“The effects that stun guns cause to your body are literally shocking”

*Editor’s note: the statements from 0:13 to 0:20 are incorrect. The shock from a stun gun is more similar to that of an electric fence. We apologize and regret the error.*”

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Police have killed over a thousand people using Tasers. A use-of-force expert says the weapon should be banned.

The less-than-lethal weapon has resulted in over a thousand deaths of people between 2000 and 2018, a Reuters investigation found.

Per the above article: “Police have killed over a thousand people using Tasers. A use-of-force expert says the weapon should be banned”

“Hours after being tased, the 31-year-old English teacher and cousin of Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors went into cardiac arrest and died at the hospital.

“The police are supposed to be here to protect and serve the people, and yet they abuse their authority and have a lack of respect for human life,” Dominique Anderson, the younger sister of Anderson, said in a news conference following the release of body camera footage of her brother’s death.

he deaths disproportionately affect Black people, Reuters found. Black people accounted for 32% of deaths, despite only making 14% of the US population, while white people made up 29% of deaths, despite making up 60% of the population.

“The Taser directly caused the death of Mr. Anderson, I believe,” Kalfani Turè, an assistant professor at Mount Saint Mary’s University, told Insider.

Turè, a former police officer who now researches use-of-force incidents, explained that many police departments have no rules limiting how stun guns are used because of the false notion that Tasers are non-lethal — despite overwhelming evidence that they can kill people. Turè — who is against the current use of Tasers — also pointed out that their use could potentially set people on fire.

Anderson’s family filed a $50-million wrongful-death claim against the city of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported, which alleged the use of the stun gun resulted in injuries that led to Anderson’s death”.

Police Torture Teen With Taser

Jordan Norris was restrained and deputies repeatedly used a taser on him. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down

Colorado Cops Strap Woman To Chair, Torture Her With Taser Over Refusing To Sign Ticket!

A Boulder County woman got an unfortunate lesson in police brutality recently and the video of it looks like something out of 1930s Germany. After attempting to exercise her rights not to incriminate herself, she found out the hard way police will not only taser you when you’re in handcuffs, but they’ll taser you when you’re completely restrained.

Lauren Gotthelf filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against several officers and the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office.

Virginia Cop Tasers Man Having Medical Emergency May 23, 2015

Florida teen dies from police taser

CNN’s Brooke Baldwin talks with Mike Brooks and Nick Valencia about a FL teen that was killed after the police tased him

Man dies after being tased by Jeffersontown police officer

Christopher Roberts died one day after he was tased by a police officer at a Jeffersontown motel.

Unarmed black man dies after being repeatedly tasered by police in Virginia

Distressing CCTV footage shows Virginia police officers repeatedly tasing an unarmed black man after he was arrested following a noise complaint at a hotel, he later died. Report by Jennifer Cordingley.

Body camera footage shows Florida man being tasered 15 times before death at hands of police

Police body camera footage released last week shows a Destin man being tasered 15 times before he stopped breathing and died last year in the back seat of a car on Interstate 85 in Georgia.

Man dies after being tasered by police

Man killed by police Taser

A young man has died after being tasered in the chest by police in Sydney’s south-west.

Video shows Arizona cops tasering a man 11 times, including on the testicles, as his horrified family scream for them to stop

SHOCK VIDEO: Cops Torture Dad in Front of Kids, Taser Him 11 Times, Including in the Testicles

A horrifying video has surfaced capturing a police officer torturing a man with a taser, hitting him 11 times, including in the testicles.

U.N.: Tasers Are A Form Of Torture

“Stun Guns” Are Under Fire After Six Deaths This Week; Rallies Held Demanding They Be Banned

Per the above article; “A United Nations committee said that use of Taser weapons can be a form of torture, in violation of the U.N. Convention Against Torture.

Use of the electronic stun devices by police has been marked with a sudden rise in deaths – including four men in the United States and two in Canada within the last week.

Canadian authorities are taking a second look at them, and in the United States, there is a wave of demands to BAN them”.

The definition of Torture is; “the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something“.

It is CLEAR… the extreme agony caused by ELECTRIC SHOCK from Tasers fits the definition of Torture AND Cruel & Unusual Punishment.

Tasers Kills, are Used to Punish & Torture and Should be OUTLAWED

Reuters documented more than 1,000 incidents since 2000 in which their Tasers have killed people

Police Union Is Lobbying To Expand Powers To Tase People Who Don’t Pose a Threat

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

Reuters finds 1,005 deaths in U.S. involving Tasers, largest accounting to date

More than 1,000 people in the U.S. have died after police stunned them with Tasers, and the stun gun was ruled to be a cause or contributing factor in 153 of those deaths, a Reuters examination found.

