Report Links Stun Guns To Deaths
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Medical examiners have found that Taser electric stun guns may have played a role in at least five deaths, contradicting the manufacturer&#39;s claim that the weapons never killed or injured anyone, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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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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The murder rate jumped by more than 10 percent among dozens of large U.S. cities since 2004, a study shows in the latest sign of the end of a national lull in violent crime. Robberies also spiked during the two-year period, as did felony assaults and attacks with guns, according to the report to be released Friday by the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement think tank.
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Taser stun guns used by police are potentially deadly and must be controlled, a human rights group says.
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Amnesty International criticized Tuesday the growing use of tasers by law-enforcement officers, saying that more than 70 people have died during the last three years
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Transportation Security Administration has approved Taser International&#39;s stun guns for use aboard a major international commercial airline.
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A new report finds evidence that onetime police hero Jon Burge used violence against suspects
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The federal government has given approval for Korean Air Lines Co. to arm its crew members with stun guns aboard flights to and from the United States, but few other carriers have shown an interest in arming pilots with non-lethal weapons, the Transportation Security Administration said yesterday.
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In Washington, the Pentagon revealed that four US special forces soldiers have been punished for unauthorised use of Taser electric stun guns on prisoners, after further allegations of US prisoner abuse were investigated.
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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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U.S. securities regulators are probing Taser International Inc.'s  claims about the safety of its stun guns and a recent order from a distributor, the company said.
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Male U.S. veterans are twice as likely to die by suicide than people with no military service, and are more likely to kill themselves with a gun than others who commit suicide, researchers said on Monday.
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Stun gun maker's stock recovers following positive reports.
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Health and safety officials are urged to act after a report finds one in three industry deaths occur on building sites.
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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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A postmortem examination on a man shot with a police stun gun moments before he died found the incident "was not a contributory factor in his death", police have said
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VICTORIA (CP) - Police in British Columbia should continue using the Taser as a weapon of force despite four deaths, but better training is required, says a report released Wednesday.