Groups call on police to stop taser use (NY)

4/5/2005 6:02 PM
By: Sean O'Grady

Fifty-thousand volts can be an attention getter. But 15-year-old Stephen Bishop and his mother Joanne claim he didn't deserve the attention nor the bruises that he said he got from a police taser.

Joanne Bishop said, "He was bleeding from the chest. His back was all swollen from these tasers. It was horrible."

On March 11, Stephen Bishop and a friend were hanging out at Crossgates Mall in Guilderland. Police said they were loitering and asked the boys to leave.

Stephen said, "My friend reached over to get his book and the cop told him not to. But the cop grabbed his arm when he reached to go get it, and he shoved him into the table, put cuffs on him, and then proceeded to taser him in the leg." <snip>

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