Filed under: corruption, Dictatorship, Dmitry Medvedev, Empire, human rights, Medvedev, moscow, OMON, Oppression, police brutality, police corruption, police crimes, Police State, putin, swat | Tags: alexei dymovsky
Russian Senior Officer Exposes Police Corruption
This was about the worst police beating I’ve ever seen, and they leave him there cuffed and bloody for passer-by’s to see. . .
Police officer in Russia randomly attack gamblers in casino and beat them brutally, the police were free of all charges.
Russian SWAT (OMON) kills innocent boy for fun.
Russian special forces bust wrong car: Police were searching for a Porsche Cayenne carrying bank robbers, the vehicle fit the description so they stopped the car, broke the windows and threw flash grenades seriously beating the passengers. . . Only after attacking had they found out about their mistake.
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Pentagon’s burn weapon could end up in police hands
Raw Story
September 30, 2009
A powerful hand-held weapon being developed by the Pentagon could end up in police hands, says a report in a UK science journal.
The Pentagon’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate has been developing the Thermal Laser System since 2005, with the purpose of developing a weapon that could disperse crowds or incapacitate individuals by causing them to experience burning sensations in their skin.
According to NewScientist magazine, the weapon has evolved into a rifle-mounted instrument, and there are plans for a hand-held model that could be used by police forces.
News of the possibility that police departments could obtain the burn weapon will likely concern civil-liberties advocates, who have been watching with alarm as the Taser conducted-energy weapon has gone into regular use in police forces across the United States.
As NewScientist notes, the weapon is still in the testing phase and kinks have yet to be worked out.
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DHS Doles Out Fed Cash to Deploy Military LRADs in U.S. Cities
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
October 3, 2009
The LRAD devices used against protesters and the residents of Pittsburgh last month were a beta test for things to come. As reported by the Washington Times on October 1, the Department of Homeland Security is doling out federal money to get police departments around the country stocked up on the LRAD weapons.
“With the help of Homeland Security grants, police departments nationwide looking to subdue unruly crowds and political protesters are purchasing a high-tech device originally used by the military to repel battlefield insurgents and Somali pirates with piercing noise capable of damaging hearing,” write Jerry Seper and Chuck Neubauer.
According to San Diego-based American Technology Corp., the company that makes the devices, LRADs are not weapons. American Technology insists LRADs are to be used in order to “influence the behavior and gain compliance” from people.
“It is designed to get people to do what police want. It makes them uncomfortable but does not hurt them,” he said Raymond DeMichiei, Pittsburgh’s deputy director of emergency management and homeland security.
In other words, as was the case in Pittsburgh, LRADs will be used prevent people from engaging in the First Amendment and the right to peacefully assembly and protest government policies.
American Technology stated in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing in September 2008 that the device is “capable of sufficient acoustic output to cause damage to human hearing or human health,” expressing concern that its misuse could lead to lawsuits. It is said the decibel range of the LRAD used in Pittsburgh was similar to standing next to an exploding IED.
“The association said that at 130 to 140 decibels, damage to the ear can be instantaneous, adding that the 145 to 151 range of the LRADS is ‘the kind of sound that can cause tinnitus and hearing damage immediately.’ Tinnitus is a condition that causes ringing in the ears, sometimes permanently,” the Times reports.
Trends forecaster Gerald Celente has an uncanny ability to predict the future. In 1987, he predicted the stock market crash and the fall of the Soviet Union. In November of last year he predicted revolution in America, food riots, tax rebellions, and angry people taking to the streets as the economy implodes and the nation is wracked by mass unemployment.
“America’s going to go through a transition the likes of which no one is prepared for,” said Celente.
It looks like the government will be prepared — to assault the desperate hordes that will gather and make demands on the government — and that is why the Department of Homeland Security is doling out wads of cash to militarized and federalized cops around the country for high-tech weapons.
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Swine flu vaccine recipients could be tracked with RFID bracelets using Big Brother medical technology
Mike Adams
Natural News
Sept 24, 2009
Here’s the scene from some dark, present-day action movie: David Balfour breathed hard. He could hear the thumping of heavy boots outside his door, down the hall, mixed with the muffled grunts of military men. He had known they would come. It was obvious from the moment he refused the VaxTrax bracelet at the county clinic. They said it would keep him safe because they could pinpoint his location if he ever suffered a heart attack or an accident. As a bonus, his entire medical history was also imprinted in the RFID chip, so even if he was found unconscious, they could determine his medical status and start treatment right away.
But he had refused on the spot. David didn’t want to be tracked. So he walked away from the clinic, without the vaccine and without the bracelet.
That was stupid, he now realized. They had apparently tracked him anyway… somehow… and now they were at his door, and their fists pounded loudly.
“Boston Police! Open up!”
He glanced at the window behind him. Too late to plan an escape route. Maybe he should have thought of that earlier, but no, fleeing out the window was the stuff of Hollywood fiction, not here-and-now reality in Boston, Massachusetts.
“Mr. Balfour!” the police shouted. “You have ten seconds to open this door, or we are coming in.”
They weren’t bluffing. Pretending he wasn’t home clearly wouldn’t work. Maybe he could talk his way out of it. “I’ve broken no law!” he screamed back at the door.
“Mr. Balfour,” came the voice in authoritative tones, “You have refused to wear the VaxTrax bracelet as mandated by the National Pandemic Protection Act, and as we cannot determine your vaccination status, you are considered a danger to the people of this city.”
“You have five seconds.”
There was no way to fight this, he realized. So David stood, reached out to the door and began to slide the locking mechanism open…
BAM! The door burst open, striking David across the chest and forehead, flinging him backwards, stumbling, then collapsing with a gasp onto the living room floor. A mass of armored military men swarmed into the room, grabbed his wrists and forced his hands behind his back to be painfully handcuffed. He tried to scream but discovered himself too disoriented to find his voice. All he could do was hurt.
The scramble was over in seconds. He found himself face down, nose buried into the patterns of his living room rug, half conscious, with a hard knee pressed sharply into his kidney. There was a pause.
Then he heard footsteps… not those of military boots, but the soft shuffling of worn walking shoes. This was someone different, someone more… civilian.
