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Conrad's arrest was captured on Officer Robert Pitts' body camera. The video shows Conrad standing waist-deep in the lake encouraging officers to shoot him while holding his 12-inch knife.
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The Denver Police Department has started using body cameras on their officers. The 6-month pilot project is part of a grant from TASER International in partnership with a study by Cambridge University, which will be the first of its kind for a major metropolitan city. Read More Here.
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Pierre (S.D.) PD police are being sued by the mother of an 8-year-old girl, claiming police used excessive force when they used a TASER on the girl during a 2013 incident at their home.
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A smart-phone video posted on YouTube shows Maui, Hawaii, mayoral candidate, Beau Hawkes, resisting an officer's attempts to arrest him after he allegedly fled from a traffic stop for driving without a license plate. Read More Here.
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A Maui police officer stunned mayoral candidate Beau Hawkes during a foot chase and arrest for resisting and failing to obey an officer.
Read More →A senior NYPD official said one change under discussion was the expanded use of Taser stun guns, which are available to a small number of New York officers but have been controversial there and elsewhere because of the risk they can pose to people with heart problems and other medical issues
Read More →The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to take a new look at a case involving repeated police use of a Taser stun gun on a handcuffed Louisiana man who later died.
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Dayton police released cruiser camera video Friday of a fight between police officers and a suspect who tried to escape their cruiser in April. One officer suffered a head injury during the fight with 20-year-old Davontae Hall. He was treated and released from the hospital after the incident. Hall was booked in to the Montgomery County jail on four felony charges, including having weapons under disability, carrying a concealed weapon, escape and obstructing official business.
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Suspect TASERed for allegedly assaulting a Dayton police officer while in the back of his patrol car.
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A January 2008 in-custody death could get a SCOTUS review. This would be the court’s first look at police use of stun guns after turning away appeals from both recipients of the high-voltage shocks and from police officers.
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