Man dies after Police use Taser during arrest
A man in his 20s has died in Cumbria after being shot with a Taser by police during his arrest.
Police were called to Hartington Street in Barrow at 6.30pm on Tuesday following reports of a man causing a disturbance.
A Taser was used during the arrest and the man later complained of feeling unwell. He was taken to hospital, where he died.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has been called in.
The man has not been formally identified but was named locally as Dale Burns.
A friend, who did not want to be identified, said: "Dale worked the doors around here at different pubs. He had a girlfriend and two young kids, aged four and two and a half.
"I went to the hospital last night and his mum Donna was there. She didn't know why he had been Tasered or what had happened.
"Apparently he had been Tasered three times.
"Dale was a really good lad, we went to the gym together, he'd been going since he was 15."
A Cumbria police spokesman said: "Neighbourhood police officers attended the scene and arrested a male on suspicion of causing criminal damage and, during the arrest, a Taser was deployed.
The last person in Britain to die after being Tasered was Brian Loan, 47, from Sacriston, County Durham, in October 2006. An inquest into his death ruled he had died of heart problems.
But his sister, Barbara Hodgson, said the father-of-seven was in good health, ate well, took regular exercise and had never complained of chest pains.
She said his death was the result of police action and the use of the controversial Taser gun, which discharges up to 50,000 volts and has been used repeatedly in the north-east. Loan died after a two and a half hour siege at his home.
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Why am I not going to be surprised when the IPCC release a statement about this? Expect this news article to be buried and hidden by tomorrow.
Police were called to Hartington Street in Barrow at 6.30pm on Tuesday following reports of a man causing a disturbance.
A Taser was used during the arrest and the man later complained of feeling unwell. He was taken to hospital, where he died.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has been called in.
The man has not been formally identified but was named locally as Dale Burns.
A friend, who did not want to be identified, said: "Dale worked the doors around here at different pubs. He had a girlfriend and two young kids, aged four and two and a half.
"I went to the hospital last night and his mum Donna was there. She didn't know why he had been Tasered or what had happened.
"Apparently he had been Tasered three times.
"Dale was a really good lad, we went to the gym together, he'd been going since he was 15."
A Cumbria police spokesman said: "Neighbourhood police officers attended the scene and arrested a male on suspicion of causing criminal damage and, during the arrest, a Taser was deployed.
The last person in Britain to die after being Tasered was Brian Loan, 47, from Sacriston, County Durham, in October 2006. An inquest into his death ruled he had died of heart problems.
But his sister, Barbara Hodgson, said the father-of-seven was in good health, ate well, took regular exercise and had never complained of chest pains.
She said his death was the result of police action and the use of the controversial Taser gun, which discharges up to 50,000 volts and has been used repeatedly in the north-east. Loan died after a two and a half hour siege at his home.
"Source"
Why am I not going to be surprised when the IPCC release a statement about this? Expect this news article to be buried and hidden by tomorrow.