POLICE used a Taser gun on a deaf, mentally disabled man for failing to leave a shop’s bathroom in the latest controversial use of the stun gun in the US.

Police used a Taser gun on a deaf, mentally disabled man for failing to leave a shop’s bathroom in the latest controversial use of the stun gun in the US, it emerged today.

A horrified sheriff has spoken out after a 72-year-old woman who refused to sign a speeding ticket was stunned twice with a Taser gun after provoking a policeman.