“I’m doctor Argosy,” a voice hummed above and behind him. “Mr. Balfour, you are now going to receive an FDA-approved H1N1 vaccination and be fitted with a VaxTrax bracelet. Please remain calm.”
So this is what it has come to, he thought. Face down on the floor of his own home, a squad of vaccine enforcers standing on his back, a pair of handcuffs, a shattered front door, a probable black eye and a doctor, hidden from view, about to inject him with something he knew couldn’t possibly be safe.
The vaccine shot itself was painless and quick. Maybe it was the adrenaline, he thought, that masked the pain. He felt the cold plastic of a tracking bracelet being zipped around his wrist, then the handcuffs slid away and the pressure in his back released. “There, Mr. Balfour. You’re all set,” said the voice of the doctor. “Have a nice day.”
Before leaving, one of the police officers leaned close to him, almost whispering in his ear, “And don’t try to take off your VaxTrax, or we’ll know, and we’ll have to come back here.”
They marched out almost as quickly as they had entered, stomping down the hall for a few moments, and then the sounds paused. A pounding on another door broke the silence. David heard them shouting through the door of his neighbor’s apartment. “Mrs. Henderson, open up. This is the Boston Police!”…
This may not be fiction for very long
The above fictional account may not remain fiction for long. Late last year, the city of Boston began fitting vaccine recipients with RFID tracking bracelets, allowing health authorities to visually track the vaccine status of city residents on a large digital map. This map shows the location and status of anyone wearing an RFID tracking bracelet, thereby revealing areas of the city where vaccination rates are low, too.
By identifying these “low vaccination” areas, city officials could roll in with mobile vaccination units and law enforcement personnel, then march door to door, vaccinating and tagging residents either voluntarily or at gunpoint, depending on the circumstances. It’s all perfectly legal, by the way, under Massachusetts laws that are being put in place right now to handle the expected swine flu pandemic.
This RFID vaccine tracking technology isn’t fiction. It exists right now and was reported by the Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma…) which revealed that vaccine-tracking bracelet trials were in place nearly a year ago.
“Several hundred people are expected to queue up for immunizations at the headquarters of the Boston Public Health Commission,” the Boston Globe reports. “Each of them will get a bracelet printed with a unique identifier code. Information about the vaccine’s recipients, and the shot, will be entered into handheld devices similar to those used by delivery truck drivers.”
This effort, says the Boston Globe, is “aimed at eventually creating a citywide registry of everyone who has had a flu vaccination. The resulting vaccination map would allow swift intervention in neighborhoods left vulnerable to the fast-moving respiratory illness.”
This is an open admission that the kind of scenario depicted in the fictional snapshot at the top of this article could potentially become reality. “Swift intervention” means “rapid-fire vaccinations.” And people who resist those vaccines aren’t going to have much of an opportunity to say no.
The worse the pandemic gets, the more aggressive these actions will become.
If people start dying from the pandemic in larger numbers, the “vaccine squads” are likely to be out in full force, injecting victims at road checkpoints and possibly even in their own homes via door-to-door sweeps. People who refuse to be vaccinated can be legally arrested and detailed by authorities, and to use the exact terms that are about to be passed into law in Mass., they can be “involuntarily transported” to a quarantine camp. Almost sounds like fun, huh? A free ride, free food, free showers… oh yeah, and a free vaccine shot, too, courtesy of the state.
To repeat, this part isn’t fiction: It’s written right into proposed laws that are very likely to be passed and aggressively enforced if a runaway pandemic scenario unfolds. You can read about some of these proposed laws right here: http://www.naturalnews.com/026934_h…
Your papers, please
Beyond the RFID tracking technology, there’s another disturbing development you need to be aware of: Law enforcement all over the country are now reportedly being briefed about the possibility of “vaccine checkpoints.” These could be set up on key roads and highways, and people passing through those checkpoints will have to prove they have been vaccinated or they may face being arrested and “involuntarily transported” to a quarantine camp.
Of course, it might not take much documentation to get past the checkpoints. There’s no formalized vaccine ID card that exists yet, so a letter from your doctor (or some reasonably believable rendition of such) will likely be sufficient, unless they actually mandate vaccine tracking bracelets for everyone (but even that would take years to implement simply due to the manufacturing and distribution logistics).
I’m also not too sure that the masses of American sheeple will be willing to wear RFID bracelets that report their real-time positions to the U.S. government. It’s just a little too close to being barcoded like a Jewish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. People generally don’t like that.
Then again, as the Boston Globe reported in 2008, hundreds of Bostonians actually lined up and volunteered to wear these bracelets, even knowing they would be tracked in real time by their own government. This is disturbing evidence that lots of people just can’t wait to be medically enslaved by the state. Some will actually raise their hands and line up for the opportunity!
On the other end of the spectrum, there are a whole lot of people who will refuse to be medically enslaved by the state. Known as “refuseniks,” these are the people like you and me who choose not to be injected with some hastily-approved chemical cocktail that’s never been long-term tested on anyone. Let the volunteers be the guinea pigs, if they’re really that anxious to get injected. The rest of us will take care of our own immune systems through more natural methods, thank you very much.
Action items: What to do
Here’s the word for those who wish to avoid problems at vaccine checkpoints: Acquire some “proof” of vaccination as soon as possible after the vaccinations begin. And keep it with you at all times.
I’m not actually suggesting you get vaccinated just to get the paperwork, by the way. In fact, there’s a chance you’re already immune to H1N1. You may already have antibodies for the virus, meaning you’ve been “naturally vaccinated” even without a shot. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027037_s…)
Your healthy immune system, you see, will create its own built-in vaccine upon exposure to the pandemic virus, and within a few days after being exposed, you will generate your own H1N1 antibodies, just like all the other people who were vaccinated. Except your antibodies will be even stronger than theirs, because you were exposed to a live virus, while they were only exposed to a weakened one (via the vaccine). So in effect, you will be far better vaccinated against H1N1 than the people who got the vaccine shots!
