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Taser electronic weapons

June 2026

  • Police use less lethal weapons

    Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about

    Launchers that shoot ‘bullet-like missiles’, chemical irritants and stinger grenades: experts say these weapons can cause serious injury or even death. But they are deployed by police against crowds with little scrutiny

March 2026

  • Less Lethal Police

    ‘Less lethal’ deaths: courts examine role of controversial police weapons before three Australians died

    Exclusive: Police forces argue bean-bag and foam baton rounds are less harmful than firearms but the projectiles have been linked to deaths around the world

January 2026

  • Roy Morton

    Met police settle out of court with man shot with stun gun in bungled raid

    Roy Morton, who is in his 80s, was stunned, restrained and arrested after officers went to wrong address in 2021

April 2025

  • View of legs and the shadow of a person standing in front of a barred window.

    Prison officers in England and Wales to use pepper spray at young offender institutions

    Move to allow use of Pava spray on children follows plans to trial Tasers in adult prisons after demands from prison officers’ union

March 2025

  • a man in a suit talks

    John Oliver recap
    John Oliver on Signal leak: ‘Deeply unserious people doing deeply stupid things’

    The Last Week Tonight host digs into Trump officials’ group chat leak and the lack of regulation of Taser stun guns

November 2024

  • police officers

    A decade before Clare Nowland, a 21-year-old was killed by NSW police Tasers. Has enough changed?

    NSW police are drawing their Tasers much more often than two years ago – and experts warn they come with risk

October 2024

  • Edwin Afriyie

    Black youth worker Tasered by City of London police wins appeal for damages

    Appeal court rules unlawful force used on Edwin Afriyie, who was standing with arms folded during road stop

December 2023

  • Police officers with Taser electrical weapons.

    Police more likely to Taser black people due to institutional racism, report finds

    Study says societal factors play more of a role than the views of individual officers

June 2023

  • Edwin Afriyie poses for a photo against a wall

    Black youth worker Tasered by police loses claim for damages

  • police officer with GMP label on his back

    Officer who Tasered vulnerable man six times in Greater Manchester sacked

May 2023

  • Limehouse Basin

    Met stands by officers after man Tasered and two dogs shot dead in London

    Footage on social media showed officers pursuing a man holding two dogs on a short lead along a canal in Limehouse

June 2022

  • Oladeji Omishore - family photo

    Watchdog to widen inquiry into death of man Tasered by Met officers

  • Chelsea Bridge in London after the incident in which police repeatedly fired a Taser at Oladeji Adeyemi Omishore.

    London man who died after being shot with Taser was holding firelighter

  • A computer-generated conceptual design of Axon’s Taser drone, with yellow scaffolding enclosing the camera and wing blades.

    Taser abandons plans to build stun gun-equipped drones for schools

  • Conceptual rendering of Axon's non-lethal Taser drone

    Stun-gun drones in schools? Not so fast, says Taser firm’s own ethics board

May 2022

  • Priti Patel

    Special constables to be given access to stun guns in new crime measures

    Volunteer officers will be allowed to use electroshock weapons, as part of flurry of crime initiatives in England and Wales

April 2022

  • Jordan Walker-Brown

    Met officer accused of paralysing black man loses bid for anonymity

  • Dorcas Lyoya: ‘They told us that in America, there’s peace, there’s safety, you’re not going to see killing any more.’

    ‘That was my beloved son’: family of Patrick Lyoya say police killed their son in an ‘execution’

March 2022

  • Jordan Walker-Brown

    Met police officer charged with GBH after man paralysed by Taser

    Jordan Walker-Brown is paralysed from the chest down after being shot in May 2020

August 2021

  • Police officer with Taser

    Black people more likely to be Tasered for longer, police watchdog finds

    Police chiefs attack report by Independent Office for Police Conduct as vague and out of date
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