{"id":12825,"date":"2009-12-30T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptogon.com\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2009-12-30T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T16:22:19","slug":"federal-court-restricts-taser-use-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=12825","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court Restricts Taser Use by Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-taser30-2009dec30,0,3444530.story?track=rss\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>A federal appeals court this week ruled that a California police officer can be held liable for injuries suffered by an unarmed man he Tasered during a traffic stop. The decision, if allowed to stand, would set a rigorous legal precedent for when police are permitted to use the weapons and would force some law enforcement agencies throughout the state &#8212; and presumably the nation &#8212; to tighten their policies governing Taser use, experts said.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gennaco, an expert in police conduct issues who has conducted internal reviews of Taser use for the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department and other agencies, said the ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals prohibits officers from deploying Tasers in a host of scenarios and largely limits their use to situations in which a person poses an obvious danger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision talks about the need for an immediate threat. . . . Some departments allow Tasers in cases of passive resistance, such as protesters who won&#8217;t move,&#8221; he said. Tasering for &#8220;passive resistance is out the door now with this decision. Even resistance by tensing or bracing may not qualify.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Los Angeles Times: A federal appeals court this week ruled that a California police officer can be held liable for injuries suffered by an unarmed man he Tasered during a traffic stop. The decision, if allowed to stand, would set a rigorous legal precedent for when police are permitted to use the weapons and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}