Reuters also interviewed 63 current and former Axon employees, including nine former executives.
No one with whom Reuters spoke was aware of deaths or lawsuits stemming from tasings of Axon staff.
Axon has faced fewer lawsuits since 2009, the year it introduced a new Taser model with a lower charge.
Screenshots from an Axon promotional video show CEO Rick Smith taking a Taser hit in 1993, the year he co-founded the business.
And that’s off-putting.”Gorman, the former Axon lawyer, said he “vividly” remembers an executive asking him if he was going to be tased.
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