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 ...

“The Taser is the most complicated weapon that police have,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the nonprofit think tank Police Executive Research Forum. Police officers generally need ...

PHOENIX — Two Arizona police officers are under national scrutiny after newly released body camera footage showed them repeatedly punching and shocking a deaf Black man with a Taser nearly two ...

The incident has raised questions about the use of deadly force by police for a petty crime, but also of the usefulness of the Taser as a tool for police to control suspects following years of ...

The maker of TASER shock weapons has Boston in its sights. Later this month, Axon Enterprise plans to unveil its new office in the Back Bay that the Scottsdale, Ariz., company hopes to eventually ...

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 ...

Daunte Wright, 20, was shot after the officer meant to use a Taser, but mistakenly drew her gun instead, Chief Tim Gannon told reporters. The officer was later named as Kim Potter who has worked ...

A Liverpool-based boxer has claimed she was pursued by police before having a taser pointed in her face while riding to her mum's house in north Liverpool after training. Charlotte Powell claims ...

Jamar Powell says he struggles to have "faith in the police" following the incident A young man has told the BBC he feared for his life when a Met Police officer held a Taser to his neck during a ...

Edmonds was terminated on March 24, 2022, five months after he used his Taser to shock Jim Rogers, a homeless man, 10 times in just over three minutes and 15 seconds.

A Toronto police officer who Tasered a young Black university student and used an unapproved “knee-on-neck” restraint in what was described as a case of “mistaken identity” has been ...

Your support makes all the difference. A Metropolitan Police officer has been found to have committed gross misconduct after holding a Taser against a 16-year-old Black boy’s neck, the police ...