| The weapon was a taser, a stun gun that temporarily numbs your body with 50,000 volts of energy. |
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| The deputies say they decided to taser the man after he pulled a knife on him. |
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| The police must have felt overwhelmed and would naturally need to taser the groom or risk having to use deadly force instead. |
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| And hey, if they get out of line, they can always taser them into submission. |
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| So she reached to taser him, but accidentally grabbed her gun instead and sort of shot the guy. |
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| Moments later, the bar owner pulls out his taser and tases both the male and the female go to the ground. |
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| They promised not to harm them, not to torture or brutalize them with taser guns. |
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| Get out of the car, if you walk, otherwise I'm going to taser you. |
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| As a first line, I think we should try to reduce as much as possible the use of the taser. |
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| Would you agree that we have a good idea of the circumstances in which a taser can be used? |
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| I'm not sure it argues well that the taser should be used on people in a state of excited delirium. |
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| Michael Slager said he shot Walter Scott in self-defence after Mr Scott took his taser. |
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| In another case in Tulsa on April 2nd, a 73-year-old reserve police officer killed a man when he accidentally fired his gun instead of his taser. |
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| Let us try to understand what happens when an electrical current is applied with a taser. |
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| Could taser discharges used to kill people be detected beyond a reasonable doubt during autopsies? |
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| I think people need to understand one of the fallacies about the taser device. |
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| If somebody has a very low pain threshold, that person is going to have a much more severe reaction to a taser. |
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| Sudden death in custody is not restricted to the use of a conducted energy weapon, or taser, as we commonly refer to that device. |
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| This patient was also hobbled, so you had hobbling, taser, chemical restraints, and then his death. |
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| He eventually had to be subdued by police with taser stun guns. |
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| In both cases the taser failed to incapacitate the individual, and they were ultimately shot. |
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| Police in West Yorkshire used a taser electronic stun gun on a bus passenger who was wearing a rucksack, just six days after the London bombings, it was revealed yesterday. |
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| In fact a taser was fired at children on just eight occasions, the youngest being a 14-year-old lad armed with a hammer. |
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| I took off the sheath, the holster, so to speak, of the taser and I loaded the taser. |
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| We have not seen an increase in the risk factor with multiple exposures to the taser. |
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| People with different interests will show that death is not a predictable consequence of using a taser. |
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| They therefore petition the House of Commons to act now, with an immediate moratorium on taser use by Canadian enforcement agencies. |
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| But it also gives note to the point that these deaths occurred long before the taser ever came along. |
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| That could explain the cases when an individual dies a few minutes after a taser shock. |
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| So in theory, at least, based on these pig studies, the taser could cause capture of the heart, electrical capture, and if at a vulnerable period in the cardiac cycle, could cause ventricular fibrillation. |
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| I suspect you're pretty alive to the issue that the taser can be used both in the stun mode, which is sort of a cattle prod situation, and the probe, which fires up to 21 feet with two prongs that insert in the skin. |
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| In your presentation, you also talked about the heartbeats per minute, when the taser is applied, being... I think the top range was 137 or thereabout. |
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| That's why the most dangerous period with excited delirium, whether you've done chokeholds or taser or anything else, is within about three to five minutes of when the person has quieted down. |
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| Very uncommonly is there specific pathology, including with the taser. |
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| The problem is that when these people die in sudden in-custody death, regardless of taser application, what happens is the person very suddenly becomes quiescent, and at that point there is no pulse. |
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| Yet what I'm hearing from Taser and from law enforcement is that if someone is in this agitated state of excited delirium, it's almost better to taser them, because they could be heading towards a heart attack on their own. |
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| I haven't the uniform, the taser, the nightstick, the handcuffs, the physical strength, the authority. |
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| Two of them, like the case in Alberta that was described where the taser was discharged but failed, were associated with gunshot fatalities by law enforcement officials. |
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| We have not seen a case, however, where the taser was discharged and the person became unresponsive within the 15-second interval that one would expect if it were the taser causing a cardiac dysrhythmia. |
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| We need to ask ourselves if the taser, this non-lethal weapon, truly corresponds to our values, to the kind of society and police officers we want to have in Canada. |
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| The answer to that, from police circles, is that if you are staring down the barrel of someone else's gun, it shouldn't occur to you to draw a taser. |
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| Furthermore, they believe Canadian citizens are in danger since it is clearly evident that enforcement agencies are using deadly taser devices as a convenience tool and are breaking the rules of law. |
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| In another inquest of death due to excited delirium where was taser was not used, that jury also recommended that the taser ought to be available for front-line use in Ontario. |
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| I think that the taser should be defined as an electrical weapon. |
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| The operations procedures contained several safeguards to ensure that the taser was not used inappropriately and was operated only by trained, certified staff. |
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| The unit responds to incidents with firearms and taser guns, and are the only officers in the force who are routinely armed. |
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| The black flashlight had handgrips and two protruding electrodes similar to those on a taser which claimed to discharge five million volts. |
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| The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing. |
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| Bagnell, who was high on cocaine and other drugs, was hit by the high-voltage charge of a police Taser in a Vancouver hotel room. |
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| West Midlands police used a non-lethal Taser stun gun to subdue one of the bombing suspects captured last week. |
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| The senate voted 36-25 not to endorse a recommendation that campus public safety officers be armed with Taser stun guns. |
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| Officers chased him on foot, tried to disable him with a Taser gun, and finally wrestled him from the cart. |
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| An adolescent was subdued with a Taser stun gun and subsequently collapsed. |
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| A motorist was shot, apparently with a Taser stun gun, during a road rage type attack as his young son looked on, police said last night. |
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| And although the Taser was on his left hip, it was angled so he could reach it with his right hand. |
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| Also, more than 500 people have died in the U.S. since 2011 after being shocked by a Taser, according to Amnesty International. |
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| Now police have begun using the Taser only as a response to physical violence. |
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| In the background, there are sounds of the policeman's Taser being charged up. |
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| And the male cop stuns Lollie with his Taser, right in front of the man's children. |
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| First, back in 2003, Bristol witnessed Uncle Mike shoot a Taser gun at her cousin, Payton. |
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| Founded in 1993, TASER first transformed law enforcement with its electrical weapons. |
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| This is a hugely exciting moment for both TASER and its Axon technology platform. |
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| Others say at issue is the improper and excessive use of the Taser itself. |
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| Deputies shocked him with a Taser and shot him with a stun beanbag before subduing him, officials said. |
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| Deputies controlled him by hogtying the inmate and shooting him with a Taser gun multiple times. |
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| So one decided the only way to end his buck-naked sprint in West Melbourne, Florida, was to bare down with his Taser gun. |
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| A SUSPECTED milk float thief was threatened with a Taser after a milkman's van was snatched during his early-morning rounds. |
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| Suspects have occasionally been hospitalized after a Taser shock, and at least 150 people have died. |
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| The numbers include every time an officer has had to aim or draw a weapon, as well as fire the Taser. |
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| In response to the continuing problem of Taser abuse in Eugene, Randy Prince submitted a prospective petition and received a ballot title. |
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| Examples include an incident in March when police used Taser to stop a self-harmer stabbing himself in Eston. |
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| Rick Smith, co-founder of manufacturer Taser International, has described their effect as being like 1,000 pneumatic drills shaking every fibre of the body. |
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| One officer fired a Taser, an electroshock weapon, at the man. |
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| Then the inquiry heard the sound of the multiple Taser zappings, amplified for viewing by Braidwood, witnesses and spectators, including Dziekanski's mother. |
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| There are only now three documented direct intracranial injuries due to TASER penetration of skull, two from our department and one from University of Kansas. |
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