PA Archive/PA Images A policeman demonstrates how a taser is used at the firearms range of Northamptonshire Police (stock image)A teenager suffered a cardiac arrest after being tasered by police in Coventry on Saturday night. West Midlands Police (WMP) said the incident happened after they were called to reports of a disturbance in Prior Deram Walk, Canley, just after 9.30pm. WMP said a 17-year-old was tasered in an “effort to detain him, but immediately required CPR as he went into cardiac arrest”. Four other teenagers, three aged 17 and a 13-year-old, were arrested for violent disorder and assaulting a police officer as a result of the incident, WMP said in a statement. Two male police officers received minor injuries which did not require hospital treatment and a police car windscreen was smashed.

Source: Huffington Post September 02, 2018 15:11 UTC