinellas County, Florida, stunned him five times with a Taser.
Read moreExtinguishing claims by a couple whose deaf son was tased at a school, the Second Circuit ruled Friday that the police officer who deployed the weapon is entitled to immunity.
Read moreA federal class action claims Taser International nka Axon Enterprise built and sold Tasers with defective safety mechanisms, causing unintentional discharges.
Read moreThe Milwaukee Police Department released a video Wednesday afternoon showing police arresting and using a stun gun on NBA player Sterling Brown, who said he will sue over the incident.
Read moreAn Oklahoma prosecutor cleared a cop Thursday of wrongdoing in the Taser shooting of an apparently suicidal man doused in gasoline who caught fire and died.
Read moreA high-functioning autistic high school student who had been trained to leave class and walk around when he was upset, with permission from the school, was Tasered in school by a Pierce County sheriff’s officer as he did so, his parents claim in Federal Court.
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A federal judge ruled that two Connecticut police officers must go to trial on a mother’s claims they used excessive force by deploying a stun gun on her teenage son until he foamed at the mouth for taking a beef patty from the high school cafeteria without paying.
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Echoing a recent claims out of Maryland, the attorney general of Massachusetts faces a federal complaint over the ban on selling or possessing Tasers and other stun guns, weapons that many citizens prefer to carry to avoid using lethal force in self-defense.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit indicated Wednesday that though it may grant qualified immunity to four San Diego Border Patrol agents who Tasered and accidentally killed a motorist when his car caught fire, it could hold the federal government accountable for his death.
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