The most recent Taser victim? A 16-year-old in Missouri who’d fallen off a bridge, breaking his back. Upon arriving to the scene, police tasered him 19 times for lack of compliance.
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Another Taser Murder
At 1:28 p.m. last Jan. 17, Baron “Scooter” Pikes was a healthy 21-year-old man. By 2:07 p.m., he was dead.
What happened in the 39 minutes in between — during which Pikes was handcuffed by local police and shocked nine times with a Taser, while reportedly pleading for mercy —is now spawning fears of a political coverup in this backwoods Louisiana lumber town infamous for backroom dealings.