Even without the vaccine, H1N1 swine flu is no more fatal than a regular seasonal flu, and why should anybody have to prove they’ve been vaccinated against a flu that’s so mild it only kills roughly 1 out of 100,000 people who get infected?
Do you realize that if a pharmaceutical being tested in clinical trials killed the same percentage of people as the swine flu virus, it would be declared astonishingly SAFE by the FDA? The swine flu, as currently circulating, isn’t dangerous. It’s the vaccines that pose the greater risk to your health, in my view. Only time will tell how many people the vaccines end up killing, of course.
Are nasal vaccines safer?
Should you, for some reason, wish to actually get a vaccine in order to acquire vaccine documentation, I recommend nasal vaccines over injected vaccines. They’re inherently safer, in my view, because the nose is one of the natural pathways through which viruses enter your body anyway (as opposed to a hole in your arm). Nasal vaccines don’t contain thimerosal, either.
The FluMist nasal vaccine, just so you know, contains “Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine,” meaning it is made out of live viruses (http://www.cdc.gov/FLU/about/qa/nas…). But your uncle Charlie probably also contains live influenza, so this isn’t anything to be too worried about. If you plan to get lots of rest, have strong immune system support, get lots of vitamin D and spend a few days recuperating with little or no stress, your chances of being harmed by the nasal vaccine are virtually nil, unless you’re obese and suffer from a preexisting respiratory condition or immune system problem, in which case you shouldn’t be receiving a nasal vaccine in the first place.
If you actually do get a vaccine, hold on to the paperwork. That’s what will get you through the vaccine checkpoints, if they are indeed put into play. In reality, there are likely to be hundreds of different documents showing “proof” of vaccination, so anything that looks even remotely convincing will probably get you through. What the checkpoint police will really be looking for are people who are completely clueless and haven’t gone through the trouble to come up with any paperwork at all. Those are the ones likely to be injected or detained.
Dealing with a mandatory RFID bracelet
So what happens if everybody is required to wear RFID bracelets that track their whereabouts and vaccination status?
I think this is highly unlikely in the short term, as there probably aren’t enough bracelets to go around (unless huge truckloads of bracelets have been secretly manufactured and stored somewhere, which seems really unlikely). But I wouldn’t put it past these people in the medium term: This is the perfect way to enslave the population under some medical pretext. Some percentage of the population will even line up and volunteer to be outfitted with such devices.
If such bracelets do get forced upon the population, within a few days you’ll start to see websites appearing on the ‘net with instructions for hacking or disabling your bracelet. Since those websites don’t exist yet, I can’t point you to them, but it’s a fairly easy Google search on the term “disable RFID.” That search will pull up sites like this one: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/20…
And that website advises the following:
“The last (and most covert) method for destroying a RFID tag is to hit it with a hammer. Just pick up any ordinary hammer and give the chip a few swift hard whacks. This will destroy the chip, and leave no evidence that the tag has been tampered with. This method is suitable for destroying the tags in passports, because there will be no proof that you intentionally destroyed the chip.”
Obviously, don’t hit the bracelet with a hammer if you are still wearing it, or the RFID chip won’t be the only thing you’ll disable. Anyone who fails this intelligence test should probably just put the bracelet back on and hopelessly do what they’re told.
Don’t worry about being caught with a “failed” chip. Chip failures will be common, so the authorities will be used to the idea that a lot of bracelets just don’t work correctly. If they ask why yours isn’t working, just shrug and say, “Dunno. I thought it was working fine. Maybe it got bumped or something…”
Don’t freak out over this
So is this RFID tracking bracelet a sign of things to come? Possibly. They’re clearly experimenting with the technology not only to see how well the tech works, but more importantly to get some answers on the psychology: Will people accept tracking bracelets? Will they feel protected, or enslaved? Will they try to remove or disable the bracelets?
For now, I’m not aware of any serious talk of tracking bracelets being made mandatory, nor is there even any real chatter about making swine flu vaccinations mandatory for the public at large (although certain professionals such as day care workers and hospital staffers are being told to get vaccinated or lose their jobs…). But all this could change almost overnight. One mutation of H1N1 could rewrite the entire play book on this by increasing the fatality rate of the infection. From there, it would be a simple matter for vaccination mandates to be swiftly put into place, and mandatory tracking bracelets could soon follow.
Let’s hope that scenario doesn’t unfold. I know there are many good law enforcement professionals out there who would never go along with such a Nazi-inspired medical enslavement scheme, but sadly there are more than enough who will be willing to follow orders and carry through with whatever they’re told to do. Let us hope our law enforcement community is never forced to make that decision.
If things get worse, however, be prepared to produce your vaccination documentation (”papers, please”) at roadblocks and checkpoints. And make sure you dutifully wear your vaccination RFID tracking bracelet, too, even if you’ve hammered the RFID chip into scrap.
Filed under: 1st amendment, Dictatorship, Dissent, domestic terror, domestic terrorism, Empire, Fascism, free speech, g20, humiliation, intimidation, intimidation tactics, nazi germany, Oppression, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh g20 summit, pittsburgh police department, Pittsburgh summit, Pittsburgh summit 2009, police brutality, Police State, Protest, psychological warfare, Psyops, riot squads, stasi, stasi tactics, swat, UN, Uncategorized, united nations, urban warfare, War On Terror | Tags: Pittsburgh university, university of Pittsburgh
G20 Police Take Group Photo With Arrested Student
A dozen or-so Pittsburgh police officers take a group photo with an arrested student that is forced to kneel on the ground, the cops act like hunters or fishermen taking photos of their ‘big catch’, truly disgusting.
Filed under: 1st amendment, Dictatorship, Dissent, domestic terror, domestic terrorism, Empire, Fascism, free speech, g20, intimidation, intimidation tactics, Iraq, kettling, LRAD, Martial Law, militarization, Military, Military Industrial Complex, military weapons, mlitary, Nazi, nazi germany, Operation Steel Kickoff, Oppression, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh g20 summit, pittsburgh police department, Pittsburgh summit, Pittsburgh summit 2009, police brutality, Police State, Protest, riot squads, super weapons, swat, urban warfare, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: Pittsburgh university, university of Pittsburgh
First Time Sound Cannon Used Against American Citizens
UTV
September 25, 2009
Only a few hundreds protesters took to the streets of Pittsburgh to mark the opening day of the G20 summit of world leaders, but the police were taking no chances.
