Filed under: 1984, Airport Security, Big Brother, bilderberg, biometrics, Control Grid, DHS, Dictatorship, Empire, FAA, Flight 253, Fox News, gps, Homeland Security, implantable microchip, microchip, microchips, passport, Police State, Propaganda, RFID, RFID bracelet, shock bracelet, Surveillance, taser, Taser Guns, War On Terror | Tags: Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, christmas bomber, Electro-Musclar Disruption, EMD Safety Bracelet
Fox News Hypes RFID Tracking Shock Bracelet
Filed under: California, DEBT, Dissent, Economy, education, education system, federal crimes, fees, Inflation, Oppression, pepperspray, police brutality, Police State, Protest, riot, taser, Taser Guns, tax, UCLA, US Economy | Tags: sit in, tuition, tuition increase, UC, UC Berkeley, UC Merced, UC regents, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSB, UCSC, UCSD, University of California
Students from all UC’s (UCI, UCSD, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCD, UCSB, UCSC, UC Merced, UCR) gather to address the fee hikes induced to widen the education gap between the privileged and less so.
UC Regents Pass 32% Fee Increase on Students, Sparks Outrage
Daily Nexus
November 19, 2009
The UC Board of Regents officially approved a 32 percent student fee increase.
At today’s meeting, board members cast their votes – with only one dissenting – to hike mandatory system-wide undergraduate student fees to over $10,000 next year. The increase will occur in two stages, with the first 15 percent spiking midyear fees from $7,788 to $8,373 and the next 15 percent upping 2010-11 fees to $10,302.
This fee hike marks the ninth time in seven years that the UC Regents approved an increase in undergraduate tuition fees.
Student Regent Jesse Bernal, a UCSB graduate student, cast the only vote against the proposal.
Across the UCLA campus, protesters held rallies against the fee hike. Some students also occupied a university lecture hall for a sit-in demonstration.
UCLA
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Filed under: arkansas, Child Abuse, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, taser, Taser Guns | Tags: Dustin Bradshaw, Kiara Medlock, Officer Dustin Bradshaw
Cop Tasers girl for resisting bedtime
The Star
November 20, 2009
The local police chief in Ozark, Arkansas is standing behind one of his officers who tasered a 10-year-old girl who was refusing to go to bed.
The bizarre story is laid out in a police incident report obtained by website The Smoking Gun.
Officer Dustin Bradshaw was called to the home by a woman complaining that her daughter was being unruly and refusing to go to sleep. Bradshaw wrote that when he arrived at the home, he found Kiara Medlock “balled up in (sic) the floor crying and screaming.”
After watching her mother attempt to get Kiara into the bathtub with little success, Bradshaw took the girl into the living room and threatened her with jail. That didn’t settle things down. At some point, Bradshaw claims Kiara’s mother told him to “taser her if I needed to.”
Bradshaw then tried to handcuff Kiara. But he couldn’t manage that either.
To hear Bradshaw tell it, he was now in the midst of a full-on brawl on the living-room floor with Kiara, a Grade 5 student. The 65-pounder was “verbally combative … struck me with her legs and feet in the groin,” Bradshaw wrote.
That’s when he reached for his holster and delivered a “very very (sic) brief drive stun to her back with my taser.”
Unsurprisingly, Kiara’s struggling stopped immediately. Bradshaw then cuffed her and carried her to his squad car, since she could no longer walk.
The incident hit the news when Kiara’s father, Anthony Medlock, took exception. Medlock does not live with Kiara’s mother.
“I want to know how the heck in God’s green earth can they get away with this … If you can’t pick the kid up and take her to your car, handcuff her, then I don’t think you need to be an officer,” Medlock told local Ozark 40/29 news. He said his daughter has shown signs of emotional issues, but she “doesn’t deserve to be treated like a dog.”
The local police chief stood behind Bradshaw and his decision.
“He had no other choice. He had to get the child under control,” said Ozark police Chief Jim Noggle.
No disciplinary action is pending against Bradshaw. However, the Associated Press has reported that the FBI has dispatched agents to Arkansas to investigate.
Medlock said he will attempt to gain sole custody of his daughter.
