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Clay County Woman Dies After Being Shocked By Taser Gun

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. -- A 56-year-old woman died after being shocked by a Taser gun during a confrontation with Green Cove Springs police Monday afternoon.

Officers said they were called to a disturbance at a home in the 400 block of Harrison Street just before 5 p.m., finding Emily Delafield in a wheelchair, armed with two knives and a hammer. Police said she was swinging the weapons at family members and police.

Delafield's family members told Channel 4 the woman did not take her medication on Monday, and that may have been why she picked up the weapons.


http://www.news4jax.com/news/8980210/detail.html

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Man stunned by Vista deputies' Taser dies at hospital

By: YVETTE URREA

VISTA -- The family of Martin Mendoza, an Oceanside man critically injured Sunday when Vista deputies twice used a stun gun during a struggle, turned the life support machines off Wednesday night after doctors told them he showed no brain activity.

"Basically, he's brain dead," said his daughter Jasmine Martinez, as she wiped away tears in the hours before the family turned off the machine. "He had a lot of bleeding to the head."

She said doctors told her they didn't know if the bleeding occurred as a result of Mendoza striking his head on the pavement or from the stun gun. Martinez said doctors told her an autopsy will determine how he died.


San Diego County medical examiner's Investigator James Buckley said Mendoza died at 8 p.m. Wednesday, and that the department had an investigator at the hospital with sheriff's investigators.

Mendoza, 43, worked as a tile-setter. He was a longtime Oceanside resident and was engaged to be married. His mother and siblings live in Chicago, where he grew up, said Martinez, 25, who lives in Texas.

Martinez said the information she has gathered about her father's death came from the hospital nurse, two friends that her father was out with before the confrontation with deputies, and news reports.


http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/02/22/news/top_stories/1_02_252_21_07.txt

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Man shot with Taser dies of head injuries

BY SHARON McBRAYER Monday, October 15, 2007


MORGANTON - Four officers are on administrative duty for Tasering a man who suffered head injuries and later died.
Donald Grant Clarke, 49, of 104 Logan St., died Sunday morning.

Officers with the Morganton Department of Public Safety shot him with a Taser on Saturday night, said Public Safety Maj. Billy Bradshaw. After he was hit, Clarke fell and struck his head, Bradshaw said.

The SBI is investigating.


http://www.morganton.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MNH/MGArticle/MNH_BasicArticle&path=!frontpage&cid=1173353127292&c=MGArticle

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Man stunned by police taser dies

2007-10-18 07:59:40

A Montreal man has died after being taser shocked by Montreal policeThe
incident stems from a traffic stop by officers who noticed a man driving
erratically Sunday night in St. Michel. Police believed 39-year old Quilem
Registre was intoxicated and said he became aggressive when
questioned. Officers are defending their actions saying the Taser is only
used when a suspect is violent or insensitive to pain. Pepper spray is
ineffective on people who are intoxicated. The Surete du Quebec is
heading up the investigation.


http://www.940montreal.com/local.php?news=17141

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Man Shocked with Denver Officer's Taser Dies

July 16th, 2007 11:30 AM EDT

DENVER -- A man died after being shocked by a Denver police officer's
Taser gun early Monday morning.

Police were called to Yale Avenue and Fenton Street at about 3:15 a.m.
on reports of a disturbance. When officers arrived, they found a man out
of control, flailing around and hitting cars, said Denver police spokesman
Sonny Jackson.

The man refused police orders to stay still and calm down, and at one
point charged at officers, so a police officer shocked him to subdue him,
Jackson said.

Paramedics were called and the man was taken to Denver Health, where
he was pronounced dead.

Police are still at the scene investigating.

The man's identity has not been released.


http://www.officer.com/web/online/Special-Coverage--Stun-Guns/Man-Shocked-with-Denver-Officers-Taser-Dies/11$36884

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Dog stunned by Taser dies during police raid

AP Thursday, August 30, 2007

WARREN � Defending their use of a Taser stun gun on a pit bull that later
died, Vermont State Police said Wednesday they were trying to save it,
not kill it.

�Under the circumstances, there was a threat of serious bodily injury or
death to the troopers, said Sgt. John Flannigan, a spokesman.

The incident occurred Aug. 9, after Lindsay Stafford, 29, was involved in a
traffic accident at which police said they saw evidence of drug use. After
learning that both Stafford and her husband, Thomas Stafford, had
outstanding warrants, police obtained a search warrant for the couple�s
home, where they seized 91 marijuana plants and cited the couple.

Thomas Stafford said he told police how to get around his dog, a 7-year-
old pit bull named Maxamus, which he said was inside the house before
he left for work that day; police said he told them he didn�t know how the
dog would react to them.

The dog, which was raised on a horse farm, lived with cats and was
friendly with people, according to Thomas Stafford.

�They talked to me beforehand and I told them what to do to get into the
house,� said Thomas Stafford. �Then they left (the dog) for dead on my
porch.�

Flannigan said the dog, which was unrestrained, aggressively bared its
teeth, barked and growled. Police would have been justified in shooting
the dog, but opted to use a Taser instead, in hopes of saving it.

�While others attempted to secure the dog, the dog was snapping its teeth
at two troopers, who were attempting to secure it. The dog was tased
multiple times because after each shock it would quickly recover and
continue its aggression. This pattern required the troopers to physically
restrain during the last tase,� Flannigan said.

He called the dog�s death unfortunate.

Lt. Paul White of the Vermont State Police said no necropsy was
performed on the dog, so police don�t know if the Taser was the cause of
death.

