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Taser electronic weapons

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

  • Members and supporters of the United Families and Friends Campaign march in London in 2016

    Families urge ban on English police Taser use against people in distress

June 2021

  • Greater Manchester police HQ

    NHS worker shot with stun gun in front of son to sue police after IOPC verdict

  • A Greater Manchester police badge on a helmet

    Police inquiry finds officers who shot man with stun gun acted lawfully

April 2021

  • Daunte Wright’s aunt Nyesha Wright holds up two printed images depicting a Taser and a gun while discussing her nephew’s death.

    Daunte Wright case: why Tasers have failed to stop police killings

    Experts argue that Tasers ‘expand the repertoire of violence’ and can have deadly consequences

September 2020

  • The number of police officers who were assaulted rose in the year to March 2019.

    Two out of five police officers assaulted on duty in year to March 2019

    Police chiefs to introduce new safety measures but warn against increasing Taser use

August 2020

  • A British police officer holding a axon taser X2 conducted electrical weapon or stun gun.

    BAME children three times more likely to have a Taser weapon used on them by police

    Exclusive: Figures show UK forces drawing or discharging stun guns disproportionately on non-whites

June 2020

  • Protesters in London on 20 June call for the end of the use of police Tasers and stop and search.

    Man paralysed after being shot by police with Taser weapon vows to get justice

    Jordan Walker-Brown, from London, says officers stopped him because he is black
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