Filed under: arkansas, Australia, Child Abuse, Oppression, police brutality, police crimes, Police State, suicide, taser, Taser Guns | Tags: sydney
Australia: Man attempting suicide was shot dead by police
A MAN attempting to harm himself in suburban Sydney has died in hospital after being shot by police.
A LONG-serving police sergeant was equipped with a Taser when she used a gun to shoot a man in suburban Sydney, police say.
The officer, who has 21 years service with NSW Police, shot the 36-year-old man once at a home on Wangee Road in Lakemba about 8.50am (AEDT) this morning.
The man later died in hospital, but Assistant Commissioner Stuart Wilkins could not confirm if his death was the result of the gunshot or self-inflicted injuries suffered during the incident.
Officers had been called to the address after reports that the man was attempting to harm himself.
“The officer, the sergeant, involved was armed with a Taser at the time and is Taser trained,” Mr Wilkins told reporters at the scene
“Upon arrival police found the man attempting self-harm,” police said.
“There was a confrontation between the man and police where the man was subsequently shot by attending officers.”
The man was taken to Canterbury Hospital, where he later died.
A crime scene has been established at the house as police from Marrickville begin an independent investigation of the shooting.
Filed under: michican, Oppression, police brutality, police crimes, taser, Taser Guns | Tags: Lansing Police department, Mark Alley, Michigan State Police, Rocky Allred, ryan smith
Lansing cop suspended for Tasering a cuffed suspect
Freep
November 13, 2009
A police officer who Tasered a man after the man had been handcuffed and subdued was suspended without pay for two weeks for violating department policies and procedures, officials said Thursday.
Lansing Police Chief Mark Alley said the incident began early Aug. 16 after police responded to a call of a dispute between Rocky Allred, 43, and a former girlfriend.
Alley said there was a scuffle between Allred and Officer Ryan Smith, a two-year veteran, and that Allred head-butted Smith while Smith tried to handcuff him.
Two other officers subdued and handcuffed Allred, Alley said, and Smith then used his Taser on Allred, causing him to fall to the ground.
According to Lansing Police Department documents, Allred had injuries to his face, including a broken jaw and chipped tooth, and required eight stitches to his chin.
Various charges against Allred later were dismissed.
After an investigation by Michigan State Police, the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office determined there was no criminal wrongdoing, officials said.
But the department’s Internal Affairs Unit found that Smith “acted outside” the department’s policies and procedures.
Filed under: florida, Oppression, police brutality, police crimes, Police State, taser, Taser Guns | Tags: jerald ard, officer jerald ard
Florida Cop Does a Drive-by-Tasing, then Runs Over Suspect
Filed under: 1st amendment, ADS, civil disobedience, civil liberties, civil rights, Dictatorship, Dissent, domestic terror, domestic terrorism, Empire, Fascism, free speech, health and environment, human rights, militarization, Military, Military Industrial Complex, military weapons, mlitary, Nazi, nazi germany, Oppression, Pentagon, police brutality, Police State, Protest, riot squads, State Sponsored Terrorism, super weapons, swat, Taser Guns, urban warfare, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: Thermal Laser gun, Thermal Laser System, Thermal Laser weapon
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.
Filed under: California, disabled, federal crimes, humiliation, Oppression, police abuse, police brutality, police crimes, Police State, taser, Taser Guns | Tags: Gregory Williams, John Pinnegar, Merced Police Department
Legless man: Cops tasered me just to be ‘downright nasty’
David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Raw Story
September 22, 2009
A wheelchair-bound, legless man in Merced, California, says police officers tasered him twice, pushed him out of his wheelchair and left him handcuffed in broad daylight naked from the waist down before arresting him on charges that would never be pressed.
According to the Merced Sun-Star, the Merced Police Department is now investigating two officers who responded to a domestic disturbance call that resulted in 40-year-old Gregory Williams spending six days in jail without charges.
Several witnesses back up Williams’ claims, the newspaper reports. The paper obtained a short, grainy video that appears to show Williams, naked from the waist down, sitting handcuffed outside his apartment complex.
The Sun-Star writes:
[A]lthough the two lead arresting officers are white, and Williams is black, it remains unknown whether race was a factor in the incident. Those two officers remain on duty.
