In the early 2000s, when police began buying the stun guns in significant numbers, Taser International marketed them as a “non-lethal” or “less lethal” alternative for controlling ...

A Taser is a less-lethal, single-shot self-defence weapon used by trained police officers to temporarily incapacitate a violent or potentially violent person, who poses a danger to themselves or other ...

Jennvine Wong, a supervising attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project, described the Taser as “an escalation of the use of force.” “There’s this question about ...

The killing of Daunte Wright, a young black man, in a suburb of Minneapolis in the US, was because an officer mistook her gun for a Taser, according to police. So how is it possible to mix up the ...

Newly-released body camera footage shows the moments a Warrenton police officer uses a taser on a someone he pulled over for a traffic stop. The video shows Mark Oakley uses a taser on Dwayne ...

POLICE COMMANDED HER TO DROP THE KNIFE AND WARNED THEY WOULD USE THEIR TASER. THE COMPLAINT SAYS SHE THEN HELD THE KNIFE TO HER DAUGHTER’S NECK. AN OFFICER FIRED THEIR TASER AT GILMORE ...

An Arkansas State Police trooper shot and wounded an accused drunken driver during a speeding stop in Rogers when the suspect fought with the trooper and a bystander. An allegedly impaired driver ...

An ACT Supreme Court judge has taken a swipe at police over their use of a taser in the arrest of Nathaniel Coulter, 22, after a dramatic car chase last year. Justice Louise Taylor said he was ...

An elderly Australian woman with dementia is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being Tasered by police at a care home. Officers were called to Yallambee Lodge in Cooma, New South ...

During the hearing into PC Connor Jones’ conduct, an officer identified only as PC Drew gave evidence about the night on which it is claimed PC Jones pressed a Taser against the youngster’s neck.

A 39-year-old man died in custody Tuesday night after Galveston County deputies shocked him with a Taser while trying to take him into isolation, Sheriff Henry Trochesset said Thursday.