Virginia Man Dies After Being Tasered Over 20 Times While In Police Custody

Police Chief James Binner stated that “The deployments of Tasers when a subject has become violent, causing damage to property and placing the safety of persons at risk, as was the case with Linwood Lambert Jr., is appropriate and necessary use of force.”

USA Today
By USA Today
Linwood Lambert, 46, was tased over 20 times in thirty minutes by police the night he died

A hearing in a wrongful death lawsuit for a man who died in police custody begins Thursday in Virginia. Linwood Lambert, 46, was tased over 20 times in thirty minutes by police the night he died, according to Joe Messa, an attorney for the Lambert family. Lambert's sister, Gwendolyn Smalls, filed the $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against

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“Grab Anybody!” St. Louis PD Indiscriminately Taser & Arrest People Walking Down Sidewalk

This small group of people were complying with the original officer’s orders, yet they were met with excessive force. There was absolutely no need for tasers to be deployed. No one was running away; no one was resisting, nor was anyone posing a threat.

Matt Agorist
By Matt Agorist

  TFTP — Friday night in St. Louis, a peaceful, silent protest was organized to raise awareness and call an end to police brutality. It was referred to on social media as #shutdownbaseball. The protest took place outside of Busch Stadium during a Cardinals game. The road was already closed off for baseball fans, and the protesters simply

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Five Texas Police Departments Ban Tasers

Some communities are sidestepping the debate on Tasers’ safety by simply banning them altogether.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

About 16,000 law enforcement agencies internationally use Tasers, but this weekend, five police departments in North Texas -- Mansfield, Richland Hills, Crowley, Murphy and Burleson -- announced they had removed Taser guns from the list of equipment used by officers. While none of the Texas-based police department have explicitly explained why

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