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Cop tasers student with yellow taser. Other cop swings baton at students.
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This man has been violated. I have followed this case from its beginning, and can say without doubt that it is the one event that opened my eyes and left me with a need to open the eyes of others.
This absolutely wiped away any trust I had in law enforcement, and any faith I had in the justice system.
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=68509828-1566-472d-9a68-79f43b522950
Ashamedly, I live in North Little Rock and, as a taxpayer, I contribute to the payroll of the North Little Rock Police Department. I'm sorry Tracy Ingle.
****Free the WM3****This man has been violated. I have followed this case from its beginning, and can say... more
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Arkansas cop uses Taser on 10-year-old girl
By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 -- 10:12 pm
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It was an encounter one Ozark 10-year-old will likely never forget.
Called to a home to help control an allegedly "unruly child," an Ozark police officer was reportedly told by the girl's mother that he could use the electric weapon to subdue her, according to 40/29 News Arkansas.
However, the girl supposedly kicked the officer in the groin when he approached. "He had no other choice [but to Taser her]," Ozark Police Choief Jim Noggle reportedly said. "He had to get the child under control."
According to the Associated Press, the officer's name is Dustin Bradshaw. His aggressive approach to dealing with a child has the girl's father enraged.
"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," Anthony Medlock reportedly said.Arkansas cop uses Taser on 10-year-old girl
By Stephen C. Webster
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OZARK, Ark. (AP) -- Ozark Police Chief Jim Noggle says one of his officers used a Taser on a 10-year-old girl who was combative when the officer tried to get the her into a patrol car to be taken to a youth shelter.
Noggle said Tuesday that officer Dustin Bradshaw went to the girl's home after her mother called police.
According to a report filed by Bradshaw on Thursday, the officer found the girl on the floor of the house screaming and crying. She refused to follow her mother's instructions and the mother told Bradshaw to use his Taser.
Bradshaw carried the girl to the living room and told her she was going to jail, according to the report. The girl was violently kicking, the report said, and struck Bradshaw in the groin with her legs and feet. The report said Bradshaw administered a "very, very brief" stun with the Taser, put the girl in handcuffs and carried her to his patrol car. She was taken to the Western Arkansas Youth Shelter in Cecil.
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Information from: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, http://www.arkansasonline.com
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)OZARK, Ark. (AP) -- Ozark Police Chief Jim Noggle says one of his officers used a... more
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How many more times are we going to see cops abuse their power and get away with the same excuse? How can we, as tax payers, continue this if no one is going to police them? How come the President talks big when someone he knows gets abused "Harvard Professor Gates" but doesn't act the same way when kids are getting arrested and beat up for no reason?
I know this country has problems and rouge cops are not the President's first concern, but there has to be someone in our Government that has seen these videos and wonder, why are we still letting cops get away with half the crap they do?
I would like your opinion on this, because there's nothing educated to say when cops abuse their power and claim self defense when they beat, taser or shoot someone that's on the ground or handcuffed already.
Let me know...
PS, please look at the 3:55 mark on the video and tell me what you think...How many more times are we going to see cops abuse their power and get away with the... more
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OZARK, Mo. -- A family from Branson wants answers about what happened to their son that left him hospitalized. Early Saturday morning, police found Mace Hutchinson, 16, underneath the Highway F overpass over U.S. 65.
Mace ended up in intensive care at a hospital. His parents believe the actions of Ozark police officers contributed to his injuries and slowed doctors’ abilities to speed his recovery.
“We called the police. My wife was afraid he was going to get ran over or hit,” said witness Doug Messersmith.
Messersmith and his wife were the last known people to see 16-year-old boy walking, shortly before their phone call to 911.
“He looked a little agitated but, other than that, he didn't look to be falling down drunk or anything like that,” he said.
By the time officers arrived, the teen was off the 30-foot overpass, lying on the shoulder below along U.S. 65, with no good explanation as to how he got there.
“According to the doctors, all injuries are consistent with a fall,” said his aunt, Samantha.
Mace's dad believes it was just that, a fall, not a jump. The question is why.
“They tested his system. He was clean of drugs and alcohol. We don't know why unless just being in shock and the whole thing in itself caused him to forget everything,” said Hutchinson.
His aunt says he is undergoing major surgery for a broken back and broken heel. While he was lying on the ground, she wonders why Ozark police used an electric stun gun on him up to 19 times.
