Tag: Less Lethal

NEW YORK -- The man was naked, teetering on a building ledge and jabbing at police with an 8-foot-long fluorescent light bulb as a crowd gathered below.Lt. Michael Pigott responded ...

NEW YORK -- An NYPD lieutenant who gave the order for a Taser to be used on a naked Brooklyn man who then fell to his death, said yesterday he ...

NEW YORK -- Emergency Services officers yesterday underwent training meant to reinforce the proper use of Tasers when dealing with the mentally ill and to avoid a repeat of an ...

NEW YORK -- It shouldn't have happened. The New York Police Department all but admitted yesterday that Iman Morales should not have been stunned with a Taser gun, a jolt ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- There were "eight hours of chaos and mayhem" on the streets of St. Paul during the Republican National Convention's first day, Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher ...

NEW YORK -- A naked, emotionally disturbed man died in Bedford-Stuyvesant yesterday afternoon when he fell to the ground face-first after police tried to subdue him with an electrical jolt ...

ALBUQUERQUE -- A state district court jury cleared an Albuquerque Police Department officer of excessive force in the Taser electroshock shooting in the head of a 15-year-old boy. The jury, ...

While on patrol together, two uniform officers observed a pair of adult males in their twenties. The subjects were flagging cars to the curb and engaging in quick bursts of ...

CHICAGO -- Two teenage girls have been charged with beating a female witness in the murder case of a Chicago Police officer and a social worker, authorities said Thursday. Tashianda ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The Alaska state trooper at the heart of a legislative investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power said Tuesday he has not been contacted by ...