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Talia Sharia Barnes
United States · Aged 29 · Died 07/03/2011
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Less-than-lethal force
Talia Barnes died after being tasered by Erie police. A lawsuit filed in May 2013 alleged that police violated Barnes' constitutional rights and caused her death with a Taser, disputing the county medical examiner's report saying Barnes died of a drug overdose. According to the lawsuit, Barnes was arrested on July 1 and taken to the Erie police station. It says that at 9:45 p.m. police tasered her multiple times, and she collapsed. It says Barnes was taken to a nearby hospital at 9:55 p.m. where she remained "unresponsive" and died on July 3, 2011. The police did not inform the coroner or the medical examiner that Barnes had been shocked with a Taser at any point, and they ruled the death as resulting solely from the drugs in Barnes' system. Police said Barnes had not been tasered.
Alleged responsible partyErie Police DepartmentReported by the cited sources. “Alleged” is used pending verification.
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