Graham Edward Dyer

Less-than-lethal force

Police responding to a disturbance at a middle school encountered student Graham Edward Dyer behaving erratically after he allegedly consumed LSD. The officer arrested Dyer and placed him in the back of the police car. On the way to the jail, Dyer began banging his head on the inside of the car. The officers stopped and one officer used a taser in the drive stun mode to shock Dyer in the testicles. By the time they got to the station, Dyer had hit his head more than 50 times. While lying handcuffed and shackled on the sally-port floor, Dyer continued to bang his head. Dyer was booked into the jail and was found unresponsive in his cell several hours later. The cause of death was self-inflicted blunt force trauma.