By KIERAN CROWLEY
June 11, 2008
A day after the NYPD announced it may issue stun devices to its entire force, a 26-year-old Brooklyn man died in the Hamptons when he swallowed some cocaine to hide it from cops - and was Tasered to cough it up.
Suffolk County Police were awaiting autopsy results but said they believed the large amount of coke ingested by the man - and not the stun gun - caused his death.
Tony Bradway was busted by Southampton Town Police at 10 a.m. Monday. Officers went to a house on an unrelated case and said they spotted a plastic bag with white powder.
When Bradway started to gulp down the powder, a cop Tasered him twice.
Bradway later went into cardiac arrest and died.
The death came on the heels of a study that showed NYPD cops could have avoided 5 percent of shootings if equipped with Tasers.
