More Tazing, More Questions

A 20 year old man in Frederick, Maryland died after police deployed a taser and stunned him. Allegedly, he and three other suspects were fighting when police arrived on the scene, and they tasered this guy. As of publication, there is no official cause of death.

So, if you run over a cop's foot, side-swipe a taxi, and then smash into a police cruiser to avoid getting arrested for driving drunk without a license, and then resist the police? That's a tasing, as this Ottawa woman found out.

To be filed in the "WTF" category, is this case which comes to us from Jacksonville, Florida. Allegedly, police had their suspect detained in the car, after zapping him for an undisclosed number of times for an undisclosed duration, and then during the four minutes between when the EMTs left and got the "cardiac red" call from the police officers, the man died. I'll take a shot in the dark here and say that this incident is probably as fishy as it sounds.

Talk about a lousy punchline, a Bradenton, Florida man was tased and arrested for being drunk in a joke store. The real punchline is that this incident is still fishy. For instance, even though officers had restrained the suspect on the ground, they tasered him to invoke cooperation with the handcuffs.