Georgia mandated training for police on stun gun use, but hasn't funded it

Keyana Gaines and her husband, Kenyatta Crawford, stand next to a photo of Gaines’ son, Jermaine Jones Jr., at their home in Augusta, Ga., on April 16, 2023. Jones was one of at least 30 people in Georgia who died after encounters with police that did not involve firearms from 2012 through 2021. Arcs of electricity flow as an Axon TASER 7, with a red inert training cartridge, is fired during a demonstration, on Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Washington.

Jones was one of at least 30 people in Georgia who died during encounters with police that did not involve firearms from 2012 through 2021. In 20 of those cases, officers used stun guns. In nine of those 20 encounters, men were both shocked with the stun gun’s sharp projectile prongs, which temporarily incapacitate a person, and “drive-stunned” when the weapon was triggered against their skin or clothing to elicit compliance through pain.

In 2013, a Richmond County deputy fired a Taser to try to stop George Harvey from walking toward a busy highway. During a struggle that followed, the deputy said he shocked Harvey again multiple times in the back. A Taser log shows he fired five times for 29 seconds in all. Richmond County training staff said their aim is to equip officers with options to choose from in complex and rapidly changing situations. Patrick Clayton, former chief deputy in the sheriff’s office, said stun guns give officers an alternative to going “hands on” with people who resist arrest. “What we found is that it reduces injuries to the defendants and it reduces the injuries to the officers as well,” Clayton said.

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