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The Philadelphia Police Department has agreed to buy 1,000 Tasers to expand the use of less-than-lethal weapons by officers often called upon to deal with unruly, mentally ill people.
Read More →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 65-year-old man with apparent mental problems is hospitalized and an Oakland County Sheriff's deputy was injured in an incident Sunday in which the man was TASERed.
Read More →Campus police officers at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) will be equipped with TASERs in January.
Read More →Port of Portland (Ore.) Police TASERed and arrested an intoxicated man at Oregon National Airport, after airline personnel told him he could not board the plane. Read the full story here.
Read More →A Parkland man who was Tasered on Tuesday during a scuffle with Broward sheriff's deputies in front of the Sawgrass Infiniti car dealership in Tamarac has died in the hospital, according to authorities.
Read More →Green was stunned initially several times after he wouldn’t give up his hands to be cuffed and was shocked twice again after he was cuffed because he refused to spit out crack cocaine in his mouth, the incident report said.
Read More →Unbeknownst to some family and friends, the younger Russ had failed to keep a promise of turning himself in to sheriff’s deputies. So the sheriff’s office planned to arrest him discreetly at the 2 p.m. funeral – a move that backfired in the emotionally charged environment. Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Ed McMahon chalked it up to bad timing.
Read More →A New Mexico officer TASERed a 10-year-old-boy after he refused to wash his patrol car at a school career fair, claims a lawsuit from the boy's legal guardian.
Read More →Several Long Beach (Calif.) Police officers now face an internal investigation for using batons and a TASER on a man on his back near a city intersection.
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