CBS News reported on taser-related deaths in late 2004.
A year earlier tasers had been connected to 40 deaths. By the date of the report (Oct. 12, 2004) the total had reached 70.
In August, 2004, there were 10 reports of deaths in cases involving the use of tasers.
The article describes several fatal incidents of taser usages. Most disturbing were these two:
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In Glendale, Colo., Glen Leyba was on his apartment floor, thrashing violently. A police officer, hoping to control him, stunned him three times, before he died. While the coroner blamed a drug overdose, the family blames multiple, unnecessary electric shocks, Andrews reports.
Shelly Leyba, Glen's sister, says, "Glen was in a medical emergency, down on the ground, no threat."
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On Long Island, David Glowczenski was suffering a mental breakdown, so his family called police for help.
His sister, Jean Griffin, says, "We called them for safety because he was disoriented. …And an hour later he was dead."
Glowzenski died after a confrontation in which an officer stunned him nine times with a TASER, and he wasn't on drugs or alcohol, Andrews notes. "He committed no crime; he didn't do anything wrong," Griffin says.
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CBS News:
TASER Danger?
08-26-2008, 02:05 PM
CBS News Report on Taser-Related Deaths
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