Williams said the officers never used any racial epithets toward him. Although he does believe race and class played a role in his arrest, he also feels the police just wanted to be “downright nasty” to him. “They did what they did because they can get away with it,” he said. “They’ve been doing it so long, it doesn’t matter who they do it to. They just think they can get away with it.”
[A]lthough the two lead arresting officers are white, and Williams is black, it remains unknown whether race was a factor in the incident. Those two officers remain on duty.
Williams said the officers never used any racial epithets toward him. Although he does believe race and class played a role in his arrest, he also feels the police just wanted to be “downright nasty” to him. “They did what they did because they can get away with it,” he said. “They’ve been doing it so long, it doesn’t matter who they do it to. They just think they can get away with it.”
Filed under: Child Abuse, florida, human rights, police brutality, police crimes, Police State, taser, taser death, Taser Guns, taser international | Tags: jordan chusid, stanley harlan
Mom Watched Son Get Tasered To Death
Police draw guns on wrong student
School Security Goon Crushes Free Speech: ‘This Ain’t America No More’
Filed under: Dissent, health and environment, police abuse, police brutality, Police State, Protest, taser, Taser Guns | Tags: Extended Range Electronic Projectile, police taser abuse, taser abuse, taser international, Taser X26, XREP
Taser Bullets Would Shock Suspects For 5 Minutes
New Scientist
August 26, 2009
THE manufacturer of the Taser stun gun is sparking new controversy with the commercial launch of a long-range version that can be fired from a 12-bore shotgun.
Government-funded tests on initial versions of the new Extended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP) have revealed possible health risks to people on the receiving end, New Scientist has learned. The manufacturer, Taser International of Scottsdale, Arizona, says the issue has been addressed in redesigned devices, but these have yet to be independently tested.
Unlike the current Taser X26, which fires darts attached to short wires, the XREP is wire-free. Its projectile, the size of a shotgun cartridge, is designed to pierce the target’s skin and contains battery-powered circuits that deliver a debilitating shock. It has a range of 20 metres or more, compared with 5 metres for previous Tasers.
A team led by Cynthia Bir, a trauma injury specialist at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, found that some of the 275 XREP cartridges that Taser supplied for testing last year were capable of delivering an electric shock for more than 5 minutes, rather than the 20 seconds of shocking current they are supposed to generate. Previous Taser stun guns shock for only 5 seconds per discharge, though that can be repeated.
Bir’s team reported their findings at a conference on non-lethal weapons in Ettlingen, Germany, in May. Steve Wright of Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK, who has studied electric shock weapons, says Bir’s report that the device can carry on shocking for 5 minutes is worrying. The effects of prolonged shocking are not known, he says, but the finding raises concerns about the potential damage to a victim’s mental health.
Filed under: California, civil liberties, civil rights, human rights, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, taser, Taser Guns | Tags: Folsom
Man tasered just sitting on his porch
Filed under: Child Abuse, civil liberties, civil rights, Conditioning, human rights, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, taser, Taser Guns | Tags: Onondaga, Onondaga County sheriffs deperament, salina, Sean Andrews
Minivan Mom Tasered In Front Of Her Kids
John O’Brien
The Post-Standard
August 13, 2009
In January, an Onondaga County sheriff’s deputy pulled over Audra Harmon, who had two of her kids with her in her minivan. A routine traffic stop escalated quickly.
The deputy, Sean Andrews, accused her of talking on her cell phone. She said she could prove him wrong.
He said she was speeding. She denied it and got out of the van. He told her to get back in. She did, then he ordered her back out.
He yanked her out by the arm, knocked her down with two Taser shots and charged her with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. His rationale on the disorderly conduct charge: She obstructed traffic when she got out of the van. The speeding accusation: going 50 mph in a 45-mph zone.
The scene along Hopkins Road in Salina on the afternoon of Jan. 31 was captured by a camera on the dashboard of Andrews’ patrol car. Harmon, 38, says the video is proof of police brutality.
She plans to sue the sheriff’s office today, claiming Andrews was improperly trained in the use of his Taser. It’s not supposed to be used to take down people who pose no threat, she said.
