There has been a police shooting in Hollywood, Fla. A man was killed after an officer fired an M-26 Taser stun gun and hit the man in the chest.
The stun gun shoots probes that transmit 50,000 volts of electricity into the body for up to five seconds.
Police said the man was behaving strangely in from of a hotel. Officers shot him with the stun gun, then wrestled him to the ground and handcuffed him because he had not been subdued.
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The man, who police believe was on drugs, refused to get on his knees and put his hands behind his back when police arrived at the hotel Sunday.
When he was shot, the man ripped the darts out of his chest and went after a police officer, a police spokesman said. That's why officers wrestled him to the ground and handcuffed him
Officers quickly noticed the man was having trouble breathing and called paramedics. When rescue crews arrived, they found the suspect on the ground in handcuffs with no heartbeat. He died at a hospital.
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