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There's anecdotal evidence of police excessive use of Tasers on students. But no one is keeping track.

Authorities say they were called to a local Taco Bell in Madison, Wisconsin, where they allegedly found Genele Laird yielding a knife.

The 2012 video released Monday evening shows police using a Taser on Philip Coleman, 38, who later died. The footage comes in the wake of protests that erupted in the city after both the Laquan McDonald and Ronald Johnson videos were released in the past month.

Video of Linwood Lambert, the man who died in police custody during a medical trip to the ER, has finally been released in an exclusive report by MSNBC.

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The family of Vachel Howard, who was killed in police custody in 2012, will receive a $3 million pay-out from the city over his death.

A police officer has been fired after footage from his body-cam video showed him releasing a Taser on an unarmed man whose hands were up

A Virginia police officer is now under review after using a Taser on a suspect who appeared to be compliant.

In a month that saw the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death and the 1965 Watts Riots, police officers in Virginia and Georgia have been charged in the…

A St. Louis, Missouri city official is calling for an investigation after local law enforcement officers used their stun guns on a group of protesters…

Yet another unarmed black man was shot and killed by police, this time in Tulsa, Oklahoma by a 73-year-old officer of the law who said…

In a ceremony described as “beautiful, [and] spirit filled,” hundreds came together on Saturday for the funeral of Walter Scott, the unarmed South Carolina man…