Filed under: army, big pharma, Conditioning, Continuity of Government, Eugenics, FEMA, forced vaccinations, Genocide, h1n1, h1n1 clinic, h1n1 vaccine, h5n1, health and environment, influenza, Maine, mandatory detention, mandatory vaccinations, Martial Law, Media, medical industrial complex, militarization, Military, national guard, NORTHCOM, Oppression, Pandemic Influenza, pandemic virus, Pentagon, pepper spray, Police State, Population Control, portland, Posse Comitatus, Propaganda, psychological operations, Psyops, riot, Robert Gates, soldiers, swine flu, swine flu pandemic, swine flu vaccine, Taser Guns, Troops, u.s. military, u.s. soldiers, Vaccine, virus pandemic | Tags: Continuity of Government Planning, continuity of Operations, COOP, Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, paris, Victor Renuart
Maine TV Station Airs Report on National Guard and Flu Pandemic Riots
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
August 14, 2009
WMTW, a television station in Portland, Maine, owned by Hearst, has produced a slick propaganda piece as part of an emerging effort to stampede people into submitting to a toxic and cancer virus flu vaccine this autumn.
On Thursday, Steve Watson reported on a National Guard “riot scenario” exercise conducted at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris, Maine. The school was chosen as a distribution site for the H1N1 flu vaccine by state officials. “The National Guardsmen will take on the roles of panicked citizens and military police and practice what they would do, such as using tear gas, in the case of a riot,” the Sun Journal reported on August 13.
Sgt. Skip Mowatt of the Paris Police Department told WMTW 8 desperate citizens — arriving without proper ID or living outside the designated area — may overwhelm local police and engage in violence in an effort to get their soft kill vaccination. In such a situation, the television station reports, the police in Paris would team up with the National Guard to baton, pepper spray, and tase rioters.
In late July, the Pentagon said it will establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a pandemic. The plan calls for all branches of the military to team up with FEMA. CNN reported on July 29 that the proposal is awaiting final approval from Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Northern Command’s Gen. Victor Renuart. The Pentagon, however, often announces plans after it has already moved to implement them. “Orders to deploy actual forces would be reviewed later, depending on how much of a health threat the flu poses this fall,” CNN reported.
“Much of the groundwork for the intervention of the military has already been established,” writes Michel Chossudovsky, who notes that “regional teams” have already been established under NORTHCOM, which has been involved in preparedness training and planning in the case of a flu pandemic. “The pandemic is being presented to public opinion as an issue of National Security, with a view to triggering the militarization of civilian institutions in blatant violation of the Posse Comitatus Act,” Chossudovsky noted in an earlier article (Martial Law and the Avian Flu Pandemic).
As Infowars reported on August 6 and investigative journalist Wayne Madsen confirmed on the Alex Jones Show earlier this week, an international conference on the coming flu pandemic will be held in Washington next week. Breakout sessions detailed in a brochure for the conference include discussions on mass fatality planning, business continuity planning, and COOP or Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government Planning. Additional sessions cover enforced quarantines, mass vaccinations, and how to “control and diffuse social unrest and public disorder.” In short, how best to implement martial law.
National Guard Might Take Over Police Duties in Alabama
Homeland Security Orders Mandatory Quarantines – A Pretext For FEMA Camps & Forced Vaccinations
Filed under: alzheimers, Britain, Dissent, domestic terror, domestic terrorism, england, european union, free speech, london, ohio, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Protest, taser, Taser Guns, United Kingdom, virginia, War On Terror, We Are Change, wyoming | Tags: Virginia Dodson, Whitehall
POLICE BRUTALITY: 84-Year-Old Elderly Woman With Alzheimers Gets Bodyslammed by Police
Huliq News
August 10, 2009
First, it should be noted that Virginia Dodson, 84, was indeed wielding a knife when confronted by police. However, the frail Alzheimer’s patient was doing so because she had an Alzheimer’s-related dementia attack and used a knife to cut herself out of her seatbelt.
The incident occurred on the night of August 1st, at a Whitehall, Ohio Wal-Mart store. Left alone in the car by her daughter, Virginia Dodson couldn’t remember why she was sitting alone in the car, and panicked. In that state, she was no longer able to remember how to unbuckle her seatbelt, and thus used a steak knife to cut herself out.
