Sentences with phrase «tasered at»

Nothing like getting tasered at a preseason football game to let you know that you're out of hand.

By way of example, in the last year, he has been instructed in approximately 15 inquests including acting for the family in a recent inquest into the death of Mr Andrew Pimlott, who died in circumstances where a police officer fired a taser at him whilst he was covered in petrol.

Wojcicki was responding to a question from interviewer Kara Swisher about why YouTube hadn't simply banned Paul in response to his video from Japan, which he subsequently apologized for, and a later video in which he shot a Taser at a dead rat.

Not exact matches

At this point, the Taser drone is just a concept, says Rick Smith, CEO and founder of Taser.

Like its body cameras, Smith says, all product development at Taser starts with customer meetings.

Taser shares have gained 44 percent year to date, but have fallen 12 percent this quarter after the company lost the New York Police Department body cam contract to Vievu Safariland at a price that Taser described as «near or below cost.»

Last week, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in San Diego, Taser International, which makes stun guns, body cameras, and digital evidence storage software for law enforcement agencies around the world, met with its customers, police and other law enforcement personnel, to discuss current products and ideas for future products.

The contractor in question, the Virginia - based US Corrections Special Operations Group (US C - SOG), has been stationed at Rikers Island since May, training the jail's nearly 200 Emergency Services Unit (ESU) officers in tactical techniques, including the use of Tasers and Kel - Tec shotguns loaded with rubber «less lethal» ammunition.

«The situation at the time the officer fired his Taser was, thus, replete with uncertainty and a reasonable officer in his shoes could have worried he faced imminent danger from a lethal weapon,» Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.

Taser, of course, is best known for the tiny stun guns carried by police and sometimes civilians, made particularly famous a few years ago when a student at the University of Florida screamed «Don't tase me, bro!»

At the time, Harris was being apprehended by officers after a footchase, and the deputy yelled «Taser, Taser» before shooting him with a handgun.

Speaking to Fox 10, she said: «I did not touch him at all with the taser.

#Eagles CB Daryl Worley was arrested at 6 am this morning when he became combative with police and Philadelphia police administrated a taser on him, sources tell @MikeGarafolo and me.

I resisted my initial urge to tell her that I didn't care if Roland was scheduled to play at Carnegie Hall, the only way she was going to whisk away my sixth - grade slugger would be with the aid of Tasers and tear gas.

Do not look at them without blast goggles, or put a cornerback without three years starting experience and a taser on wide receiver James Washington.

«With Tasers, from looking at research and articles and studies, there have been many individuals who have died through the use of Tasers.

City officials are authorizing new safety measures and equipment use at the Rikers Island jail, including taser guns for corrections officers, multiple sources confirmed to POLITICO New York.

The IPCC found many forces took the police officer's description of the Taser incident at face value «without any further probing».

A 2011 eviction at Dale Farm saw police enter with tasers after a ten - year long eviction battle through the courts.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city is authorizing new safety measures and equipment use at the Rikers Island jail — including taser guns for corrections officers

Neither Cornegy nor Torres appear to have raised any campaign money at any time from any employee of the Taser corporation — regarded as VieVu's top rival for the NYPD contract.

Five months have passed since the taser - related death of Donald «Dontay» Ivy at the hands of Albany Police.

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 Turner lunged at a CMPD officer, the latter fired the taser probes into Turner's chest.

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.

Along the way, our desperate heroes get Tasered, shot at and roughed up by a crazy cast of characters, including former boxer Mike Tyson and a foul - mouthed Chinese gambler.

Hacker Computer + Flashlight This is basically a makeshift Taser which can zap zombies at very close range.

The officer later claimed that he meant to reach for his Taser and not his revolver, but his mistake was fatal: Grant, who was unarmed and restrained at the time of the shooting, died later at a local hospital.

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).

From wannabe hero Dave Lizewski's (Aaron Johnson) first attempt at vigilantism resulting in his stabbed, battered body being carted into the Emergency Room, to a later scene when he shoots a guy in the face with a Taser gun «Hangover style», the tone is all over the place, and yet, ironically, as steady as a rock.

Two characters have a Taser fired at them, which causes their clothes to start on fire.

Kris (Seimetz) is tasered and drugged one evening after a late night at work.Read More →

Recent solo exhibitions and major performances include those at Nottingham Contemporary (2014); The Monteverdi Gallery, Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Monteverdi, Italy (2013); Home Made Tasers, Studio 231, New Museum, New York (2011 - 12) and Odd Man Out, Sadie Coles, London, 2011.

Taylor's Tasered (2006), his contribution to this exhibition, is painted in colours rich yet flat, with brushstrokes at once careful and urgent; the painting is both responsive and considered.

2014 saw the purchase of Marvin Gaye Chetwynd's performance work Home Made Tasers for the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery in Leicester, as well as a group of works by Mel Brimfield for the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, with the Peter Scott Gallery at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts.

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.

And in 2007, the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski made international headlines when he died after five Taser shots from police at the Vancouver International Airport.

Attorneys representing the estate of the victim, Larry Noles, say a juror contacted them and alleged that at least two other jurors, including the foreman, consulted the Web site of Taser International.

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.

Two B.C. lawyers, who have been critical of police investigating police - related deaths or serious injury incidents, believe the B.C. government's announcement last month to establish a civilian review body will go a long way in restoring public confidence in police after the high - profile tasering death of polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport in 2007.

Today, events like the recent tasering and arrest of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer during his attempts to question John Kerry at a campus event are covered from every angle by potential witnesses and citizen journalists, as these YouTube videos show.

Criminal law: Following a public inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski, a visitor from Poland who was tasered by RCMP officers at the Vancouver International Airport and who was pronounced dead shortly thereafter, the applicant, along with three other RCMP officers involved in the incident, were charged with perjury and tried in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

Again at the Beldar Blog, Beldar offers a frame - by - frame analysis of whether Meyer was tasered before or after he was handcuffed, which goes to the question of whether the officers reasonably believed that the taser was necessary to prevent Meyer from evading arrest.

Is a citizen justified in disarming a policeman who is applying a taser to a suspect who committed a misdemeanor, but who is at an elevated risk of dying due to health conditions of which the police may not be aware?

«400 - pound woman caught shoplifting when motorized cart gets stuck at Rochester Hills Meijer... police use Taser to subdue her»

Is a citizen justified in disarming a policeman who is applying a taser to a suspect who committed a misdemeanor, but who is at an elevated risk of dying due to health conditions of which the police...

The Department of Justice study also found that when Tasers are made widely available to police, the evidence shows that they «rapidly overtake other force alternatives» and in some cases, were being used at rates that exceeded that of officers using «soft empty hand tactics.»

Kwesi Millington, the RCMP officer who Tasered Robert Dziekanski the night he died at Vancouver's airport, has been sentenced for perjury but released on bail.

So now its left to the civil side of justice championed by personal injury lawyers, in this case Alphonse Gerhardstein, to answer the question was the death of Everette Howard negligently / recklessly caused by the police and / or was the taser manufacturer at fault.

Did you know that at the age of 50, Jack Cover was the man who invented the Taser?