LAPD officers shot a woman in Baldwin Hills after a Taser failed to subdue her. She's now hospitalized in stable condition.
The then-26-year-old stopped at a Wawa gas station to fill his bike’s tank. There, deputies tackled him to the ground and tased him, the lawsuit claims. A deputy then tased him a second time, according to the lawsuit, which ignited the gas around them. The fire caused burns to most of Barreto-Baerga’s body and he was not expected to survive.
A lack of state standards leaves Mississippi police and sheriff’s departments on their own to decide when to use stun guns, and many give officers a free hand.
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A traffic stop Thursday evening turned into a melee that saw a Peoria Police officer struck and his Taser taken, a prosecutor said. The statements were made Tuesday afternoon during a detention hearing where the man accused in the incident,
Frate fired his taser again after the man “had already cooperated, gotten on the ground, and raised his hands in surrender,” according to the indictment. Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said in a Jan. 21 news release that his department referred the case to federal authorities and is cooperating.
An investigation found excessive Taser use in Mississippi to be widespread after reporters examined thousands of activations from department logs, many of which had never before been reviewed.
Councilman Beau Rawlins and Councilwoman Marie Robb questioned spending the money while city departments were in a hiring freeze and asked why the deputies needed weapons other than their firearms.
Dangerous weapons, including a suspected taser, a sword and knives, have been recovered from a car after armed officers conducted a stop and search in the middle of the night in Doncaster.
Jean Louis Barreto-Baerga is filing a lawsuit against Osceola County and six deputies from the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office after an incident involving him and the OCSO on Feb. 27, 2022, where he was tased and caught on fire,
Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared a London police officer of criminal wrongdoing for using a Taser to “incapacitate” a woman in distress following a mental health call.
Former Maui police officer Carlos Frate was indicted for unreasonable force in a tasing incident last January.