“I'm not an officer, but i don't see the reason for ‘Tasering’ somebody laying there with a broken back. I don't consider that a threat,”
His dad says the use of the stun gun delayed what would have been immediate surgery by two days.
“The ‘Tasering’ increased his white blood cell count and caused him to have a temperature so they could not go into the operation.”
“He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him. He is making incoherent statements; he's also making statements such as, ‘Shoot cops, kill cops,’ things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers,” said Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset.
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Even though this happened last year, I hope people start realizing the reason why our youth and my generation (i'm 33 now) hate cops!!OZARK, Mo. -- A family from Branson wants answers about what happened to their son... more
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Are tasers safe?
The number of in-custody sudden deaths rose dramatically during the first year California law enforcement agencies began using stun guns, raising questions about the safety of the devices, according to a new study at UCSF.
The electronic weapons are intended to be a nonlethal alternative to the gun.
"Tasers are not as safe as thought," said Dr. Byron Lee, one of the cardiologists involved in studying the death rate related to Tasers, the most widely used stun gun. "And if they are used, they should be used with caution."Are tasers safe?
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Wired Science News for Your Neurons Taser Wars: The Real Dangers of Loose Triggers
By Frederik Joelving November 9, 2009 | 8:00 pm | Categories: Tech
Iman Morales didn’t answer the door. As his mother stood waiting outside his one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, she grew increasingly concerned. Lately Morales had been acting erratically and having trouble with his psychiatric medication. Desperation mounting, she called 911.
When the Emergency Service Unit from the New York City Police Department arrived, Morales scrambled out of his apartment onto the fire escape. The stout 35-year old was naked and shouted incoherently. An officer appeared on the fire escape, and Morales retreated to a slim metal ledge over a storefront, where he jabbed at him with a fluorescent light tube.
At that point, Lt. Michael Pigott, a 21-year NYPD veteran, ordered an officer on the ground to fire his stun gun. Morales collapsed and fell 10 feet to the sidewalk, landing on his head. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead on Sept. 24, 2008.
Morales’ death, a video of which was posted on the internet, raised a national media storm and fueled criticisms of law enforcement’s use of stun guns. During the past decade, police departments all over the United States have ramped up use of Tasers, the popular name for stun guns produced by Taser International. By June 2009, the company said it had sold Tasers to more than 14,200 law enforcement agencies in over 40 countries, and that 29 of the 33 largest U.S. cities now deploy the weapon.
According to Taser International, its technology is relatively safe — the official terminology is “less lethal”— and decreases injury and death among both police officers and arrestees. But not all experts agree. Doctors in particular are concerned about the effects on the heart and brain. And a December report by Amnesty International found that between 2001 and 2008, 334 people died in the U.S. after being Tasered by police. Just last month, a 19-year-old man died after being Tasered by police in San Bernardino, California.
“There is so much controversy because [the Taser] has conquered the market so rapidly,” said Steve Tuttle, vice president of communications for Taser International. “It’s a revolution in law enforcement. And with revolution comes pain.”
Taser International has become notorious for aggressively dismissing health concerns, but on Oct. 12, the company released a training bulletin recommending that officers avoid chest and head shots when possible. Three days later, however, Rick Guibault, vice president of training, said the change had little to do with safety and that the company would continue supporting its customers in lawsuits no matter where the Taser hits.
With no codified rules in place for Taser deployment, police have used it liberally — on children and the elderly, drug addicts and the mentally ill. Around 850,000 criminal suspects have been Tasered in the field, according to the company.
In 2007, the United Nations likened Taser use to torture. That same year the catch phrase “Don’t tase me, bro,” shouted by a student being Tasered by campus police, won a first place among Time magazine’s Top 10 T-shirt Worthy Slogans.
“Using the Taser weapon feels benign,” said Dalia Hashad, director of Amnesty International USA’s Domestic Human Rights Program. “Taser International is very fond of saying that getting shocked with a Taser is similar to receiving a static electricity shock from rubbing your feet on the carpet and then touching the doorknob. It’s that mentality that allows police officers to use the Taser weapon where they would never dream of using a billy club.”
“Unfortunately, there are hundreds of people who never got up again,” she said.
