Government agencies in Utah and Indiana have suspended their contracts with Banjo — In the wake of a OneZero investigation that revealed Banjo CEO Damien Patton’s association with the Ku Klux Klan and participation in the shooting of a synagogue in his youth, government agencies are suspending and reassessing their contracts with the surveillance company. …

Documents reveal Damien Patton, CEO of SoftBank-backed Banjo, admitted to being a neo-Nazi skinhead in his youth — In magazine profiles and on conference stages, Damien Patton, the 47-year-old co-founder and CEO of the surveillance startup Banjo, often recounts a colorful autobiography. He describes how he ran away from a broken home near Los Angeles around age 15 and joined the U.S. Navy before working as a NASCAR…

Fifty years after development began, the supposedly nonlethal Taser has failed to reduce the use of firearms by police — You hear a click, like the sound of a pencil being snapped. That click — and the searing pain that accompanies it — are nearly instantaneous, but your mind tricks you into thinking that there’s a distinct period between them. When a Taser shock hits you, no matter how much…