One has to wonder why she was left in the car, knowing she has Alzheimer’s, with a steak knife available.
A woman, acting disoriented in a parking lot, holding a knife? Police were called, as you would expect. According to reports, Dodson did not drop the weapon when asked to, and a police officer disarmed her by using a pretty familiar move, twisting her arm so as to bodyslam her to the pavement.
Now, while some have said, why didn’t they simply grab the knife away from her, if someone’s waving a knife around, it’s not easy to grab without getting cut yourself. On the other hand, you can imagine how such an event looks. In fact, you can see it here.
The real culprit in this is the caregiver, who should never have left Virginia in the car alone. However, you can see after the incident that since the officer was white, albeit a woman, the situation quickly deteriorated and was given racial overtones from those witnessing it.
UK Police Call Truth Activists Potential Terrorists For Filming People In Uniform
Filed under: California, civil liberties, civil rights, human rights, oakland, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, taser, Taser Guns, wisconsin | Tags: Margaret Hiebing, Oakland A's, thomas bruso
Cops Taser Old Man For Sitting In Wrong Seat At Baseball Game
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, August 7, 2009
Yet another video has emerged of cops tasering someone for sitting in the wrong seat at a sports event. The victim this time was an old man attending an Oakland Athletics baseball game in Oakland California.
The man tased by cops was 62-year-old Thomas Bruso, who apparently was sitting in the wrong seat and drinking little bottles of vodka. Police claimed that the man was not “complying” with attempts to arrest him so the crowd was cleared and he was tasered from behind.
Another man is seen being pushed down the stairs as the situation escalates.
“While the man is clearly uncooperative and perhaps belligerent, it is unclear why a shot of 50,000 volts was needed,” comments Constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley.
As the incident unfolded an observer in the crowd commented, “C’mon, take it easy on him….I can’t believe you guys tased him.”
“This individual is not a small person,” said Ofc. Jeff Thomason. “He is 6-foot-1, 280 pounds, so getting in a fight with an individual like this is not in the officer’s best interest.”
However, as the video shows, the cops attempted to arrest the man for barely a minute before resorting to using the taser. The man was resisting arrest but he was not in a “fight” with the cops as Thomason implies.
This is not the first time that police have deployed a taser on someone for sitting in the wrong seat at a sports event.
In a far more disturbing case last year, Wisconsin police were caught on camera tasering a 54-year-old woman at a football game in Madison.
Margaret Hiebing, a veteran Badger season ticket holder, was ejected from the Camp Randall stadium during the Oct. 11 game against Penn State after she was found sitting in the wrong seat, reported WKOW 27 News.
Hiebing had taken a different seat because someone else had occupied her usual place at the packed game.
When police approached Mrs Hiebing she explained the situation and refused to leave. Onlookers began to berate the cops after one of them reportedly threatened Hiebing with pepper spray.
One witness filmed the altercation on a cell phone, evidence which would later dispel initial police claims that Hiebing was causing an obstruction by sitting in the aisle. Police then forced Hiebing face down on the ground and tased her on the back of the leg, confining her to a wheelchair because she was unable to walk out of the stadium.
Both these cases, and hundreds more that have occurred down the years, illustrate that the taser, far from being a cop’s last line of defense against a dangerous individual, is being used as a torture device for the purposes of pain compliance – merely forcing the victim to submit to the officer’s demands whether they pose a physical threat to the cop or not.
“Do You Have No Compassion In Your Life?”
Filed under: Child Abuse, civil liberties, civil rights, Conditioning, florida, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, taser, Taser Guns | Tags: grandpa tasered, pregnant woman tasered
Police Taser Pregnant Mother and Grandpa
Florida Police Caught on Camera Conspiring to Lie and Frame Woman for Accident
Filed under: Child Abuse, civil liberties, civil rights, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, taser, Taser Guns
New Taser Can Fire Three Times in a Row
Filed under: 1984, army, Big Brother, biometrics, Control Grid, Darpa, microchips, Military, Military Industrial Complex, Oppression, Pentagon, Police State, Posse Comitatus, RFID, robot, Science and technology, super weapons, Surveillance, Taser Guns, Troops, uav, urban warfare, Verichip | Tags: Future Combat Systems, Multi-Robot Pursuit System, soldiers, Steve Wright, u.s. soldiers
Packs Of Robots Will Hunt Uncooperative Humans
New Scientist
October 23, 2008
The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors to provide a “Multi-Robot Pursuit System” that will let packs of robots “search for and detect a non-cooperative human”.
