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Monday, February 20, 2012

500 U.S. Deaths From Police Tasers; Amnesty Calls For Strict Guidelines

On February 13, Johnnie Kamahi Warren died after a police officer used a Taser on him at least twice outside an Alabama bar. The police had been called when Warren became disorderly and combative at the bar.

Warren's death raises the Taser-related death toll in the U.S. to at least 500.

Warren was unarmed. And that is not uncommon. In fact, a 2008 report by Amnesty International (AI) examined data on hundreds of deaths related to police Taser use and found that an alarming number of those who died were unarmed.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

guidelines? we don need no stinkin guidelines!

Anonymous said...

Please mr cop use a taser on me because after im free again youll get worse i will find you and shove it up your behind while beating you to death