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TASER International, Inc. has donated $300,000 to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Foundation's fallen officer fund, the company announced Sunday.
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Dejuan Anderson, 20, entered Fort Myers (Fla.) Police headquarters at 7:20 a.m. and asked for an officer by name. Anderson began swinging his edged weapon until an officer TASERed him.
Read More →Officers must only deploy the TASER in self-defense of in defense of someone else, Chief James Craig announced. And once officers decide to use their TASER, they must try to avoid a frontal hit.
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A 21-year-old man was TASERed by a Kootenai County, Idaho, court bailiff on Monday, after he refused repeated commands to stop filming near a courtroom. Robert Peterson entered the courthouse for a hearing on a citation he received for riding his bicycle at night without a light.
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A McAlestar (Okla.) Police officer remains on active duty but can no longer use his TASER, after he used the less-lethal weapon on an intoxicated, handcuffed woman who spit on him.
Read More →A Rhode Island trooper arrested a subject who used the officer's TASER on her during a physical confrontation after a foot pursuit on Thursday.
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An accused jaywalker who refused to provide identification to two Casselberry (Fla.) Police officers was TASERed three times when he began resisting and shouting that officers had assaulted him.
Read More →A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against TASER that claimed the company was legally required to inform its customers that multiple TASER shots could result in death.
Read More →Gwinnett County (Ga.) Police officers subdued a 21-year-old man who had ingested "bath salts" after hitting him with four TASER shots. Karl Laventure, 21, of Atlanta was arrested after threatening to eat customers at a golf range and screaming about rapper Tupac Shakur and religion.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider the cases of two women who claimed officers violated their civil rights when they used TASERs on them. The justices rejected the two appeals from the Ninth Circuit Court at a May 24 conference.
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