NORMANDY MO April 26 2018 The head of school security for the Normandy School District has been put on leave after he was arrested Friday for allegedly using a stun gun on a 14-year-old student. About 11 a.m., Friday, Ralph Ruffin, a Normandy police officer who works as a school resource officer at Normandy Middle […]
DAYTON OH March 28 2018 — A woman was arrested after she was accused of becoming uncooperative on multiple occasions with officers at Dayton International Airport and those officers reported they had to use a Taser to take her into custody. Chiara Fall, 25, was taken into custody at the airport around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Fall […]
YOUNGSTOWN OH Nov 26 2017 A man appearing in municipal court Friday was arrested after he refused orders to speak to a judge, and a fracas developed in which he and a security guard were shocked with a stun weapon. John Johnson, 29, was in the courtroom of Judge Robert Milich when he refused to […]
Knoxville TN Nov 14 2017 A Knoxville Police Department officer shot a man who took control of her Taser during a fight in North Knoxville on Sunday, police said. The bullet struck the man in the arm and grazed his chest. He was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with injuries that didn’t appear […]
Ashland TN Aug 4 2017 Cheatham County, Tenn., sheriff’s deputies are at the center of a newly filed federal lawsuit that claims the officers used excessive force on an 18-year-old who was taken into custody late 2016. The lawsuit accuses deputies of using a Taser on Jordan Norris multiple times, leaving some 40 Taser burns on […]
MANITOWOC WI July 19 2017 A naked man was shot with a stun gun three times, and caught on fire during his arrest in Manitowoc Sunday. Police say they were called to the 1100 block of S. 25th Street and Hamilton Street when they encountered a 33-year-old man standing naked in the intersection, making violent comments. […]
DELTONA, Florida July 5 2017-– Volusia County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man who they say took their Taser as he was being handcuffed at a Saxon Boulevard convenience store Thursday. Sheriff Mike Chitwood, speaking at a news conference on the lawn outside the RaceTrac gas station, said the suspect has not been positively […]
GREENFIELD IN May 14 2017 — An Indianapolis man has died after he was tased Friday night by police in Greenfield, according to the Indiana State Police. Sgt. Rodney Vawter and Officer Dillon Silver with the Greenfield Police Department responded to a call at about 6:30 p.m. about an intoxicated man lying in the grass […]
Rohnert Park CA May 14 2017 A man died this Friday after an officer deployed a Taser on him as he was allegedly resisting arrest at a Rohnert Park hotel, according to the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety. The incident began at 3:16 p.m., when public safety officers responded to a call from a […]