Sonic weapons or long-range acoustic devices have been used by the US military overseas, notably against Somali pirates and Iraqi insurgents.
But US security forces turned the piercing sound on their own citizens yesterday to widespread outrage. Pittsburgh officials told the New York Times that it was the first time “sound cannon” had been used publicly.
The sonic weapon appear to be more effective than the Metropolitan police’s highly contentious kettling tactics used against G20 protesters in London. But it is equally controversial.
It is feared the sounds emitted are loud enough to damage eardrums and even cause fatal aneurysms.
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CNN Reporter Hit With Chemicals At G-20 Protests In Pittsburgh
Filed under: Child Abuse, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Raid, swat, war on drugs | Tags: joseph chavalia, Tarika Wilson
Cop who shot woman holding a baby acquitted
AP
August 5, 2008
A white police officer was acquitted Monday in the drug-raid shooting death of an unarmed black woman that set off protests about how police treat minorities in a city where one in four residents is black.
The all-white jury found Sgt. Joseph Chavalia not guilty of misdemeanor charges of negligent homicide and negligent assault. He had faced up to eight months in jail if convicted of both counts.
Chavalia shot 26-year-old Tarika Wilson and her year-old son she was holding, killing her and hitting him in the shoulder and hand, during a Jan. 4 SWAT raid on her house. One of the child’s fingers had to be amputated.
Woman was on her knees holding a baby while shot in the neck by a cop
AP
July 31, 2008
A woman shot and killed by a police officer during a drug raid was likely on her knees and complying with a SWAT team’s orders to get down when she was hit in the neck and chest, two experts testified Wednesday at the officer’s trial.
A forensic pathologist and firearms expert each said that bullet wounds indicate that Tarika Wilson, 26, wasn’t standing.
Sgt. Joseph Chavalia has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor counts of negligent homicide and negligent assault. He faces up to eight months in jail if convicted of both counts.
Prosecutors rested their case Wednesday. Defense testimony will begin today.
The shooting during a drug raid in January set off protests and debate about race relations in the city, where one in four residents is black.
Wilson, who was black, was unarmed and holding her 1-year-old son when she was shot. The boy also was hit and had a finger amputated.
She was partially behind a door in an upstairs bedroom with her five other children when officers downstairs began shooting at two pit bulls.
Chavalia, who is white, told another officer that he thought the shots were coming from the bedroom.
“I said, ’Joe, what happened?’ ” testified Lt. Chip Protsman, the commander of the SWAT team. “He said, ’They were firing at me from the bedroom, and I shot back.’ ”
Protsman said he found Chavalia alone in the middle of the hallway while other officers were running into the bedroom.
Chavalia was coming up a stairway when he shot Wilson.
Eleven officers raided the house on Jan. 4 looking for her boyfriend, Anthony Terry. He was arrested and pleaded guilty in March to charges of drug trafficking.
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Mayor’s Dogs Killed After Cops Deliver Pot
AP
July 31, 2008
A SWAT team raided the home of a Washington, D.C.-area mayor, killing his two black Labrador retrievers and seizing an unopened package of marijuana delivered there.
Prince George’s County Police said Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo brought a 32-pound package of marijuana into his home that had been delivered by officers posing as delivery men. The Tuesday evening raid was conducted by county police narcotics officers and a sheriff’s office SWAT Team.
The package was addressed to Calvo’s wife, Trinity Tomsic. His mother-in-law had asked the supposed delivery men to leave the package outside. Calvo has not been charged, though police said he, his wife and his mother-in-law are “persons of interest” in an ongoing investigation.
“We never opened the box. We have nothing to do with this box,” Calvo said.
Sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt. Mario Ellis says deputies “apparently felt threatened” when they shot the dogs.
Calvo said officers entered about 7:30 p.m., first shooting 7-year-old Payton. They then pursued 4-year-old Chase, who ran away and was shot by police from behind, he said.
Calvo said he doesn’t have any idea how the package ended up at his house. He called the raid “the most traumatic experience” of his life.
Calvo, who called his town “Mayberry inside the Capital Beltway,” gets a small stipend as mayor and works at the SEED Foundation, a nonprofit that runs public boarding schools for at-risk students. His wife works as a state finance officer.
“These were two beautiful black Labradors who were well-known in the community. We walked them twice a day; little kids knew their names and would come up to them and pet them,” he said.
Filed under: 4th amendment, Child Abuse, civil liberties, civil rights, human rights, Minneapolis, New York, NYPD, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Raid, swat, Taser Guns, US Constitution, war on drugs | Tags: Officer Maurice Harrington, police assault, police attack, Rachel Hoffman, rodney king, Vang Khang
NYPD Cops Beat Already Restrained Man With Batons
NY Post
July 31, 2008
The day after a video emerged of a cop knocking a cyclist to the ground, a second video alleging police brutality surfaced today in which an NYPD officer is seen whaling away at a man’s legs with a baton.
The footage – shot on July 4 on the Lower East Side – shows Officer Maurice Harrington repeatedly hitting Michael Cephus, 46, on his legs with a collapsible metal baton as he struggles with officers trying to cuff him.
Harrington – a four-year veteran working out of the 52nd Precinct in The Bronx – had his badge and gun taken away and was placed on modified duty when the tape was turned over to the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau.
Star Tribune
July 30, 2008
First, the city apologized. Then it gave awards.
Eight Minneapolis officers received medals in City Hall Monday for their valor in a botched raid that the city apologized for last year. That isn’t sitting well with the family shot at multiple times by the officers.
“I’m shocked that they’re receiving awards for that night,” said Yee Moua. “My family is a mess right now. My [9-year-old] son, who saw the shooting, still has nightmares and has needed therapy. They’ve ruined a life, and I don’t understand why they would get rewarded for that.”
The awards stemmed from a high-risk search in December. The eight officers — who had SWAT training — entered the house expecting to find a violent gang member. Instead, they found Vang Khang, a 35-year-old homeowner who thought he was being robbed. Khang shot through his bedroom door at the officers until he understood who they were.
