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Taser settlement a first for San Jose

By Richard Binder

pspan id=mn_Globalspan id=mn_ArticleSan Jose officials Tuesday agreed to pay $70,000 to the wife and child of a man who died in 2005 after police jolted him with Tasers, marking the city#39;s first settlement over a fatality linked to the stun guns. /span/spanThe death of Jose Angel Rios, 38, also marked the first time the Santa Clara County coroner listed the police weapons as contributing factors in an in-custody death./ppspan id=mn_Globalspan id=mn_ArticleFive people have died in the city after being shocked by police Tasers since San Jose issued the electrical weapons to all officers in 2004. Two other lawsuits over deaths that followed police Taser shocks are pending, while another was thrown out of court. br /br //span/spanspan id=mn_Globalspan id=mn_Articlequot;We#39;re seeing more fatalities following their use, and it raises questions about whether they are as safe as the manufacturer claims,quot; said Peter Bibring, staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Southern California.br /br /Read a href=http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11249452these/a a href=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/17/BAUU14PS3E.DTLamp;tsp=1stories./abr //span/span/p

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).