One thing that really bugs defence chiefs is having their troops diverted from other duties to control robots. So having a pack of them controlled by one person makes logistical sense. But I’m concerned about where this technology will end up.
Given that iRobot last year struck a deal with Taser International to mount stun weapons on its military robots, how long before we see packs of droids hunting down pesky demonstrators with paralysing weapons? Or could the packs even be lethally armed? I asked two experts on automated weapons what they thought – click the continue reading link to read what they said.
Both were concerned that packs of robots would be entrusted with tasks – and weapons – they were not up to handling without making wrong decisions.
Steve Wright of Leeds Metropolitan University is an expert on police and military technologies, and last year correctly predicted this pack-hunting mode of operation would happen. “The giveaway here is the phrase ’a non-cooperative human subject’,” he told me:
We can also expect such systems to be equipped with human detection and tracking devices including sensors which detect human breath and the radio waves associated with a human heart beat. These are technologies already developed.”
What do you make of this? Are we letting our militaries run technologically amok with our tax dollars? Or can robot soldiers be programmed to be even more ethical than human ones, as some researchers claim?
Filed under: 1st amendment, 2008 Election, Animal Abuse, animal cruelty, Anti-War, Chicago, Dissent, free speech, Iraq, IVAW, John McCain, Oklahoma, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Protest, riot, sarah palin, Taser Guns, US Constitution, veterans | Tags: Hofstra University, iraq war veterans, Nassau County Hospital, Nick Morgan, police horseback, salem police
Veterans Trampled And Crushed By Police On Horses
Indy Bay
October 17, 2008
One hour before the final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, fourteen members of IVAW marched in formation to Hofstra University to present questions for the candidates. IVAW had requested permission from debate moderator Bob Schieffer to ask their questions during the debate but got no response.
The contingent of veterans in dress uniforms and combat uniforms attempted to enter the building where the debate was to be held in order to ask their questions but were turned back by police. The IVAW members at the front of the formation were immediately arrested, and others were pushed back into the crowd by police on horseback. Several members were injured, including former Army Sergeant Nick Morgan who suffered a broken cheekbone when he was trampled by police horses before being arrested.
Puppycide in Oklahoma
Police drag protesters away from Palin motorcade
Cop Choke Slams Unarmed Youth
http://thehill.com/index2.php?option=..=0&Itemid=70
Man dies after Chicago police use taser on him
http://www.chicagobreakingnews..eportedly-use-taser-on-west-side.html
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Tasering of mom with baby ‘necessary,’ police say
Gerry Bellett
Vancouver Sun
September 29, 2008
Vancouver police are defending a decision by officers to Taser a 16-year-old mother who wouldn’t hand her baby over to social workers last Monday, saying the officers were afraid to engage in a tug of war with the mother for what they said was a critically ill baby.
However, the great-grandmother of one-month-old Taige said Friday the baby boy was not critically ill.
Doreen Duncan said she saw the baby and his parents — her grandson Scott Michell, 17, and Misha Peterson, 16, — the night before the Taser incident.
“They came to my house and I fed the baby and Misha burped him and they were real happy,” Duncan said.
“The baby was born with a minor brain condition and they’d checked him out the week before, and the baby was fine. They were told that a scan would be done when the baby gets older and other than that, everything was normal,” she said.
Police spokeswoman Const. Jana McGuinness said social workers had come to apprehend the child so he could be taken to hospital and called for police assistance when the mother refused to give the baby up.
“Our members found it necessary to Taser a mentally distraught teenager to save the life of her baby,” McGuinness said.
“They felt it was critical for them to intervene as they were afraid the child might be smothered, and they applied the Taser to her arm and upper back and she released the child,” she said.
“We couldn’t risk a tug of war or a physical struggle with the mother over the child,” McGuinness said, adding that the officers were afraid such a struggle would injure the baby.
Duncan said Michell and Peterson had known each other for three years and that Peterson was living in a Vancouver group home. Michell had quit school after the baby was born and had found a job, she said.
