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Officers say they feared for their safety while arresting Dale Burns, 27, who died two hours later after suffering a heart attack

A police Taser was used four times on Dale Burns in his apartment, where he was said to be resisting arrest. Photograph: Scott Heppell/PA

- Man Tasered by police four times in under a minute before death (Guardian, Jan 21, 2013):

A bodybuilder was Tasered four times in less than a minute by police as they struggled to arrest him, an inquest has heard.

Dale Burns, 27, from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, died hours after being repeatedly hit “without warning” by the electric shock gun and pepper-sprayed in the face, as officers tried to hold him with handcuffs and leg restraints, the hearing was told.

Burns, a father of two, was described as a “gentle giant but with a drug habit” who had taken a “gram of Madcat”, an illegal drug, on the day he died, the inquest at the County Hall in Kendal heard.

Alan Sharp, the deputy coroner for south and east Cumbria, told the jury of five women and six men they may have to see distressing CCTV footage of a wild-eyed and agitated Burns in the police van after his arrest for criminal damage.

Burns died at Furness General hospital two hours after police were first called to his flat on 16 August 2011.

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Tags: Crime, Police, Society, Taser, U.K.

- ‘Speeding’ driver dies three months after being chased and Tasered by police (Daily Mail, Jan 20, 2013):

• Martin Baskeyfield, 44, was rushed to hospital three days after his arrest
• Police chased him for allegedly speeding and driving without insurance or a licence
• He was Tasered with a 50,000-volt gun and died more than three months afterwards

A motorist who was Tasered and then allegedly beaten and injured by police officers during his arrest has died more than three months after the incident.
Martin Baskeyfield, 44, was rushed to hospital three days after his arrest in September, and remained there until last Monday, when he died.

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- Woman Tasered after trying to buy too many iPhones (CNET, Dec 12, 2012):

A woman trying to buy too many iPhones at a New Hampshire Apple store and ends up being Tasered by police outside the store.Normally, when you hear screams outside an Apple store, it’s because, oh, the doors have opened and there’s a new gizmo for the insatiable.

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Tags: Global News, Government, iPhone, Police, Police State, Politics, Society, Taser, U.S.

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See also:

- Woman Suffers Heart Attack After Tasered By Police – Tasers Have Killed At Least 500 Americans

- New Mexico Policeman Tasered A 10-Year-Old Child On A Playground Because The Boy Refused To Clean His Patrol Car

- Police Officer Tasers 12-Year-Old Inside Victoria’s Secret (Video)

- Cop Tasers 14 Year-Old Schoolgirl (Video)

- Cop Tasers Waiter For FUN!
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Tags: Global News, Government, Health, Police, Police State, Politics, Science, Society, Taser, Technology, U.S.

- Woman suffers heart attack after Tasered by police (PressTV, Nov 22, 2012)

- Tasers have killed at least 500 Americans (RT, Feb 16, 2012):

The Taser, the non-lethal law enforcement weapon that is meant to incapacitate criminals without causing great harm, has killed at least 500 people last decade. The real number of casualties might be even higher. Continue reading »

Tags: Government, Police, Police State, Politics, Society, Taser, Technology, U.S.

- Cop Tasers Little Boy (Courthouse News Service, Oct 30, 2012):

SANTA FE, N.M. (CN) – A New Mexico policeman Tasered a 10-year-old child on a playground because the boy refused to clean his patrol car, the boy claims in court.

Guardian ad litem Rachel Higgins sued the New Mexico Department of Public Safety and Motor Transportation Police Officer Chris Webb on behalf of the child, in Santa Fe County Court.

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Tags: Children, Crime, Global News, Government, Police, Police State, Society, Taser, U.S.

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‘The police spokesman says he believes the officer’s actions were justified, …’

- 12-year-old tased inside Victoria’s Secret (KSDK, July 27, 2012):

South St. Louis County (KSDK) - A police officer tased a 12-year-old girl inside a Victoria’s Secret Wednesday afternoon at South County Center.

Police say the officer came into the Victoria’s Secret looking for the teenager’s mom, who had warrants for her arrest. But it was the teen who got tased.

“This one goes in my chest. It was stuck in there so she had to keep on pulling trying to pull it out,” said Dejamon Baker, as she pointed to a small wound on her chest.

Baker has a matching wound on her stomach.

“I had fell on the floor and I couldn’t control myself I just kept on shaking and stuff,” said the girl.

Baker, her mother Charlene Bratton, and some other relatives were in the Victoria’s Secret.

Bratton had just tried on some shorts and was about to buy them when she says a St. Louis County officer came looking for her. Bratton had warrants, she says, for numerous unresolved traffic tickets.

“He said, put your hands behind your back. I said for what. Next thing you know he tackled me down on the ground,” said Bratton.

Baker said, “I was just crying. I guess he got mad because I was crying or something, then he just took it out and just tased me.”

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Weapon of choice: The man managed to break the wires of the Taser free using the toy lightsaber, similar to this one

- The force is strong with this one! Man, 33, fights off Taser police armed with toy LIGHTSABER (Daily Mail, Dec. 15, 2011):

• Officers abandon electroshock weapon and opt for brute force to make arrest

They might be one of the more feared tools at the disposal of the police.

However, it would seem the mighty Taser was no match for a humble plastic lightsaber after a man managed to fend off officers as they tried to arrest him inside a toy store.

Police in Portland, Oregon, were on the receiving end of ‘The Force’ when they tried to take down a suspect with the electroshock weapon – and he retaliated using the children’s toy with surprising success.

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- Shocking moment police officer tasers schoolgirl, 14, seconds after she puts her hands up (Daily Mail, Dec. 15, 2011):

• Lawsuit says student did nothing to warrant being tasered
• Police claim she was cursing, inciting a crowd, resisting arrest and elbowed officer in chin
• 100 seconds of video showing what preempted attack missing

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- Cop Tasers a waiter for fun (RT, August 22, 2011):

A former police officer from Gwinnett County, Georgia will serve a year of probation after pleading no contest to firing his Taser at a Waffle House waiter in 2009 — for fun.

Daniel Wilson, an employee of the late-night greasy spoon, said then-Officer Gary Miles was hanging around at around 2:30 in the morning during a graveyard shift back in February 2009. Wilson says Miles was a regular and in the past had intimidated and taunted him while both were on the clock — even though employees often fed the officers for free. This time, however, Wilson says the cop went over the line.

While the waiter was conversing with other officers enjoying a meal, Miles snuck up behind him, brought the Taser up to his back and fired-away for a full second. The Gwinnett County News reported at the time that after Wilson sought an apology, Miles responded, “Who says I did it by accident?”

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