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Man Falls to His Death After Being Tasered: See Video

By Ron Chapman

          On September 20, 2008, I posted an article on this site which contains a videotaped recording of a police officer repeatedly using a taser on a man who was sitting on the ground by the side of the road in Washington County, Florida.  Fortunately, that man lived.  Yesterday, however, a man was tasered by the police in Brooklyn, New York and then fell to his death.  The story--including a videotaped recording of the man being tasered and falling to his death--was reported in the New York Post as follows:            "Police fired a Taser at a naked Brooklyn man armed with only a fluorescent light tube yesterday, sending him falling to his death from a second-floor ledge after he went on a 40-minute rant...continue to full post

Full post as published by Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog on September 25, 2008 (boomark / email).