http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/apr/13/police-taser-inquiry-epilepsy-seizure
Greater Manchester police is being investigated after its officers fired a Taser gun at a man who became aggressive while having an epileptic seizure.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said today it was studying claims the officer used excessive and unnecessary force in firing the stun gun at the 40-year-old man, who has not been named.
A Taser is a handheld device that issues a 50,000-volt shock, temporarily incapacitating a person by interfering with muscle control. The officers had been called to assist paramedics who were struggling with the man who had collapsed in a gym in Manchester in November last year.
The man reportedly bit ambulance staff and punched emergency service paramedics after he fell ill at the Powerleague gym in Whalley Range, south Manchester.