In the midst of the shootout were Moua, who is Khang’s wife, and their six children, who range in age from 3 to 15. Moua said her family has since abandoned the house and can no longer afford to keep it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_U9IUQ4m0
Experts say woman was on knees when officer fired
http://www.limaohio.com/news/foy_26243___article.html/chavalia_wilson.html
School To Put Students In ’Prison’ Jumpsuits As Punishment
http://www.local6.com/education/17035594/detail.html
Injured, tasered teen: ‘At least I’m alive.’
http://www.prisonplanet.com/injured-tasered-teen-at-least-im-alive.html
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FBI & Homeland Security Behind Indianapolis Martial Law Drills
Daily Newscaster
June 19, 2008
For over two weeks 2,300 Marines have been using the city of Indianapolis and its civilian population as a “simulated urban combat zone” under the direction of FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
The exercises began on June 4th when Mayor Greg Ballard surrendered 26 sites around the city. The corporate press, Marine spokesmen, and officials with the city of Indianapolis have all been using the same talking points in an attempt to pacify local citizens and moderate any dissent. The official story has been that the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit is here to do pre-deployment training in a realistic urban environment. Col. Mark J. Desens, the unit’s commanding officer, said “Our aim in Indianapolis is to expose our Marines to realistic scenarios and stresses posed by operating in an actual urban community. The city’s new mayor Greg Ballard concurs with the commander saying, “I think it’s very good training for them…actually, city fighting, urban fighting is really the most dangerous type of fighting there is.”
But the cover story has several obvious flaws, as the Marines have a multitude of facilities in which to experience “realistic scenarios.” To begin Camp Lejeune is home of MOUT Military Operations Urban Terrain or urban combat training village, modeled after an Iraqi town. Located in Kuwait is a high tech realistic urban MOUT training facility (watch video) covering 30 acres and costing taxpayers 15 million to build. The FBI in Quantico, VA has an extensive “Hogan’s Alley,” urban combat training center where the Marines could practice for pre – deployment and fire live ammunition.
In fact live fire exercises are the preferred and usually required type of training for units deploying to combat zones, the Army performs this type of training at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk Louisiana. The JRTC offers improved unit readiness by providing a highly realistic, stressful, joint and combined arms training across the full spectrum of conflict, current and future. Perhaps the biggest flaw in the cover story being sold by the controlled press and others is that, “Most of the Marines with the 26th MEU are Iraqi combat veterans.” according to Col. Hill of Camp Lejeune.
While the Marines and their spokesmen are being put front and center for public consumption the “terror drills” they are conducting have been set up by the FBI under TAMACOR. The TAMACOR program is designed to integrate federal and state law enforcement agencies with the USMC. Taken from a Department of Defense memo, “The TAMACOR Program supports the FBI by coordinating regional FBI SWAT training during USMC special operations training on non-DoD facilities.” Under TAMACOR the Marines have been training to perform law enforcement functions since 1992 when the FBI and Marines formalized the agreement with the signing of the initial MOU, Memorandum of Understanding. Civilian authorities and their appointed agents have been using these MOU’s to weaken Posse Comitatus over the years, initially using the War on Drugs as their justification.
We have learned from Major T. A. Smith, Chief Deputy of the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Office that the Department of Homeland Security is also behind these operations. However when questioned no one from the Department of Homeland Security or the FBI would elaborate on their involvement, referring us back Lt. Patrick, Public Affairs Officer of the 26th MEU.
Compartmentalization and keeping people in the dark about training Marines in a police role seems to be a major objective of these exercises. This is evident in the stream of propaganda coming from civilian authorities and the controlled press these last few weeks. From the Indianapolis Star we are told, “Indianapolis residence hoping to experience a bit of shock and awe.” Mark Casey a local Indianapolis blogger says, “A word to the Indianapolis wise [see if you like martial law you are “wise.”] … when you see that formation of helicopters flying low over your back yard this week, remember that its only a drill!”
According to the Indianapolis Mayor there is really no need to be concerned. “I don’t think it was necessary for any citywide meetings on this,” Ballard said. “The neighborhoods will be well-informed on what’s going on.” Perhaps some meetings would have been beneficial since the owner of one the surrendered sites, Rich Banta was not told about the plans. Banta said, “That it [Eastgate Consumer Mall] is a construction site … I’d hate to see a Ray’s Trash truck run into a helicopter.” When speaking to another city official a little bit of truth slipped out when Debbie Fletcher of the Indianapolis/Marion Country Emergency Management Agency said, “We don’t want anyone thinking that there’s an invasion happening or that we declared martial law or something like that.”
The preponderance of the evidence strongly suggest that the Marines in Indianapolis are being prepared for civilian law enforcement functions in direct violation of Posse Comitatus which prohibits federal troops from exercising state law enforcement police or peace officer powers to maintain “law and order” on non-federal property. I suspect most of the Marines in the 26th are not even aware of their role in this joint law enforcement exercises. Neither the Marines nor Indiana police have been briefed on the significance of the Posse Comitatus Act.
Due to alternative press coverage and public awareness much of what the FBI and DHS had planned for the citizens of Indianapolis has been scaled back or cancelled. Marines did execute a mock terror cell raid on and occupied apartment complex but there is little evidence of the other locations mentioned in earlier press releases being used. Largely Marine training has been restricted to Camp Atterbury and the Raytheon facility on the city’s east side, leaving the Marines biggest public exposure to be at the Indiana State Fairgrounds during a community outreach day.
It is critically important for all readers to understand that it is the military veterans of this nation who are sounding the alarm as rogue elements within our government have decided to Cross the Rubicon misusing the relationship between the public and U. S. Armed Forces to desensitize military and law enforcement personnel and encourage them to accept what was once considered unacceptable. “We’re all part of the national defense mechanism in some way,” Ballard said. “The impact on the city will be very minimal. . . . They just have to trust us that we’re doing the right thing for the city and the nation.”
The ultimate mission of the Marine Corps is to protect and defend The Constitution, not to practice waging war against America.
