Cops in small town Oxford, Ohio, home of “Izod” University, tasered a drunk 24 yr old outside of a local bar for interfering when they were trying to arrest another person. You see can they administer at least one 10 second cycle. The man stopped breathing at the scene and died after five days in critical condition.

You’ll note if you watch the video again, but look at the timer in the bottom right, the media spliced together the same footage to make it appear he was shocked three times.  Read more 

Every April 1st, ThinkGeek offers up some special products not available the rest of the year.

Among today’s one-day specials is ZapCam, the YouTube Tazer:  Read more 

I got this in an email from another Black blogger; I haven’t confirmed the victim’s race, but even so, it’s a horrible intersection of several issues we’ve been speaking of lately. And likely, one example of something that happens daily in this country. Here’s the short story:

A man died early this morning after being Tasered by Fayetteville Police Department officers.

The dead man has been indentified as Otis C. Anderson, 36, of the 2700 block of Providence Street in Fayetteville.

One police officer has been place on administrative duty pending the outcome of the investigation. The State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to investigate. Fayetteville police also are conducting an internal investigation.  Read more 

Shock of the new: Tasers being sold at Tupperware-style parties.

Check this out from Oregon:

Frank Waterhouse is suing for unlawful seizure with excessive force, alleging that police fired a Taser and bean bag rounds at him on May 27, 2006 because he was videotaping their search of a friend’s property in the 5800 block of Northeast Portland Highway.

Police officers followed a police dog onto the property during a search for a fleeing suspect. After the dog keyed on a car, officers broke out a window. Upset residents, insisting no one had run onto their property, started to videotape the police search.

When one woman was told to stop recording, she gave the videocamera to Waterhouse. He walked to the edge of the property, climbed up a dirt embankment and continued to record. At one point, he yelled to his friend, “Yes, I got it all on film. They had no right to come on this property.”

He says in the suit that police immediately came after him, and yelled at him “put it down.” Officers moved towards him, and he said, “Don’t come after me.” Waterhouse said seconds later he was shot with a bean bag gun and a Taser and fell to the ground.

Officers wrote in their reports that Waterhouse ran off, they chased and then bean-bagged and Tasered him. One officer wrote, “He had refused to drop the camera which could be used as a weapon.”

No! Put down that zuchhinni!  Read more