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The medical examiner's office said Erich Stelzer died from a combination of a heart problem, the altercation, Taser shocks and amphetamine.
It was two days after Christmas in 2018. The call seemed routine when police pulled up to the duplex in Cohasset.
Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them. But when misused, these tactics can still end in death — as happened with George Floyd in 2020. An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. Medical officials cited the force in about half the cases. In others, officers didn’t follow best safety practices, creating a recipe for death. Thes...
The 2018 attack in Cohasset, Massachusetts, is one of the most violent among the more than 1,000 deaths documented in an Associated Press investigation into common police use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without killing them.
The call seemed routine when police pulled up to the duplex in Cohasset, Massachusetts. But once inside, Detective Lt. Gregory Lennon and two other officers interrupted what one called “a