Vermont police agencies have been under increased scrutiny about their
use of Tasers in the wake of a series of incidents, two of which involved
psychiatric patients.


http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070830/NEWS/70830004/0/NEWS05

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Man Shot With Taser By Police Dies

6:40 pm CDT October 2, 2007

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- An investigation is under way after a man died in police custody on Monday.

Family members said that Keith L. White, 44, was a drug user and was spotted by police Monday night as he went behind a church near North 57th Terrace and Nogard Avenue to get high.

"I lost my heart and soul. If I would've let him smoke crack in my house, he would still be alive, and I blame myself," said Leyva White, Keith White's mother.

When police tried to arrest him, White ran into a nearby creek and started fighting with officers, according to authorities.

"My baby was a drug user. He did not carry weapons or anything like that," said White's mother.

During the struggle, White was shot twice with a Taser gun.

"They don't know if they are mentally ill or the things they go through. Evidently, if you see him running around in his shorts smoking dope behind a church, something is wrong with him, even if they do buck up. They should use something different than those Tasers. Tasers kill," said the man's mother.

White started complaining of chest pains and was rushed to the hospital, where he died.


http://www.kctv5.com/news/14250011/detail.html

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This is a follow up to the OP.

Family To Sue Over Death Of Woman Shocked With Taser

10:59 am EDT September 19, 2007

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. -- A Clay County woman's family said it is seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police.

The family of 56-year-old Emily Delafield said it would take the Green Cove Springs Police Department to court.

In April 2006, officers with the police department said they were called to a disturbance at a home in the 400 block of Harrison Street just before 5 p.m.

In a 911 call made to the Green Cove Springs, Delafield can be heard telling a dispatcher that she believed she was in danger:

Dispatcher: And what's the problem?

Delafield: My sister is waiting on my property.

Dispatcher: Your what?

Delafield: My sister (inaudible) is on my property trying to harm me.

Officers said they arrived to find Delafield in a wheelchair, armed with two knives and a hammer. Police said the woman was swinging the weapons at family members and police.

Within an hour of her call to 911, Delafield, a wheelchair-bound woman documented to have mental illness, was dead.

Family attorney Rick Alexander said Delafield's death could have been prevented and that there are four things that jump out at him about the case.

"One, she's in a wheelchair. Two, she's schizophrenic. Three, they're using a Taser on a person that's in a wheelchair, and then four is that they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutes," Alexander said.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/14144292/detail.html

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Petaluma man stunned by Taser dies days later

Marisa Lagos, Wednesday, April 25, 2007

SANTA ROSA -- A Petaluma man died Tuesday, two days after he was shocked with a Taser stun gun by Petaluma police during a confrontation with officers who were attempting to contact him after an alleged domestic violence incident.

Walter Heller, 55, died at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Tuesday afternoon, Santa Rosa Police Capt. James Mitchel said. Heller suffered a brain injury when he fell to the ground after being shocked, Mitchel said.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/25/BAGMHPF5E811.DTL

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Man whom police shocked with Taser dies 3 days later

By and Patrick Bell, Thursday, May 17, 2007

A Valleyview man died yesterday, three days after he was shocked with a
Taser and hit with pepper spray during an altercation with police.

Patrick D. Hagans, 42, died at Mount Carmel West hospital, said Steve
Martin, Franklin County chief deputy sheriff.

Yesterday in Franklin County Municipal Court, Valleyview police had
charged Hagans, who owned a local entertainment gift-certificate
business, with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

He was accused of kicking, scratching, biting and pushing officers who
tried to arrest him on charges of disorderly conduct at his home at 2623
Elliott Ave. at 5:47 a.m. Sunday.

Neighbors called 911 when they heard yelling and glass breaking inside
the house as Hagan and his girlfriend fought, Martin said.

Hagans was "making pounding noises, screaming words that made no
sense," and "jumping on cars," Valleyview Police Officer Nelson Frantz
stated in a court complaint. Hagans also tried to get into a police cruiser
and refused to comply with officers, Frantz said.

Franklin Township police arrived to assist Valleyview officers. A deputy
sheriff, whom Martin declined to identify last night, was last to arrive on
the scene.

A woman who identified herself only as Hagan's girlfriend told WBNS-TV
(Channel 10) that he was struck four times with the Taser.
Authorities refused to release the number of times the Taser was used,
saying that the incident is under investigation.


http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007/05/17/VIEWTAZE.ART_ART_05-17-07_B1_FA6O8UT.html

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Police these days are scum. Iced-T was right. Tasers kill. They are using tasers on people in wheelchairs. They are killing people and getting away with it. And where is the punishment? There never is one when a cop kills.

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"Department of Homeland Security law enforcement divisions announced that they were not purchasing Tasers because of safety concerns. �Th ere are enough question marks about the safety of this device. The safety of
our officers and the public is always a concern. It was determined that the device just didn�t fit,� said Barry Morrissey, spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection."

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cra/docs/CRA_TaserAppendixB.pdf

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"International Association of Chiefs of Police (�IACP�) issued a report recommending that local law enforcement reassess its Taser training and established policies. The IACP particularly noted the lack of safety studies, concluding that �independent data does not yet exist concerning in-custody deaths, the safety of EMDT [Electro-Muscular Disruption Technology] when applied to drug or alcohol-compromised individuals, or other critical issues.�"


http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cra/docs/CRA_TaserAppendixB.pdf
(Same report from previous post)

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The taser should be banned world wide.

Is it to much to ask for Legislation, Policies and Training.