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Police sued for tasering man with hands on squad car [Video]

The Minneapolis Police Department is dealing with yet another lawsuit, this time for allegedly using a Taser on a man's neck while he is seen with his hands on the squad car and not resisting the officer. ...full story at digg

from digg on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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