Florida cop suspended for pointing taser at child's head
A police officer in Boca Raton, Florida, was suspended for three days this week for aiming a taser at the forehead of a 16 year old boy.

A police officer in Boca Raton, Florida, was suspended for three days this week for aiming a taser at the forehead of a 16 year old boy.

A police officer in Edmonton, Alberta, was charged with assault this week for shocking a man with a taser at a traffic stop.

Students at the Newark, Ohio, high school where a student was shocked with a taser last Wednesday, have started a petition to have taser use banned in their school.

Taser International - the makers of the weapon - failed to meet a deadline of last Wednesday to file their first quarter earnings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

A ninth grade student was shocked with a taser at school by a police officer in Newark, Ohio, last Wednesday.

A Powell County, Montana, sheriff's deputy was charged last Tuesday with shocking a man in custody with a taser without cause.

A police officer in East Windsor, Connecticut, shocked a fellow officer with a taser last week.

A 63 year-old man died on Sunday after he was shocked with a taser by sheriff's deputies in Ashtabula, Ohio.

A former Kansas City, Kansas, police officer has filed a lawsuit against Taser International - the makers of the weapon - claiming that he was injured during a February 2004 training exercise.

A woman who was shocked with a taser last July by police in Redmond, Washington, filed a lawsuit against the Redmond police department last Friday.

Police in Hall County, Georgia, shocked a 17 year old high school student with a taser last Thursday.

A St. Petersburg, Florida, police officer was shocked with a taser by another officer last Wednesday as he while he was participating in a mock arrest exercise.

The Escambia County, Florida sheriff's office settled a lawsuit last week filed by a man who was shocked with a taser.

An Orange County, Florida, sheriff's deputy is accused of shocking a high school student with a taser in a dispute over a cell phone.

A wheelchair-bound woman died on Monday after police in Jacksonville, Florida, shocked her with a taser.

A Beaufort, South Carolina, police officer was hospitalized last Tuesday after another officer accidentally shocked him with a taser.

A La Porte, Texas, police officer was charged with assault last Thursday for unnecessary use of a taser.

Two Sarasota County, Florida, sheriff's deputies were shocked with a taser last Tuesday when a man they were fighting with managed to get the weapon from one of them.

Taser International - the makers of the weapon - announced on Wednesday that they have received an order from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police department worth almost 600 thousand dollars.

A man in St Louis, Missouri, died on Saturday after he was shocked with a taser by police officers.

A man died in Dublin, North Carolina, on Sunday after he was shocked with a taser by sheriff's deputies.

A man was shocked with a taser by a group of men who robbed him in Frederick, Maryland, last Tuesday.

Sheriff's deputies in Spokane County, Washington, used a taser to shock a stray cow that wandered onto a freeway last Wednesday.

A man was hospitalized on Monday after he was shocked with a taser by police officers in Santa Rosa, California.

A teenager who was shocked with a taser 16 times by Portage, Indiana, police officers filed a lawsuit last week.

A man died after being shocked with a taser by police in Clearwater, Florida, last Wednesday.

A police officer in Surprise, Arizona, was hospitalized on Sunday after he was shocked three or four times with his own taser.

A police officer in Montgomery, Alabama, shocked a 15 year-old high school student with a taser last Thursday.

The city of Washougal, Washington, settled a lawsuit last Thursday filed by a woman who was abused by a police officer with a taser.

It was reported this week that police in Wichita, Kansas, have used tasers on students in school three times in recent months.
