The improper use of Tasers has contributed to the deaths of 11 people in North Carolina over the past four years, in part because many law enforcement agencies lack clear policies about when and how they should be used, an advocacy group said Thursday.
The Taser Safety Project released a study it began in June on the use of Tasers by sheriff's departments in the state. The project is a coalition of the N.C. chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Arc of North Carolina, the NAACP, the Mental Health Association of North Carolina and others.
The groups aim to curb cases like that of Darryl Wayne Turner, the 17-year-old Charlotte youth who died March 20 after a police officer shocked him with a stun gun. He was the first Taser-related fatality in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's history and the youngest in the Carolinas this decade.
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