A UCLA student who didn't show his ID and refused to leave the campus
library was tasered by the UCLA police Tuesday around 11.30pm,
according to the university newspaper, the Daily Bruin.More after the jump!
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"Perez argues [that] he was forced to resign ... after refusing to violate the rights of another. [He] was "punitively transferred" from a day patrol shift to a night shift because he'd refused a senior officer's...
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Yet more fuel on the fire that is the taser debate: another person died this week after being tasered by Canadian police, this time a 39-year-old Quebec man. "A 39-year-old man who was tasered by Montreal police...
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The United Nations has added a new chapter to the ongoing controversy surrounding the use of tasers as law enforcement tools. The UN Committee Against Torture said on Friday that the use of a taser can be considered...
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The RCMP commissioner admits they could have done a better job in passing along Taser report information to the press."RCMP Commissioner William Elliott admitted Tuesday that mistakes were made in...
More than 20 people in Canada have died after Taser incidents now, raising some obvious questions about the weapon's safety. At what point can the police no longer ignore such a crucial safety issue?Check out a...