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Lindemann said at one point the 15-year-old tried to use a stun gun on Anwar, although it was unclear if she succeeded.

From her mother’s front porch, she could hear the explosions of stun grenades and the cries of demonstrators crowded around the police station.

The Bristol County Sheriff’s Office came under state and federal investigation a year ago when staff members deployed pepper balls, a stun grenade and canines against immigrant detainees amid a dispute over coronavirus testing.

He was pulled into the crowd, beaten with poles, hit multiple times on the neck with a stun gun, rendered unconscious and suffered a mild heart attack.

The spokesman said one Park Police officer used a stun gun on the man.

The authorities were trying to arrest another man suspected of throwing a stun grenade when Hamdan attacked.

Even show ponies are not exempt from ending up in a narrowing chute that feeds the condemned in single file into the “stun box.”

Last month he stepped on a police stun grenade as it blew up, shredding his clothes and fracturing ribs.

Stun grenades exploded on the edges making a sound like a building being detonated.

Riot police used stun grenades and batons to violently beat them back.

He tole me I was to have all the money Miss Dory had been layin' up, an' he would send me mo' for the stun.

There had come to him an introductory statement; it was a smashing thing—a thing that would arrest and stun!

It was impossible to align the sights of his stun gun with any of those flitting shadows, Raf discovered.

Once more the party was alert, ready for trouble, and taking his cue from them, he kept his stun gun in his hand.

The stun ray, which had acted upon living creatures, could not govern the delicate mechanism in the hound's interior.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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