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OZARK, Ark. -- Ozark police said they were called to a home where a mother asked for help with her unruly child, but the 10-year-old's father said he's outraged at the force police used against his daughter. "I would like to say Ozark police Tased this little girl right here. Ten years old and [they] shot electricity through her body, and I want to know how the heck in God's green earth can they get away with this," said the girl's father, Anthony Medlock. Medlock said his daughter was at her mother's house when Ozark police Officer Dustin Bradshaw shocked...

An Australian man burst into flames after a policeman hit him on the bridge of the nose with his Taser. Sound ridiculous? Not so much if you know the man was arrested on suspicion of huffing gasoline.The man pretty immediately went up in flames, and the officer, recognizing that a man becomes significantly less dangerous once he's on fire, went to the suspect's aid, patting him all over (and getting burned himself) to quell the flames. While the officer tried to help the flammable man, he was hit by rocks thrown by a young woman also on the scene, also...

Taser International Inc. has set a late-July introduction for the latest in its line of stun guns, which can hit up to three targets instead of just one. Taser (Nasdaq:TASR) announced Wednesday it would have the company’s new X3 device ready by its annual conference in Fountain Hills on July 27. The Scottsdale-based company says the device relies on new technology it has developed called rotational pulse drive, which allows the stun gun to alternate the electronic current, allowing three shots. “The X3 is the culmination of over four years of intense research and development and offers exponentially increased capabilities,...

Blundering Afghan suicide bomber blows up 6 militants Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:58am EDT KABUL, March 26 (Reuters) - A would-be suicide bomber accidentally blew himself up on Thursday, killing six other militants as he was bidding them farewell to leave for his intended target, the Interior Ministry said. "The terrorist was on his way to his destination and saying good-bye to his associates and then his suicide vest exploded," a statement from the ministry said. Taliban-led attacks in Afghanistan have escalated in the past year with suicide and roadside bombings insurgents' weapons of choice. The incident happened in Helmand...

Video at link State Police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old after Martinsville (VA) Police used a stun device on a teenager Thursday night. It happened at 307 Rives Road. When 10 On Your side came to the apartment on Friday afternoon, the door was already open, but nobody was inside. What appears empty now, was swarming with police and investigators Thursday night. Justin Gregory, 15, says his friend, 17-year-old Derick, died after a Martinsville officer used a taser on him. Gregory told us Derick and Derick’s mother had only lived in the home for about a week; however,...

Authorities reported today that a naked man stunned by a police Taser was arrested Wednesday night following a car crash and a near collision with a police car.    Jorge Aguirre, 22, of Santa Ana was booked at Santa Ana City Jail, said police Sgt. Mark Kozakowski.  The incident happened just before 9 p.m. Wednesday. Santa Ana police officers were patrolling the neighborhood near Harbor Boulevard and Fifth Street when they heard a traffic collision, said Santa Ana police Cmdr. Larry Coleman. A driver flagged down the patrol car and pointed out a van driving away as the vehicle...

Wilmington, NC (AHN) - Five sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after two undercover deputies zapped a North Carolina man with a Taser while he was serving as a pall bearer at his father's funeral and loading the coffin into a hearse. Another pall bearer said the incident was so frightening that the other pall bearers nearly dropped the casket of 70-year-old Gladwyn Taft Russ Jr., who was being buried with military honors. New Hanover County Sheriff's deputies were trying to serve a warrant on the dead man's son, Gladwyn Taft Russ III, on charges of communicating a threat to his...

Contrary to speculation that an electronic control device could induce ventricular fibrillation, the rhythm found in alleged arrest-related deaths was primarily asystole which is associated with drug overdoses and cannot be induced with electrical stimulation; and, Real time ultrasound showed that even when electronic control device probes are placed across the heart, the ECD electrical pulses have no effect on the human heart. This is in contrast with the result occasionally seen in research using small pigs, which have important physiological differences that make their cardiovascular system significantly more sensitive to electricity than in humans.

STUART — Police arrested a 28-year-old man Sunday on a cruelty to animals charge after he yelled an obscenity at a police dog in a patrol vehicle, according to an arrest affidavit. Moses Rogers Jr., of the 700 block of East Avenue, also faces a disorderly conduct charge in connection with the 2:24 a.m. incidents in the 2300 block of Southeast Federal Highway. Police say Rogers yelled an obscene statement in the window as he walked past a patrol vehicle that contained a patrol dog “causing (the dog’s) behavior to become overloaded, tormenting the dog,” the affidavit states.

