1) Blind woman with cancer tasered by Ohio police
When police arrived at Denise Harris’s home looking for her son, they requested she hang up her phone, she replied “no this is my phone, in my own home.” According to Harris, who suffers from blindness and cancer the police officer then grabbed her, threw her onto her futon and began to tase her.
2) Police in Texas tase hand-cuffed man and beat him with a wooden club
After being pulled over for a traffic stop in Beaumont, Texas, Derrick Newman was tasered and beated by police officers with a wooden club. Newman claims he was complying with police and did nothing to deserve the brutal treatment.
3) Defendant tasered in courtroom
A Louisville Kentucky courtroom deputy used a taser to subdue defendant Percy Phillips after he lunged at an attorney for saying something he didn’t like.
4) Black teens tasered on “Beat Whitey Night”
Dozens of black teens were tasered at the Iowa State Fair after a string of fights on an evening the teens allegedly declared as “Beat Whitey Night.”
5) Father is tasered after attacking his alleged son’s killer
Police in Michigan were forced to taser a father bereaved from his son’s murder after he attacked his alleged son’s killer for smiling during the courtroom trial.
6) 72 Year old great-grandmother gets tased for not signing a traffic ticket
In May 2009, 72 year old great-grandmother Katheryn Winkfein was pulled over on a highway near Austin, Texas for driving 65 mph in a 45mph zone. During a struggle to get her to sign the traffic ticket the officer threatened to tase her, she told the officer “Go ahead. Tase me.” The officer proceeded to tase her.
7) University of Florida Student gets tasered for asking questions at John Kerry Forum and coins the term “Don’t tase me Bro!”
In September 2007 John Kerry addressed a Constitution Day Forum at the University of Central Florida in Gainsville. Andrew Meyer stood up and began to ask John Kerry questions after the close of the question period which subsequently led to him being forcibly removed from the forum by University police. During his struggle to be arrested and handcuffed Andew Meyer was tasered by a University police officer. Meyer coined one of the most famous quotes from the year 2007 for the line he blared at police, “Don’t tase me Bro!”
8) Man dies at airport after being tasered 5 times
Robert Dziekanski, a Polish immigrant moving to Canada to live with his mother died after being tasered 5 times by Royal Canadian Mounted Police at Vancouver International Airport. Dziekanski was tasered over a customs dispute which sparked outrage and irritation on his behalf. Dziekański was tasered a total of five times.
9) Grandfather and pregnant mom tasered at a baptism party
Edgar Rodriguez, 54 was tasered at a party in his backyard for the baptism of his grandson after police were called to the scene after receiving noise complaints. Police tasered Rodriguez 3 times while he was in the process of retrieving his identification from his pocket. Letecia Elias, 25, the pregnant mother of the baptized boys was also tastered after trying to help Rodriguez while he was tasered.
10) 21 year old saw-mill worker died after being tasered 9 times
Barron Pikes ran from police while they pursued him on a charge of cocaine possesion and was in Winnfield, Louisiana. After Pikes was hand-cuffed and on the ground he was tasered 9 times which resulted in his death.
11)Teen Phillies fan tasered for running onto the field
A 17 year old Philadelphia Phillies Fan was tasered by a Philadelphia police officer after interrupting a game to run across the field.
In 2007 a University of Florida student was tasered by campus police and yelled out “Don’t tase me bro!”, and since then the popularity of the electronic shock weapon has grown rapidly. Tasers are most commonly used to by police officers to subdue a person during arrest. However, there are many shocking taser moments that go beyond the simplicity of assisting an officer in an arrest, and in these cases have created an alarming public response. Here are theGrio’s most shocking taser moments.
