Craig Burdine

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Craig Burdine died after being tasered three times by police. He was unarmed during the incident. He was tasered during a struggle with deputies while in jail. He went into cardiac arrest, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. Media reports don't state categorically whether he was booked, so this incident may be outside of FatalEncounters dataset, which does not include individuals after they've been booked into the jail or prison system.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Craig Burdine, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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