A veteran Florida sheriff's deputy is in hot water after she was caught on video dumping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair while he was being booked on Jan. 29, MyFOXTampaBay.com reported. The video shows Brian Sterner, 32, out of his wheelchair and on the floor while Deputy Charlotte Marshall Jones is booking him into the Hillsborough County Jail, the Web site reported.

CANTON -- Hope Steffey's night began with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, completely naked and sobbing on a jail cell floor. Steffey says Stark County sheriff's deputies used excessive force and assaulted her during a strip search 15 months ago, according to a federal lawsuit.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Shawn Hicks was sleeping on his couch when he said he was awoken by police officers who shocked him with a Taser stun gun. The officers had responded to a silent alarm about 2:45 a.m. on July 28. Even after Hicks explained to them that he lived there and the officers saw his identification, police shocked him twice more, Hicks said. Hicks, of North Braddock, filed a lawsuit against borough officials on Wednesday in Allegheny County Court. In it, he accuses the police department of false arrest, battery, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and slander.(snip) Police...

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- A 75-year-old woman was arrested at a Clearwater McDonald's drive-thru, because police say she wouldn't pull her car forward. Authorities said Jean Merola, a grandmother of eight, was arrested for disorderly conduct after she refused an officer's orders to move her car while she waited for the coffee and fries she ordered at the drive-through window. Merola said the McDonald's employees told her to wait there for her food. Merola was handcuffed behind her back and put in the cruiser. Another officer arrived and took her to the Pinellas County Jail . Merola said she was searched,...

Utah Stun Gun Trooper Back on the Job The Associated Press Fri, Jan 11, 2008 The Utah trooper who used a stun gun on a motorist who was walking away from him in a confrontation widely viewed on YouTube is back on duty after taking a verbal communications course. Trooper Jon Gardner returned to work recently after internal investigators question the motorist in the Sept. 14 confrontation on U.S. 40 in eastern Utah, said Col. Lance Davenport, commander of the state highway patrol. The driver, Jared Massey, obtained the trooper's dashboard camera video through a public records request and posted...

Authorities this morning identified a man suspected in a triple stabbing who was shot by officers after an electronic stun gun failed to stop him. John K. Adams, 47, was killed by officers near the County Line Bar on Highway 411 South near the McMinn County line. Adams is a suspect in a home invasion this morning that resulted in the stabbings of three people. The shooting occurred about 5:52 a.m. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been called in to probe the officer-involved shooting of Adams, according to Monroe County Sheriff Bill Bivens. The situation began at 5:15 a.m....

Video has surfaced of a Daytona Beach police officer using a TASER on a woman in a store. According to our partners at the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Elizabeth Beeland was shopping at a Best Buy in Daytona Beach last month. Before she checked out, she got an upsetting phone call about her child and stepped outside to take the call. According to the police report, the clerk said Beeland was suspicious and flagged down Daytona Beach police officer Claudia Wright, who was in the store. When Officer Wright confronted Beeland, she yelled at her. When they came back in the...

Coon Rapids man charged with shooting officer in road rage The Anoka County courthouse revealed documents Wednesday that charge 35-year-old Martin Scott Treptow with the shooting of a Robbinsdale Police officer. Treptow, of Coon Rapids, claims Officer Landen Beard was not wearing a uniform at the time he forced Treptow off of the road on June 7. Beard supposedly was driving an unmarked car. When the two men confronted each other, Treptow claimed Beard pointed a gun at his wife. "We were about three feet away from each other and he pointed the gun at my wife. It was a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Don't Tase Me, Bro," a phrase that swept the nation after a U.S. college student used it seeking to stop campus police from throwing him out of a speech by Sen. John Kerry, was named on Wednesday as the most memorable quote of 2007. Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, said the plea made by University of Florida student Andrew Meyer on September 17, accompanied by Meyer's screams as he was tased, beat out the racial slur that cost shock jock Don Imus his job and the Iranian president's declaration that...

S.J. OFFICER'S RUSE BECAME EVIDENCE By Leslie Griffy Mercury News Article Launched: 12/16/2007 01:37:24 AM PST There was one major problem with the Santa Clara County crime lab report that implicated a San Jose man of sexual assault: It wasn't true. The document was a fake, created by a San Jose police detective. The crime lab analyst who purportedly prepared the document doesn't exist. The number used to identify it was false. Even so, detective Matthew Christian testified as though the phony report were authentic. The case unraveled when the defense attorney sought the résumé of the lab analyst, only...

Police blamed bad information for sending a SWAT team into a north Minneapolis house early Sunday morning in a raid that ended with shots exchanged between police -- who were struck by bullets -- and the resident, who said he was just defending his family. The homeowner, who does not speak English, told his brother that he thought the police were the "bad guys" after they broke through the back door of the house, where he lives with his wife and six children. He fired and hit two police officers, who were not injured thanks to their bullet-proof vests and...

