Stun gun use on mentally ill questioned
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Advocates for the mentally ill are questioning Houston police officers' use of stun guns on suspects with mental problems, many of whom were unarmed and then never charged with a crime.
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The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday responded to the deadliest shooting rampage in modern American history by  passing legislation to help keep guns out of hands of the mentally ill.
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The government will again try to push through powers to detain mentally ill people who have not committed crimes.
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Police use of stun guns must remain tightly controlled in Britain after more than 70 deaths were linked to the weapons in the United States and Canada, a human rights group said today.
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Taser International Inc. shares jumped as much as 20 percent on news the US Transportation Security Administration approved the company&#39;s stun guns for use on the aircraft of Korean Air Lines flying in the US.
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HOUSTON -- Roiled by allegations of using unjustified deadly force against Latino suspects, the Houston Police Department began using stun guns two years ago so officers could avoid pulling the trigger of an automatic weapon.
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Sheriff's officials defended their use of a Taser stun gun to subdue an autistic teenager who left a social services center where he was being treated. "It was necessary," sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said in defense of the use of a Taser stun gun to subdue 15-year-old Taylor Karras.
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An expert panel said Thursday that it was unclear which treatments could help combat veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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A police officer used a stun gun on a 75-year-old woman who became distraught when she could not locate a sick friend at a nursing home, according to an internal report.
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By Justin Davenport, Oliver Finegold And Bo Wilson, Evening Standard. A former mental patient was being questioned today after the knife rampage which left one man dead and five other people seriously injured.
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Blog: It's a stun gun on a robot. The military wants them, and probably so do a lot of 13-year old boys.
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Taser stun guns used by British police are potentially deadly and must be strictly controlled, a leading human rights group has warned.
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A MAN with a history of mental illness was being held by police last night after a stabbing spree which left one person dead and five others seriously injured.
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Advocates for the use of stun guns by police departments point to evidence that they are generally safe. But a recent demonstration shows otherwise.
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Heidi Gill says she was in extreme pain after a Warren, Ohio, police officer used a Taser gun on her multiple times. "I've never been electrocuted. I didn't know what this was," she told CNN. The officer has been placed on paid leave pending an investigation.
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Police used a Taser on a 12-year-old boy who attacked another special-needs student, the third time this fall authorities in South Florida have used a stun gun on children.
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MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. - It took a taser gun to subdue a man accused of biting off part of a man's nose and attempting to gouge out his eyeball during a bar fight. Plastic surgeons grafted skin to repair Edgar D. Hellar's nose, according to the Marshall County Sheriff's Department.