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Florida Cops Get New Semi-Automatic Tasers- TASERS Kill! Ban Tasers!!
Submitted by copwatch on Sun, 02/27/2011 - 11:59pmNew Taser Packs Triple The Stun (TV news video in link)
Local Police Department Buys New Semi-Automatic Taser
January 27, 2011 TAVARES, Fla. -- A Central Florida police department is putting a new Taser on the streets that packs not one, but three electrifying shots.
Tavares police believe the powerful tool will let them subdue suspects before they harm officers or themselves.
The new model is called the X3. It can be fired three times in rapid succession without the officer having to reload. That means up to three suspects can be stunned, or one especially unruly suspect can be stunned more than once.
SLIDESHOW: 23 Raw Taser Cam Videos
"If they're moving around, and you don't get both probes into the person, or into the party, then they just keep doing what they're doing because it doesn't affect them," said Capt. Danny Felicia with Tavares police.
Eureka Cop With M-16 in the Center of Town Thinks He's in a Video Game
Submitted by copwatch on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 1:16pmREPORT FROM MORNING OF JAN 13, 2011
This morning, about 8:20am, I saw a Eureka cop park a police vehicle on 4th St. (Hwy 101) between N and M, across from Laudry Land. When I saw him park, I also observed another Eureka Police Department (EPD) vehicle go toward 3rd Street in the same area. The sole cop in the parked car got out, grabbed his M-16, and walked to the corner of M and 4th. There, he stood near a bush, behind the corner of a building, looking like he was hiding. The young cop and his big gun were in plain view from across the 101 (4th St) where I was- and several other people noticed him and the weapon. There were no people around or near the building corner and bush that he was hiding behind, no one coming at him from any direction, I asked him "What are you doing?" He looked at me (from across the street of course) and it seemed like he thought he was in a game of hide-n-seek. I told him "There's no one there."
Another Murder by Cops Using "less than lethal" Taser, Morning of Nov 6th
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 9:08pmLancaster County Man Dies After Police Use Taser On Him
Watch Television News VIDEO
WARNING: Some May Find Certain Images Disturbing -- Lancaster County Taser Death Scene Slideshow
State Police Investigating Death
Robert Neill Jr., 61, died after he become unresponsive after police used a Taser on him twice and sprayed him with Mace, state police said. The incident happened at about 4 a.m. Saturday at Neill's home in the 300 block of Marietta Avenue in Mount Joy [at a senior apartment complex]. Several police departments assisted, including Mount Joy Borough police, Susquehanna Regional police and state police from Ephrata.
UNARMED Man Killed by Cops with Taser, yesterday in Crescent City
Submitted by copwatch on Wed, 06/23/2010 - 2:25pmDel Norte man dies in Taser incident
The Times-Standard June 23, 2010 1:15:10 AM PDT
A Del Norte County man who assaulted two sheriff's deputies [we can always count on the Times Standard to be the immediately decided judge and jury for an execution by cop] Tuesday morning died after he was shot with a Taser and began having trouble breathing, the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office reported.
