COLUMBIA (AP) — A sheriff charged with ordering the stun gun shocking of an inmate at his county’s jail was trying to help his officers deal with a combative, out-of-control man who had just beat his father with a baseball ...
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Read More »RALEIGH (AP) A federal judge unsealed court documents April 23 that show a North Carolina deputy’s strategy for fighting a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of a man fatally shot on his porch in 2015. U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle ...
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Read More »ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating after a suspect, who police say was intoxicated, died at a hospital after being stunned by officers during his arrest. Anderson County Deputy Coroner Don McCown tells local ...
Read More »Sometimes it seems like everybody wants to be a cop until it’s time to do what cops do. But recently a Fayetteville police officer was stunned to find—and stunned, literally, when he or she found—that 45-year-old Valerie Hadley was ready ...
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Read More »Yates v. Terry (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-063-16, 21 pp.) (Biggs, J.) No. 15-1555, March 31, 2016; USDC at Charleston, S.C. (Houck, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A first sergeant and Iraq war veteran who allegedly was ordered out of his car ...
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Read More »Pride v. Pierce (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-009-16, 10 pp.) (Terrence Boyle, J.) 5:14-cv-00781; E.D.N.C. Holding: Although plaintiff has alleged that the defendant-deputies acted maliciously, corruptly or outside the scope of their official authority when they tased him multiple times outside ...
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has put police officers on notice when it comes to using Taser stun guns as a pain compliance tool on a resisting subject. Unless officers can demonstrate that the subject poses an “immediate ...
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Read More »Estate of Ronald H. Armstrong v. Village of Pinehurst, N.C. (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-007-16, 47 pp.) (Thacker, J.) No. 15-1191, Jan. 11 2016; USDC at Greensboro, N.C. (Eagles, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Defendant police officers who reportedly tased a schizophrenic ...
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A federal jury has awarded a $500,000 verdict to the family of a 21-year-old man who died after Charlotte-Mecklenburg police stunned him with a Taser gun. La-Reko Williams died from a contraction of the muscles in his heart after Officer ...
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Read More »A federal appeals court has tossed out a more than $6 million award to the family of a North Carolina teenager who died after being shocked with a Taser.
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