FORT WORTH, Texas, May 25 (UPI) -- A lawsuit filed by two Fort Worth, Texas mental health workers claims they were injured when police used a stun gun on a patient they were holding.
Gerald Kern and Ricardo Banda charge they had the female patient at John Peter Smith Hospital under control when officer Brent Halford shot her with a Taser, shocking both of them, The Dallas Morning News reports.
The two workers say in the lawsuit that since the incident they have suffered seizures, memory loss and pain.
Their suit names both the city of Fort Worth and the stun gun manufacturer, Taser International, as defendants.
A spokesman for Fort Worth police says all officers who carry Tasers are required to successfully complete a training course and a review takes place every time a Taser is fired.
Taser International says the company regularly used two people to hold a subject during training with no sign of the support people being shocked.
Amnesty International says in the last six years more than 250 people have died in the United States after being shot with a Taser.
