sadistic ASU cops will not longer be allowed to taser people for being "rowdy" people. the new police will not allow the sadistic cops to tazer people unless they are a "physical threat" to the piggy. but i suspect most piggy will take that to mean the suspect is breathing. Original Article ASU tightens guidelines for Taser use Report: Stuns justified at Fiesta game Katie Nelson The Arizona Republic Sept. 23, 2005 12:00 AM Arizona State University is changing the way it uses Tasers to subdue rowdy football fans, almost a year after about two dozen were shocked with the stun guns following January's Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. The ASU Department of Public Safety says it did nothing wrong when officers jolted University of Utah fans with Tasers to keep them from rushing the field. "It was justified 100 percent," said Cmdr. Allen Clark, who was on the field when the melee happened. "It saved people from getting hurt. I felt the Taser was used in a very appropriate manner." "We had a jovial crowd that was not listening to instructions," Clark added. "And once the Tasers were deployed they were for the most part still jovial but complying with our orders." Glendale police were asked to review the incident because the department was not involved that night. The department's report, released Thursday, said Taser use was justified. But the university is revising its Taser policy in the coming months and will tighten up guidelines on when the devices can be used by the about 55 ASU DPS officers and sergeants who carry them. Officials said the revised policy would require a physical threat, rather than just fans not complying with police commands, for the Tasers to be used. There have been 144 cases in the United States and Canada of death following a police Taser strike since September 1999, according to Republic research. In 25 cases, coroners and other officials reported the stun gun was not a factor. In 18 cases, medical examiners said Tasers were a cause, a contributing factor or could not be ruled out in someone's death. And last month police in five states sued Scottsdale-based Taser International, for injuries they say they suffered after being shocked by a stun gun. But Taser International refutes those findings, and Thursday announced preliminary results of a Taser-sponsored study indicating people can breathe during a 15-second exposure to their most recent Taser model. The move at Sun Devil Stadium will restrict Taser use to what's in line with security measures at other sports venues including the University of Arizona in Tucson, Bank One Ballpark and America West Arena. There, too, police are armed with the "less lethal" weapons. UA police permit Taser use if someone is physically resisting police, although they've never actually used them during crowd control at a sporting event, including Arizona's upset win last football season against Arizona State when fans flooded the field. UA police have shocked two people in the first year they've used the devices on campus, said Sgt. Gene Mejia, police spokesman. Phoenix police, who are the only armed security officials on hand among other security at the downtown Phoenix ballpark and basketball arena, also must meet the same criteria of a physical threat. Police departments that seek national accreditation are required to review their policies on Taser use every year. The Mesa Police Department revised its policy in March, less than a week after the city paid $2.2 million in a civil lawsuit to a man who was stunned with a Taser while in a tree. His 10-foot fall caused him to become a quadriplegic. Despite some recent national concerns about Tasers, ASU stands behind its actions following the Fiesta Bowl. The Glendale police review describes the chaos after the game's clock ran out. " . . . It appeared that everything was out of control," the report stated, describing the standoff that pitted between up to a dozen armed uniformed officers and at least twice that many unarmed security workers against as many as 250 Utah fans. As people flowed out of the stands and flooded the northeast corner of the stadium, fans started jumping the metal fencing at the beckoning of Utah football players and coaches. ASU DPS Officer Michael Sloboda said he chased a student across the field and tackled him into custody, the report said, and then pulled three students trapped under a toppled fence. Officer Juan Escudero said he saw an unarmed security worker pick up and throw a fan back over the fence the fan had just clamored over, and a plainclothes FBI agent kicked a student standing beyond the field lines. Officers yelled at the fans to stop pushing against the fence surrounding the field, according to the report, and when the fans didn't comply officers used their yellow Tasers in "drive stun" mode. They touched people directly with the Taser, sending a shock into people's arms and fingers through the fencing. The report notes at least seven instances of Taser use. "It really freaked people out," John Butters, a Utah fan who was in the middle of the confused crowd, said to The Republic Thursday. He wasn't shocked with a Taser like two of his friends were, but he was one of four people arrested during the game's aftermath. Butters, 29, had come from his home in Salt Lake City to watch his alma mater and went home with a felony charge of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. He was in Phoenix on Thursday for a court appearance where a judge allowed him to accept a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. "I shouldn't have been there," he said, while waiting at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport for a plane back to Utah. "I'm too old to be rushing the field."