Tasered to Death by Cops, Family Says

By LIZ POTOCSNAK
Courthouse News
Nov. 06, 2010

GALLATIN, Tenn. (CN) - A mother says she saw Gallatin police officers sic a police dog on her son while he was handcuffed and then Taser him to death, because they thought he had filed a false police report. The man had called police because he thought his mother was missing.

The wife and mother of the late Jeffery Woodward say he went into cardiac arrest and died after the needless attack by police officers. The family also Taser International, claiming it misrepresents its products as non-lethal and safe.

Jeffery Woodward called police on Oct. 27, 2009, "to report a home invasion and that his mother was in danger. Jeffery Woodward was under the impression that someone had kidnapped his mother," according to the complaint in Sumner County Court.

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