stun gun
noun
: a weapon designed to stun or immobilize (as by electric shock) rather than kill or injure the one affected
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In Atlanta, officers arrested more than 25 people and used non-lethal ammunition to disperse a crowd of protesters at Emory University, where one person was shocked with a stun gun after being taken to the ground by police.
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
The Emory Wheel also reported that irritant gas was used on protesters and at least one protester was hit with a stun gun.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2024
David had reportedly used a stun gun to subdue his wife before shooting her at point-blank range, authorities said, according to CBS.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 23 Apr. 2024
During the physical struggle, Schurr had attempted twice to deploy his stun gun on Lyoya but missed both times.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2024
Minns ruled out allowing security guards to carry stun guns or firearms though, and gave no further details.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 15 Apr. 2024
Ex-officers each get more than a decade in federal prison
U.S. District Court Judge Tom Lee sentenced Hartfield, who used a stun gun on the men and helped discard evidence, to 10 years in prison last month.
—USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
The group then went to the home without a warrant, The Associated Press reported, and assaulted the two Black men with stun guns, forced them to ingest liquids, punched and kicked them and called them racial slurs.
—Tom Junod, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
And a Kansas City man — with his mother in tow — helped other rioters push against the police line in a tunnel entryway on the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol where a Metropolitan Police officer was dragged outside, beaten and shocked with stun guns by the mob.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024
The Emory Wheel also reported that irritant gas was used on protesters and at least one protester was hit with a stun gun.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 26 Apr. 2024
David had reportedly used a stun gun to subdue his wife before shooting her at point-blank range, authorities said, according to CBS.
—Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 23 Apr. 2024
During the physical struggle, Schurr had attempted twice to deploy his stun gun on Lyoya but missed both times.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2024
Minns ruled out allowing security guards to carry stun guns or firearms though, and gave no further details.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 15 Apr. 2024
Ex-officers each get more than a decade in federal prison
U.S. District Court Judge Tom Lee sentenced Hartfield, who used a stun gun on the men and helped discard evidence, to 10 years in prison last month.
—USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
The group then went to the home without a warrant, The Associated Press reported, and assaulted the two Black men with stun guns, forced them to ingest liquids, punched and kicked them and called them racial slurs.
—Tom Junod, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
And a Kansas City man — with his mother in tow — helped other rioters push against the police line in a tunnel entryway on the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol where a Metropolitan Police officer was dragged outside, beaten and shocked with stun guns by the mob.
—Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
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