A Plantation, Fla., police officer will be sent for additional training after accidentally deploying her Taser on a 10-year-old boy right after telling the child and his brother that the weapon wasn’t ...

Video showing a black man standing up against a wall in the Richmond County (Ga.) Jail with his hands behind his back before deputies used a Taser on him directly contradicts a police report stating ...

Amnesty International UK has warned that police using a new “10-shot super Taser” is “fundamentally dangerous” after the Metropolitan Police was hit with a fresh scandal. The charity said the new ...

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