Filed under: 1st amendment, 2008 olympics, beijing, Britain, California, Censorship, China, chinese military, CNN, Communism, Conditioning, Dalai Lama, Dissent, ethnic cleansing, Europe, foreign troops, France, Globalism, human rights, internet blackout, internet police, IOC, london, merkel, Military, olympics, Oppression, paris, police brutality, Police State, Propaganda, Protest, san fransisco, smoking ban, swat, tibet, tibet protests, torch relay, Troops, United Kingdom, US Constitution | Tags: Golden Gate Bridge, Konnie Huq, Laurel Sutherlin, PAP, people's armed police, richard gere, Sir Clive Woodward, Yahoo!
CNN camera-man knocked down and kicked by police in London
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t_QqtMVGC3Y
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hRHofFA7vuQ
Protestor grabs Olympic torch as it journeys through London
Scott Anthony
The Observer
April 6, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ojXr6BTAjow
Despite being shielded by a 50-strong pack of British policeman and Chinese security guards, the Olympic torch parade has been continually interrupted along its 31-mile journey from Wembley Stadium to the O2 Arena by those protesting at China’s human rights record.
A Free Tibet protestor attempted to wrestle the Olympic flame from Blue Peter TV presenter Konnie Huq before being bundled to the ground by police in Ladbroke Grove; two others were taken away after trying to put out the torch with a fire extinguisher in Holland Park and the relay was temporarily stopped near Bloomsbury after three people went too close to Sir Clive Woodward. Throughout its journey, several other protestors also threw themselves in front of those carrying the torch. So far 10 people have been arrested, although this figure is expected to grow.
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Protesters scale Golden Gate Bridge
AP
April 8, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wzao9-BRYxI
Three people protesting China’s human rights record and the impending arrival of the Olympic torch climbed up the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday and tied the Tibetan flag and two banners to its cables.
The banners read “One World One Dream. Free Tibet” and “Free Tibet 08.”
The protesters wore helmets and harnesses as they made their way up the cables running next to the south tower of the famed span. The climb had the group suspended several 150 feet above traffic.
Reached by cell phone as he dangled from the bridge, demonstrator Laurel Sutherlin said he was worried that the torch’s planned route through Tibet would lead to more arrests and Chinese officials would use force to stifle any visible dissent.
“The leaders of China have said they’ll maintain order at all costs, and we know what that means — bloodshed and violent oppression,” he said. “If the IOC allows the torch to proceed into Tibet they’ll have blood on their hands.”
Richard Gere and Desmond Tutu Speak
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and actor Richard Gere attend a candle-light vigil in San Fransisco on tuesday asking China to “talk to the Dalai Lama”.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-qwaYlqlqjo
Police Brutality in Paris leaves Tibetian protester with bloody mouth
An internal investigation is being sought out for claims of police ripping-away tibetian flags from demonstrators, police are seen roughing up pro-tibetians leaving one with a bloody mouth shouting “Free Tibet!”.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pwVQuJs8EsY
Dalai Lama backs Olympics, says violence outdated
Chisa Fujioka
Reuters
April 10, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-7z_-wqAV2Q
The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, said on Thursday he supports the Beijing Olympics and opposed violent protests that have disrupted the Olympic torch relay around the world.
“It is really deserving for the Chinese people to host the Olympic Games,” he told reporters in Japan. “(Despite) the recent unfortunate event in Tibet, my position won’t change.”
But China’s use of violence was an outdated way to suppress unrest in Tibet, he said during a brief stopover on his way to the United States for a two-week visit he said was not political.
The Dalai Lama told reporters he had sent a message to Tibetans in San Francisco, where the torch relay was held on Wednesday.
“I sent a message to the Tibetans in San Francisco area, please don’t make any violent actions,” he said.
But he added: “Nobody has the right to say ‘shut up’.”
The torch was a magnet last week for chaotic demonstrations in London and Paris and the torch’s only stop in North America turned into a game of hide-and-seek after the San Francisco route was abruptly changed by city officials.
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Recent News:
http://www.latimes.com/news/natio..ucate8apr08,1,6576960.story
Thousands of Workers Protest in Southern China
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-4-10/68933.html
Chinese Cops Fire On Tibet Protesters Kill 8
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3683878.ece
China jails rights activist outspoken on Tibet
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSPEK11067920080403
Yahoo fund aids ’cyber dissidents’ in China
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Yahoo.._dissidents_in_04022008.html
Olympic Torch Relay in Paris; Flame Put Out, AP Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/new..bLxJNY.Lo3w&refer=home
IOC To Beijing: Don’t Censor Internet
http://news.yahoo.com/s/a..AlQ1HA7RvNKiSFs0F
Olympics ’worsening China rights’
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=79347&videoChannel=1
China Claims Tibetans Planning Suicide Attacks
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080401/D8VP0TVO0.html
Beijing To Ban Smoking Ahead Of Olympics
http://www.breitbart.com/article..32.8zb4q4yg&show_article=1
Chinese Regime Implicated in Staging Violence in Lhasa
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-3-28/67906.html
Merkel says she will not attend opening of Beijing Olympics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/29/germany.olympicgames2008
Olympic Torch Rerouted For U.S. Relay
Torch headed out of San Francisco after surprise route designed to thwart protesters
China Readies for Protests During Olympic Torch Relay
China cloaking soldiers as monks to incite riots
Chinese Foreign Ministry Alleges Western Media Faking, Distorting Riot Reports
China condemns ’vile’ Olympic torch protests
Filed under: Bank of England, Bear Stearns, bernanke, Big Banks, BOE, central bank, Congress, Credit Crisis, DEBT, Dick Cheney, Economic Collapse, economic depression, Economy, Euro, Federal Reserve, florida, George Bush, Germany, global economy, Globalism, Great Depression, Greenback, henry paulson, housing market, Inflation, JP Morgan, Northern Rock, Paulson, Police State, real estate, Stock Market, subprime, subprime lending, swat, US Economy, US Treasury | Tags: Don Kohn, nationalize banks, Nordic bank nationalisations
Federal Reserve Plans To Nationalize All US Banks
