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The BBC is reporting a 15-year-old youth has become the first person in Gwynedd to be tasered

A youth court in Dolgellau was told police were left with no alternative as the youth smashed furniture at his Blaenau Ffestiniog home.

It appears that TASER International, the company who make the TASER weapons being used by UK Firearms police, and currently being trialled by non-firearms police in ten forces across the UK don’t like the phrase “TASER Death” being used and are making legal threats against those using it.

One usage they object to was in an article about the death of Mr Dziekanski in Vancouver airport after being zapped with a TASER by police.

TASER International publish guidance for the use of the word Taser, as their trademark TASER

The Guardian on the 18th of December 2007 reported the TASERing which had occurred in October 2007.

This TASERing was apparently by firearms police.

“Armed police jumped out and opened my car door,” he said. “I said OK, I’m coming. I asked what was going on and as soon as I stepped out of the car I felt something touch me on the back of the head and then I was on my knees. Then it happened again and I was on my face and I felt somebody pressing my head down with their foot. By the fifth time I realised officers were pinning my arms together. It was like they were trying to break my arms and I was in pain, screaming out.

“I was shocked eight times altogether and I had urinated on the floor. It was like being tortured. It went on and on and I felt they were going to kill me.”