Filed under: human rights, illinois, Oppression, police brutality, police crimes, Police State, taser | Tags: james mandarino, police beating, ronald bell
Police Brutality: Cop Relentlessly Beats Unarmed Driver
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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
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Robots go to war: American insect Terminators
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs
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.
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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: 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: 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
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