Telegraph
March 31, 2008
The US Federal Reserve is examining the Nordic bank nationalisations of the 1990s as a possible interim solution to the US financial crisis…
The Fed has been criticised for its rescue of Bear Stearns, which critics say has degenerated into a taxpayer gift to rich bankers…
A senior official at one of the Scandinavian central banks told The Daily Telegraph that Fed strategists had stepped up contacts to learn how Norway, Sweden and Finland managed their traumatic crisis from 1991 to 1993, which brought the region’s economy to its knees…
It is understood that Fed vice-chairman Don Kohn remains very concerned by the depth of the US crisis and is eyeing the Nordic approach for contingency options…
Scandinavia’s bank rescue proved successful and is now a model for central bankers, unlike Japan’s drawn-out response, where ailing banks were propped up in a half-public limbo for years…
While the responses varied in each Nordic country, there a was major effort to avoid the sort of “moral hazard” that has bedevilled efforts by the Fed and the Bank of England in trying to stabilise their banking systems…
Norway ensured that shareholders of insolvent lenders received nothing and the senior management was entirely purged. Two of the country’s top four banks – Christiania Bank and Fokus – were seized by force majeure…
“We were determined not to get caught in the game we’ve seen with Bear Stearns where shareholders make money out of the rescue,” said one Norwegian adviser…
“The law was amended so that we could take 100pc control of any bank where its equity had fallen below zero. Shareholders were left with nothing. It was very controversial,” he said…
Stefan Ingves, governor of Sweden’s Riksbank, said his country passed an act so it could seize banks where the capital adequacy ratio had fallen below 2pc. Efforts were also made to protect against “blackmail” by shareholders…
Mr Ingves said there were parallels with the US crisis, citing the use of off-balance sheet vehicles to speculate on property. All the Nordic banks were nursed back to health and refloated or merged…
The tough policies contrast with the Fed’s bail-out of Bear Stearns, where shareholders forced JP Morgan to increase its Fed-led rescue offer from $2 to $10 a share. Christopher Wood, chief strategist at brokers CLSA, says the Fed’s piecemeal approach has led to “appalling moral hazard”…
“Shareholders have been able to lobby for a higher share price only because the Fed took over the credit risk on $30bn of the investment bank’s dubious paper. The whole affair also amounts to a colossal subsidy for JP Morgan,” he said…
Federal Reserve SWAT Teams To Police The Economy?
NY Times
March 3, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad new authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any institution that might pose a risk to the overall system.
[…]
Under the Treasury proposal, Fed officials would be allowed to examine the practices and even the internal bookkeeping of brokerage firms, hedge funds, commodity-trading exchanges and any other institution that might pose a risk to the overall financial system.
Real Estate Price Collapse, Paradise Lost in SW Florida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgTdxEGauok
Recession: The Movie – Now playing everywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4OOCReeLWo
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/991194..000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
Fed Bailout Of Bear Streans Looks Like Investment
http://www.businessweek.com/..4/b4078000069548.htm
German watchdog eyes $600 bln global bank losses: report
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080329/germany_banks_losses.html?.v=1
Weak dollar not at odds with policy: ex-US official
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSHKG3018120080331
Dollar Falls to Near Record Low Against Euro on Inflation Data
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi..4V7YusRk&refer=japan
Market Plunges, Fed Acts
http://norris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/market-plunges-fed-acts/
Paulson Claims Stimulus To Create 600K Jobs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/2008.._nNh3mLV3UPKb.HQA
Paulson warns US house prices must plunge; Orders for Durable Goods in U.S. Unexpectedly Fell
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b.._finance/article3627054.ece
Paulson Backs Regulatory Overhaul, Broader Fed Role
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/new..sid=a9LEWNdBhrf8&refer=home
Is Cheney betting on Economic Collapse?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13851.htm
Fed Auctions Another $50 Billion To Banks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200..vxGaVFf7P_qKL62bAV9mpv24cA
Paulson To Visit China Next Week
One In Six West Virginians On Food Stamps
Bush: Rebate Checks Will Make Economy ‘Stronger Than Ever Before’
Eurozone Struggles With Inflation
USA 2008: The Great Depression
Fed Official: U.S. Slipping Into Recession
Investment Firms Tap Fed For Billions
Cops Raid Wrong House and Owner Pulls a Shotgun
WCCO
February 11, 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QNxRXTU2gog
Few things are more frightening than hearing a noise and thinking someone is inside your house. Late last year, Yee Moua watched a movie at her family’s home in North Minneapolis. Her husband, Vang Khang, and six young kids were safe in their beds just across the street from the neighborhood police station.
However, shortly after midnight strange sounds and breaking glass jolted Moua from the TV to the telephone. Fearing violent criminals were breaking in, she dialed 911 and her husband grabbed his shotgun.
WCCO-TV has obtained a copy of a tape of the calls where Moua pleads for the 911 operator to send help.
Filed under: Airport Security, animal cruelty, Big Brother, California, Child Abuse, civil rights, no-fly list, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Raid, swat, Taser Guns, war on drugs
SWAT Team Kills Mother and Child During Drug Raid
Stop The Drug War
January 11, 2008
In November 2006, 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston was killed by police during a raid conducted at the wrong house. Ms. Johnston fired at the police officers as they were breaking in through her living room window. Three officers were injured, but Ms. Johnston was struck 39 times and died at the scene.
In July 2007, Mike Lefort, 61, and his mother, Thelma, 83, were surprised and thrown to the ground when Thibodeau, Louisiana police burst into the wrong house with a “no knock” warrant. Thelma suffered from a spike in her blood pressure and had a difficult time overcoming the shock.
In March 2007, masked police officers in Jacksonville, Florida, mistakenly burst into the home of Willie Davis, grandfather of murdered DreShawna Davis, and his mentally disabed son. The pair were forced to the ground, where they watched helplessly as police tore apart the memorabilia from DreShawn’s funeral. The drug sale that never happened was said to involve all of two crack rocks worth $60.
