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Bizarre, Criminal law, Politics, Society, Torts November 3, 2009November 3, 2009

San Jose Police Taser Man and Break His Arm After He Tries to Clean His Hands

Scott Wright paid a heavy price for clean hands. Wright was working on his old Cadillac in a parking lot…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society, Torts November 1, 2009

Shock Video: Utah Officer Tasers Man for Traffic Ticket in Front of Pregnant Wife

On this video, a Utah officer appears to taser a him for a traffic ticket simply because he does not…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society November 1, 2009November 1, 2009

Video: Man Mocks Police, Police Taser Man, Man Escapes Police

This is a bizarre video. The police officers are trying to arrest a man who is mocking them and not…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society, Torts October 25, 2009October 25, 2009

Video: Police Beat and Taser Foreign Student In San Jose

This video is the focus of an investigation into the beating of a San Jose State student Phoung Ho by…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society October 1, 2009October 1, 2009

85-Year-Old Man Pulls Gun on Officer in Police Station And Does NOT Get Tasered or Shot

We often chronicle the abuses of judges, lawyers, and police officers on this blog. Occasionally, however, we can celebrate acts…

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Criminal law, Society, Torts September 22, 2009September 22, 2009

California Police Repeatedly Taser and Partially Strip Double Amputee in Public — But Bring No Charges After Six Days Incarceration

Police in Merced, California are looking into a case of a double amputee who claims that he was tasered twice…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society September 5, 2009September 5, 2009

Sheriff Under Investigation After Allegedly Giving Taser to Man Who Appears on Video to Shock Son as Joke

This video is the subject of an investigation into Hallwood Chief of Police Wilson Glenn, who is accused of giving…

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Criminal law, Politics, Society August 30, 2009

Memphis Turns Down Tasers For Its Officers

In a rare departure from the trend in the expanding use of tasers by law enforcement, the city council of…

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Constitutional Law, Criminal law, Politics, Society August 28, 2009August 28, 2009

Cincinnati Police Officer Suspended After Tasering Woman on Her Knees With Her Hands in the Air

Cincinnati Police Officer Anthony Plummer is accused of tasering the wrong person in the wrong way. First, he allegedly tasered…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society August 26, 2009August 26, 2009

Oregon Police Do NOT Taser Naked Man

Raymond Lawrence Roberson, 70, first threatened to blow up his van, threatened anyone who came near him, paraded around with…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society August 21, 2009August 21, 2009

Police Taser Sets Homeless Man on Fire

We have another case of a man bursting into flames after being tasered. Recently, an Australian man burst into flames…

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Academia, Bizarre, Courts, Lawyering August 21, 2009

Shock Video: BYU Professor Tasered in Court

We have been following questionable uses of tasers by police. This video from 2004 raises some disturbing questions where a…

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Bizarre, Constitutional Law, Criminal law, Media, Society August 17, 2009February 15, 2010

Boise Man Sues Police After Being Tasered in Buttocks and Threatened With Sodomy

A man in Boise, Idaho is suing after the Boise Police Department declared that an officer who tasered him on…

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Bizarre, Constitutional Law, Criminal law, Media, Society, Torts August 15, 2009

Shock Video: New York Officer Tasers Mother in Front of Children After Minor Traffic Stop

Audra Harmon, 38, has sued the Onondaga County (N.Y.) Sheriff’s Department in yet another abusive use of a taser without…

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Bizarre, Society August 15, 2009

Police Taser Man Sitting on His Front Porch

This video has raised objections over why police appear to walk up to a man sitting on his porch and…

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