Per the above article; “More than 1,000 people in the U.S. have died after police stunned them with Tasers, and the stun gun was ruled to be a cause or contributing factor in 153 of those deaths, a Reuters examination found.

In the most thorough accounting to date of fatal police encounters involving the paralyzing stun guns, Reuters found that nine in 10 of those who died were unarmed and one in four suffered from mental illness or neurological disorders. Taser International Inc, the stun gun’s manufacturer, said its weapons are almost never to blame when someone dies after being stunned. Taser this year changed its name to Axon Enterprise Inc (AAXN.O).

Reuters collected autopsy results for 712 of the more than 1,000 deaths it documented in police incidents where Tasers were used. Nearly all those deaths occurred since 2000, when Tasers began gaining popularity with U.S. police. A majority of the deaths involved other types of force such as batons or pepper spray.

This story is the first in a series, “Shock Tactics,” about the weapon that transformed American policing. To read the story, click here

Tasers Overused and Misused by New York Police: Report – AboutLawsuits.com

Most Taser gun use by New York police departments fail to meet the appropriate criteria for when officers should shock suspects, with 15 percent of Taser

Per the above article: “Most Taser gun use by New York police departments fail to meet the appropriate criteria for when officers should shock suspects, with 15 percent of Taser shootings being clearly inappropriate, according to the findings of a new report.

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) released a report on Taser overuse and misuse (pdf), which highlights some disturbing trends, including minimal oversight and many cases of outright police brutality involving use of the weapons.

According to the report, officers routinely use Taser weapons to shock subjects who were unarmed and posed no physical threat. In addition, officers rarely issued any kind of verbal warning before firing their Taser weapons.

The NYCLU report looked at 851 incident reports involving Taser user from eight police departments, and judged them with 10 different police departments’ Taser use policies.

“These records show that officers misuse and overuse these weapons, resorting directly to Tasers rather than less intrusive police tactics to calm, subdue or arrest people they encounter,” NYCLU concluded. “While some studies tout the benefits of Tasers as a tool for law enforcement, the absence of sound policy, training and guidelines to direct the powerful weapons’ proper, lawful use contributes to this disturbing pattern of misuse and overuse and puts the state’s residents and visitors at unnecessary and unjustifiable risk.”

Among their findings the NYCLU determined that about 60% of all Taser incident reports examined did not meet the criteria for when a Taser should be used, and in 15% of those cases the use of the weapon was clearly inappropriate.

Unarmed and nonaggressive subjects were frequently shot with Taser weapons, with some suspects already handcuffed or restrained. In other cases, the suspects were only verbally noncompliant with a police order or passively resistant, which are cases that do not fit criteria for firing a Taser on them. Only 15% of the cases examined actually involved individuals who were armed.

More than a third of the cases examined involved multiple or prolonged shocks with the Taser weapons, and in 27 percent of the incidents police officers directly shot the Taser into the victim’s chest, against the 2009 recommendations of Taser International, the manufacturer, which instructed law enforcement agencies to avoid administering shocks to the chest in order to avoid causing heart problems.

The researchers also found that the subjects were shocked without verbal warning in 75% of the incidents examined. Half of the police jurisdictions looked at did not require a warning before shooting a Taser gun.

In 40 percent of the cases, Tasers were used against at-risk subjects like children, the elderly, the mentally ill, the physically infirm or subjects that were drunk. In 30% of those cases, the subject was mentally disturbed and was involved in no criminal activity at the time. In all of the incidents where police recorded the race of the target, 58% of those stunned were African Americans or Latinos”.

ONE OF THE REASONS TASERS HASN’T BEEN MADE ILLEGAL IS BECAUSE OF LOBBYING TO CONGRESS

Taser International Lobbyists

Taser International spent $60,000 lobbying in 2014. See the lobbyists it hired.

On the Records: A Shocking Lobby Gift

A lawmaker who has fought to regulate “stun guns” last year got a TASER from the company’s lobbyist.

First State Legalizes Taser Drones for Cops, Thanks to a Lobbyist

North Dakota police can now fire everything from stun guns to tear gas from flying robots thanks to a lobbyist from Big Drone.

OPINION:  It’s an outrage that such dangerous devises as tasers are legal and another example of how our government isn’t doing it’s job to protect citizens.

I think the families of ANYONE who dies or suffers pain after being SHOCKED with a TASER should SUE the City & Police Department responsible, and also sue the manufacture of the taser used for everything they’ve got.

Apparently that’s what it’s gonna take to put a stop to ELETRO-TORTURE by cops.

Electricity should be used to POWER APPLIANCES… NOT to TORTURE, PUNISH or cause PAIN to Human Beings and Animals

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