SF News San Mateo County Agrees to $4.5 Million Settlement With Family of Man Police Fatally Tasered In 2019 County officials are calling it “the largest law enforcement-related settlement in anyone’s memory” after agreeing to pay a $4.5 million settlement for the tasering and killing of an unarmed pedestrian who’d merely been jaywalking.
SF News SFPD To Finally Get Body Cameras Via Taser Contract It's been two years since SFPD chief Greg Suhr said that the beginning of the department's body camera program was just two weeks away, as KQED reports in the 2015 explantory video above.
SF News Gascon On Mario Woods Shooting: 'This Is Not A Conversation About Tasers' As District Attorney George Gascon prepares to potentially file criminal charges against the five SFPD officers involved in the shooting of Mario Woods, he's assured protesters that the investigation into the incident will
SF News Mayor Lee Backs Tasers For SFPD, Opponents Ready For A Fight During a radio appearance this morning, Mayor Ed Lee voiced support for arming SFPD officers with Tasers, stating a position spokesperson Christine Falvey confirmed to the Examiner. Police Chief Greg Suhr has for
SF News SFPD Shooting Of Mario Woods 'Could Have Ended Differently If We Had Tasers' Says Chief San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr once called equipping his officers with Tasers a "moral obligation." That was in 2012, and at the hands of the Supervisors Public Safety Committee he was the
SF News Berkeley Police: 'We Are Not A Violent Department, OK?' Some of Berkeley's famously passive (and passive-aggressive) residents are up in arms over a proposal from the Berkeley Police Department to look into equipping their police force with Tasers. Where SFPD explored the
SF News Video: BART Cop Repeatedly Tasers Passenger On the evening of January 29th, riders on a BART train stopped at the San Bruno station watched as an officer repeatedly used a stun gun on a man. Authorities claim the suspect
SF News Videos: All The (Non-Lethal) Weapons SFPD May Want To Shoot You In The Face With San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr has been leading a recent push to equip 100 specially trained officers with less-than-lethal weapons as an alternative to, well, to shooting people with bullets, obviously. While
SF News Woman Tased In The Face In Broad Daylight On Divisadero Be vigilant, folks: A 30-year-old woman was shocked in the face with a taser multiple times on Tuesday afternoon by a mugger demanding her phone. The woman was waiting for the 24-Divisadero bus
SF News San Francisco Still Not Cool With Police Tasers SFPD Chief Greg Suhr wants to equip his department with 100 or so electric stun guns as part of a new pilot program that would specifically train officers to handle mentally ill people.
SF News Richmond City Council Picks Unfortunate Moment to Vote on More Tasers At last night's meeting of the City Council in Richmond, an ill-timed request from the police department for the purchase of 75 new Tasers led to some extended and awkward discussion. The request,
SF News Taser Use Questioned After Berkeley Fare Evader Gets Zapped SF Appeal reports that a a 35-year-old man was kissed with a BART cop's taser on June 22. On Tuesday, an officer that BART would not name said he saw 35-year-old Jason Johnson
