Sentences with phrase «tasering people»

He had started as a kid, for kicks, taking cars on joyrides, then got recruited by an Indian gang operating in London that tasered people in expensive cars, then pulling them out and dumping them by the road side.

Not exact matches

The link between the electric weapon and serious injury remains unclear; some people may hurt themselves in a fall after being Tasered while other risk factors include hypertensive heart disease or drug use, leading some to conclude that the problem has more to do with officer accountability.

The company came under fire in 2015 after a Washington Post investigation found that, on average, one person per week died in incidents in which police used Tasers that year.

Here we have a police officer warding people off with a taser gun during a Black Friday Walmart sale in 2011:

A Civilian Complaint Review Board report on the use of Tasers by the New York Police Department was scrubbed of language highlighting a central finding in an earlier - circulated draft report: that in most Taser encounters reviewed, officers used the stun guns on unarmed people.

And in fact in winter time with people wearing winter clothes, often times a Taser is not effective,» Brown said.

In the US, where Taser use is far higher and the police are generally more trigger - happy than our own, more than 460 people have been killed by the weapons.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which supports the use of Tasers, has warned that police are using the weapon on people who are already in custody.

The controversial Taser guns stun individuals with an electric shock but are only permitted to be used by trained firearms officers facing an armed person.

«The IPCC is keeping a close eye on the extension of Taser use and if people feel excessive force has been used they should make a complaint,» commissioner Deborah Glass said.

A recent report from Amnesty International revealed 152 people have died after being shot by Tasers since 2001 - 61 last year alone.

Soares wants Schneiderman to oversee the investigation into the death of Donald «Dontay» Ivy, 39, who died after being tasered and chased by police in April, according to two people familiar with the request Soares sent this week.

Tasers deliver an incapacitating shock to a person via a wire attached to a dart.

Unlike a Taser gun, which shoots two electrified wires, ShockRounds can stop a person more than 300 feet away.

In 2009, despite winning legal challenges, Taser International revised its training manuals to warn users that they should avoid firing at people's chests owing to the proximity of the heart to the electric pulses.

When you see a taser demonstration, the volunteer usually gets a half - second burst — enough to fell most people with excruciating muscle spasms.

Unlike tasers or rubber bullets, there is no possibility that the lasers could kill a person, they just create a beam that is too intense to look at.

So, what that mostly leaves are the jokes, the majority of which could use some serious punching - up from a screenwriter who's a lot less inclined toward delivering the most obvious gags in any given situation; if, in a movie, you've ever seen the wrong person get zapped with a taser, a poisonous snake biting someone's naughty bits, or a rich, out - of - touch character humorously failing to relate to the working class, well, you've probably seen it executed better than it is here.

Violence: This animated movie contains non-graphic and mildly explicit violence throughout, including depictions of decapitation, weapons use (swords, Tasers, nets, mechanical dogs) explosions and riots (protesters throw things at other people).

«Nearly one - third of all Taser incidents involved a person that the officer believed to be emotionally disturbed,» Barone says.

Other people think that it is like being shocked with a taser, this is also false.

He came back after a month's hiatus, encouraging people to eat Tide Pods and used a taser on dead animals.

While engaging in a peaceful act of civil disobedience, two people were repeatedly tasered and pepper - sprayed over a 5 - hour period — apparently at TransCanada's encouragement.

Some of those died from falls after the Taser when the person suffered a head injury.

A study led by a group at Wake Forest University reported that out of 1,000 persons, nearly 99.7 % persons subjected to Taser use experience minor injuries or none at all.

Through the years I have come across all kinds of unexpected reasons why people have found themselves on the wrong end of a police Taser (here and here, for example).

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) voice this concern to the Toronto police board saying that CEW use «raises serious human rights concerns because people with mental health disabilities tend to have more frequent contact with police and may be more likely to have a Taser used on them because of behaviours and responses to police instructions that appear «unusual» or «unpredictable.»

It is strictly a reference to what the airborne Prick Police force would need on all of its officers» persons in order to quickly deflate dangerous situations... being official balloon pricks designed to bring down pricks in balloons... kind» a like air - borne tasers.