Alarmed by recent incidents? Wait'll you see what the company is planning for 2008 The Taser is going wireless. Until now, the electric-shock gun consisted of two barbed darts attached to wires that shoot out and strike the victim, immobilizing the person with 50,000 volts of electricity, causing severe pain and intense muscle contraction. But the wires could only extend a few metres. With the new "extended range electronic projectile," or XREP, the Taser has been turned into a kind of self-contained shotgun shell and can be fired, wire-free, from a standard shotgun, which police typically have in their arsenal...

Boston Police to Search Kids' Bedrooms for Guns Saturday, November 17, 2007 Coming soon to Boston: Police in your children’s bedrooms. Police are starting a program to search homes in high-crime areas, without a warrant, for weapons in children’s bedrooms, the Boston Globe reports. Click here to read the full story in the Boston Globe.The teenagers found to be in possession of guns will only face charges if the weapon is linked to a shooting or homicide, and parents are given the right to deny the detectives access to their homes.

A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds was shot twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been a security threat. Nicholas Gaubert has described how the incident happened in July 2005, just a week before the fatal shooting of Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes. Mr Gaubert, 34, said he was suffering severe post-traumatic stress as a result of the shooting. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is investigating. Mr Gaubert, who lives in Leeds, said he had now decided to speak out after the Crown Prosecution Service...

PALM BAY -- (AP) -- Police Tasered a teenager Wednesday after the high school student would not stop fighting another student on a school campus, authorities said. Douglas Frasier, 17, has been charged with battery on a school official, disrupting a school function and resisting arrest. Frasier and the other student, Arnaldo Disla, were fighting over a girl at Bayside High School, authorities said. Frasier was stunned with the Taser twice and had a head injury after the incident, police said. ''It was not a major head injury,'' said Yvonne Martinez, spokeswoman for the Palm Bay Police Department. Disla, 18,...

UF Police Cleared In Taser Incident Charges May Be Filed Against Student   POSTED: 12:19 pm EDT October 24, 2007 UPDATED: 12:48 pm EDT October 24, 2007   GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- University of Florida police have been cleared in the use of a Taser gun against a student on campus. A report by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the officers were justified when they used the Taser gun on Andrew Meyer. Police have said Meyer refused to stop questioning Sen. John Kerry at a campus event last month. The videotaped altercation and Meyer's cries of "Don't Tase...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has released a 300-page report on the infamous zapping of University of Florida senior Andrew Meyer, whose rowdy actions, catch-phrase and police Tasering during a John Kerry town hall forum made international headlines. ''Don't Tase me, Bro,'' Meyer, 21, squealed after police put the screaming, combative student down on the ground and relaxed him with 50,000 volts from a Taser. FDLE has determined that University of Florida police did nothing improper in subduing Meyer after he resisted arrest. A statement from University of Florida President Bernie Machen and links to the FDLE report can...

Don't Tase Me, Bro (to the tune of Don't Bring Me Down by Electric Light Orchestr) I asked a question and you got all upset, (Don't Tase me, Bro) You didn't answer and you still haven't yet. Don't tase me Bro, no no no no no, oooo-woooo, hooo. I'll tell you once more before wrythe on the floor Don't tase me, Bro. You make a speech and you get lots of cash, (Don't Tase me, Bro) One little question and I'm thrown on my ass, Don't tase me Bro, no no no no no, oooo-woooo, hooo. I'll tell you once...

A four word editorial with a four letter word in it is sparking a spirited discussion on free speech at Colorado State University. The Rocky Mountain Collegian published an editorial on page 4 of the paper Friday which read "Taser this ... F*** Bush." The expletive was spelled out. The last two words were in bold type, larger than most headlines. A caption below said, "this column represents the views of the Collegian's Editorial Board." "I think they went over the line a little bit, but it's free speech and they're allowed to write what they want," one student told...

Man Tasered For Refusing To Lift Hand Off Quran   POSTED: 10:10 pm EDT September 21, 2007 UPDATED: 10:12 pm EDT September 21, 2007   OCALA, Fla. -- Four police officers are under investigation here after a man accused them of using a Taser on him three times when he wouldn't take his hand off a Quran hidden under his shirt, a police spokesman said Friday. Jeffrey Shields, 49, of Ocala, filed a complaint with the Ocala Police Department alleging an officer used a Taser to force him to hold up his right hand, police spokesman Lou Biondi said....