Ronald Alan Hasse

Less-than-lethal force

Ronald Alan Hasse died after an officer shocked him with a Taser for 57 seconds straight. According to police, Hasse refused to leave the hallway on the 26th floor of a Lakeview apartment building. Police said the officer Tasered Hasse as he allegedly tried to kick and bite officers. Deputy Medical Examiner Scott Denton said the primary cause of Hasse's death was electrocution from the Taser, with methamphetamine intoxication as a contributing factor. Denton was the first US coroner to determine that a Taser was the primary cause of someone's death. Taser International reportedly strongly disputed the findings. Chicago police scaled back a planned expansion of Taser use after Hasse's death.