One would think after Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston, that they would get the idea, but they haven’t. Last Friday, 1/4/08, a SWAT team, serving an ordinary drug search warrant, invaded the Ohio home of Tarika Wilson — an innocent woman — shot and killed her, and shot her one-year-old son. “They went in that home shooting,” her mother said at a vigil that night. The boy lost at least one of his fingers. Two dogs were shot too.
SWAT teams were created to deal with extreme situations, not routine ones. Yet police now conduct tens of thousands of SWAT raids every year, mostly in low-level drug enforcement. The result is that people like Wilson and Johnston continue to die in terror, with many thousands more having to go on living with trauma. But it’s all for a drug war that has failed and can’t be made to work.
It’s time to rein in the SWAT teams. Please sign our online petition: “Enough is Enough: Petition to Limit Paramilitary Police Raids in America.” A copy will be sent in your name to your US Representative and Senators, your state legislators, your governor, and the president. When you’re done, please tell your friends and please spread the word wherever you can.
62-year-old woman beaten while in Va. Beach City jail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux-2wtP5z0Y
http://baltimorecrime.blogsp…ion-for-raping-16.html
Man who died in cop Tasing identified
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/375399.html
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2008/01/09/news/10_taser_080109.txt
5-year-old detained at airport, has same name as someone on no-fly list
http://www.king5.com/video/featured-index.html?nvid=206446
http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/news.asp?ID=2167&m=print
Mayor Wants Litter Bugs to go to Jail
http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=7602609&nav=8H3x
VIDEO: Police Taser Man Who Was On His Knees
http://rinf.com/alt-news..ho-was-on-his-knees/2126/
Dear family, sorry we kicked down your door at 3AM with guns drawn, some drunk idiot gave us the wrong address. Sincerely, the El Paso Police Dept
http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/14973203/detail.html
Police organizations back up bad cops and punish the good cops who snitch on the corrupt ones
http://www.theagitator.com/2008/01/03/cop-of-the-year-2007/
Taser-Happy Cop Faces FBI Probe
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/03/national/main3671218.shtml
Filed under: Child Abuse, Fascism, kidnapping, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Soviet Union, swat | Tags: Tom Shiflett
SWAT Goons Dispatched On Homeschoolers in Colorado
Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
January 7, 2008
In Garfield County, Colorado, not only will the state determine if you should take your child to a doctor after a mishap, but if you don’t comply with their on-high directives, they will dispatch a SWAT team to ensure compliance.
According to Tom Shiflett, a Vietnam vet, his son was injured during horseplay, WorldNetDaily reports. Shiflett’s son, John, “was grabbing the door handle of a car as his sister was starting to drive away slowly. He slipped, fell to the ground and hit his head…. There were no broken bones, no dilated eyes, or any other noticeable problems.”
After a neighbor called an ambulance, paramedics “were allowed to see the boy, and found no significant impairment, but wanted to take him to the hospital for an evaluation anyway. Fearing the hospital’s bills, the family refused to allow that.”
According to friends of the family, Tom Shiflett, who has 10 children including six still at home, and served with paramedics in Vietnam, was monitoring his son’s condition himself.
The paramedic and magistrate, however, ruled that that wasn’t adequate, and dispatched the officers to take the boy, John, to a hospital, where a doctor evaluated him and released him immediately.
But this was not sufficient for the sheriff’s office and social services. “Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team” were subsequently unleashed in response, “punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family’s home with guns drawn, demanding that an 11-year-old boy… accompany them to the hospital, on the order of Garfield County Magistrate Lain Leoniak.”
It appears Shiflett and his family were made an example, as in part they “live by faith and homeschool,” social behavior anathema to the NWO and its minions in Colorado government and so-called social services and various control commissariats, conversely known as child kidnapping services.
“While people can debate whether or not the father should have brought his son to the ER — it seems like this was not the kind of emergency that warrants this kind of outrageous conduct by government officials,” a spokesman for the Home School Legal Defense Association told WND.
During the SWAT raid for non-compliance, the “boy’s parents and siblings were thrown to the floor at gunpoint and the parents were handcuffed… all because a paramedic was upset the family preferred to care for their son themselves.”
Of course, caring for your own is unacceptable, same as it was in the Soviet Union. Mr. Shiflett and his family learned first-hand that all of us are serfs and when the state barks “jump,” our only response should be “how high, sir?” Our children are property of the state and we will not be allowed to care for them — or for that matter, school them at home — and government intervention will be mandatory, otherwise SWAT goons will be dispatched to kick in the door and act like what they are, Gestapo goons revisited.
SWAT Team Kidnaps 11 Year Old Boy
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59566
Filed under: Big Brother, Jack Cafferty, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, swat, Taser Guns, Texas, utah
Man Tasered For Refusing To Sign Ticket
Salt Lake Tribune
November 22, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMaMYL_shxc
It’s right there on YouTube: A Utah Highway Patrol trooper appears to Taser a motorist after he refused to sign his speeding ticket.
The UHP confirms the man has filed a complaint over the incident two months ago. He requested and received video from the trooper’s dash-cam, which he then posted it to the Internet.
UHP reportedly is investigating the incident, and whether its trooper was justified in Tasering the motorist.
The incident purportedly happened near Vernal in mid-September. The driver’s SUV was pulled over for speeding. His wife and a toddler reportedly were inside the vehicle at the time.
The video shows the driver becoming visibly frustrated, demanding to know how fast he was going.
The trooper responds, “Well, you’re going to sign this first.” “No, I’m not. I’m not signing anything, officer,” the driver replies.
It was after the trooper ordered the man to put his hands behind his back — and the driver refused, instead trying to return to the car — that the trooper Tasered the man.
3 Taser Deaths Over Weekend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7f1xu6YV8A
TASER Corporation On The Defensive Over Deaths
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Tase…suspe_11202007.html
Another day, another cop kills by Taser
http://www.nowpublic.com/technolo….ia-jail-after-taser-hit
SWAT Team Raids Wrong Apartment
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=66742
Houston Police Secretly Test Surveillance Drone
http://www.click2houston.com/investigates/14659066/detail.html
Building The Bi-Partisan Police State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/017063.html
Cafferty Viewers Warn Of Police State
http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=8334