It appears that when Peterson didn’t report back to the group home with the baby Sunday evening, social workers and the police came looking for her, Duncan said.
Cops Gone Too Far
Unruly behaviour ’may be illness’
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20..ness-6323e80.html
Denver Police Union Shirt Makes Fun Of DNC Protesters: ’We get up early to beat the crowds’
http://mparent7777-1.livejournal.com/1917138.html
Police Kill Really Small Dog, Claim it Threatened Them
http://stopthedrugwar…really_small_dog_cla?print
Filed under: 4th amendment, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Taser Guns, US Constitution | Tags: hon. bobby haddock, jesse faniel buckley, Youtube
Hand-cuffed suspect tasered for refusing to sit in cop car
When judge doesn’t get her way, Taser video gets published on YouTube
http://mparent7777-1.livejournal.com/1863614.html
Filed under: education, education system, nanny state, New York, NYPD, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, smoking ban, Taser Guns | Tags: Imam Morales
Diabetic ‘bashed by cops’ after falling ill
News.com.au
September 23, 2008
A MAN in the middle of a diabetic episode was beaten by police who thought he was trying to resist arrest after a short car chase, according to a lawsuit filed today.
It is alleged that 59-year-old Ernest Griglen was beaten so badly during the June 15 incident he needed surgery to remove part of his brain, US television network WDIV reported.
According to the lawsuit filed by his wife Pamela and lawyer Arnold Reed, Mr Griglen was driving along a freeway near the US city of Detroit when he experienced a diabetic hypoglycaemic episode.
They said the episode forced Mr Griglen to swerve between lanes before he was pulled over by police who thought he was drunk.
“They began to hit him, punch him and throw him to the ground,” Mr Reed said.
WDIV said two different reports of the incident was filed by police.
One report said Griglen was pursued along the freeway by police because of a domestic violence complaint.
The other report said he became “combative” and was forced to the ground by officers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a..ck-people-quitting.html
Police roundup parents for their childrens chronic absences
http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?..&dept_id=33380&rfi=6
Filed under: 1st amendment, 2008 Election, Abu Ghraib, Anti-War, brazil, Britain, civil liberties, civil rights, demonstration, Detainee, Dictatorship, Dissent, Empire, Europe, european union, Extraordinary Rendition, Fascism, free press, free speech, Guantanamo, human rights, london, Minneapolis, Nazi, Oppression, pain compliance, police brutality, rendition, RNC, Taser Guns, Toll Roads, Torture, United Kingdom, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: Delaware, Elliot Hughes, minneapolis police department, peter willimae, queensland, queensland police department, Ramsey County, ramsey county jail, Rio de Janeiro, st. paul police, st. paul police department
RNC police brutality and torture victims speak out
Queensland Police Brutality
Aiken County Sheriff stops group for saggy pants
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080916/twl-rio-cops-kill-three-people-a-day-3fd0ae9.html
Cop who arrested TV cameraman has been fired
http://kob.com/article/stories/S578979.shtml?cat=500
Delaware Bridge cops want toll cheats’ money, or their cars
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/186/story/260008.html
Filed under: 1984, 1st amendment, 2008 Election, Abu Ghraib, Anti-War, civil liberties, civil rights, demonstration, Detainee, DHS, Dictatorship, Dissent, Empire, Extraordinary Rendition, Fascism, free speech, Guantanamo, Homeland Security, human rights, Minneapolis, Nazi, Oppression, pain compliance, police brutality, Police State, Protest, rendition, RNC, stasi, stasi tactics, Taser Guns, Torture, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: Elliot Hughes, minneapolis police department, Ramsey County, ramsey county jail, st. paul police, st. paul police department
RNC Protester Tortured in Ramsey County Jail
Elliot Hughes recounts allegations of torture while being detained in Ramsey County Jail. Hughes was detained during an RNC08 protest after reportedly colliding with a police bicycle on accident. …
Filed under: missouri, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Taser Guns | Tags: columbia, columbia police, Officer Sean Dutton, Phillip McDuffy, Sgt. Dan Beckman, suicidal
Suicidal man falls 15 ft off a bridge after cops taser him
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