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The Tasers used by law enforcement look like play guns. Instead of a normal muzzle, the plastic weapon has two small cartridge doors. Pull the trigger and the doors pop opeWired Science News for Your Neurons Taser Wars: The Real Dangers of Loose Triggers
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A curious property evident in the discussion of insurrection in the United States is that it gets more respect the further it occurs from home. Anarchists who would never dream of complaining that the Thessaloniki Food not Bombs is being neglected while its members amuse themselves burning banks, who could never conceive of suggesting that the Somali pirates stop seizing ships for ransom in order to start a bike repair collective, have no problem criticizing their own friends and comrades for shortchanging local projects to attend semi-annual mass mobilizations. This is a shame, because a look at the broader picture reveals that summit demos are taking an ongoing toll on the ruling class, even when they are tactically unsuccessful.
Just for starters, any city hosting a summit has to impose de facto martial law for the duration of the meetings. Miles-long steel security fences, bag searches on the subway, black helicopters in the sky, armor-clad riot cops on every corner, among other measures, make a mockery of the myth of "civil rights." By employing such repressive tactics just to keep a few summit delegates from being confronted by those they claim to be helping, authority reveals its true nature, undisguised by the usual lies and propaganda. People who claim that we should abandon summit protests because we can never replicate the WTO (World Trade Organization) riots in Seattle are missing this point. While it's true that the cops will never again allow themselves to be defeated on the street the way they were in Seattle, the things they have to do to win in the short term erode the perceived legitimacy of the entire ruling system in the medium term. If all they had to do was stop the protests they could just shoot the protesters. But since they must also maintain the illusion of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, their problem is complicated immensely. They have no good options, so it's not a matter of whether we will win, only of how.
Their situation becomes all the worse when, after turning the host city into a militarized encampment for a week, the cops can't even stop a few kids in black from breaking windows. The resulting frustration often leads them to attack and arrest defenseless groups and individuals who have minimal connection to the protests, further compounding their problems when the videos hit Youtube. Then to justify their own brutality, the cops make an example of a handful of protest organizers by hitting them with ridiculously inflated charges, usually for actions that most people would consider perfectly innocuous. As an added bonus, the lawsuits generated by blatantly unconstitutional arrests and searches strain city budgets, consume prosecutors' time, and extend their PR nightmare. For authoritarians, the only thing worse than appearing brutal and repressive is appearing brutal and repressive and ineffectual. Cops, by their nature, will fall into this trap every time, as long as we show up and set it for them.
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After training for a few weeks Antonio gets his chance to join the performers in the company. He had recently mentioned to me that he would be interested in doing clowns, he usually worked as sort of an all purpose roadie. We trained some, but then an emergency came up, I was sick and nobody else was available so he got his chance. He was both nervous and excited. This is just one more example of the type of entertainment we provided for a tri-state area. Playful Entertainment Network aka American Dream Talent provided most of this type of entertainment for the area until we had a run in with corrupt local vice officers. We beat them each time in court but finally ran out of money. Check out the rest of our videos for more information and examples of this.After training for a few weeks Antonio gets his chance to join the performers in the... more
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"According to the San Jose Mercury News, Phuong Ho, 20, a student at San Jose State University was brutally beaten by San Jose police when they were called to his home following up on an alleged assault.
The arrest occurred on Sept. 3, 2009 and the video footage was recently released. It was taken by one of Ho’s roommates on his cellular phone and released by Ho’s lawyer.
The video shows Officer Kenneth Siegel hitting Ho repeatedly with a metal baton. Then another officer, Steven Payne, used a Taser device on Ho before the handcuffs were applied.""According to the San Jose Mercury News, Phuong Ho, 20, a student at San Jose State... more
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A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers' conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said.
The video, posted by the San Jose Mercury News on its Web site late Saturday, shows one officer hitting 20-year-old Vietnamese student Phuong Ho with a metal baton more than 10 times, including once on the head. Another officer is seen using his Taser gun on the San Jose State math major.
The final baton strike in last month's incident appears to take place after handcuffs have been attached to Ho's wrists.
Officers arrested Ho on suspicion of assaulting one of his roommates. He was not armed when police arrived and he told the newspaper he didn't resist arrest.
The confrontation began Sept. 3 when Ho's roommate, Jeremy Suftin, put soap on Ho's steak. The two scuffled, and Ho picked up a steak knife, saying that in his home country he would have killed Suftin for doing what he did.
Police were called, and four officers responded.
Officer Kenneth Siegel encountered Ho in the hallway, but couldn't understand the student's accent, police reports said. Ho then ignored a police command to stand still, reports said.
When Ho tried to follow Siegel into his room, officer Steven Payne Jr. moved to handcuff Ho. Payne wrote in his report that he pushed the student into a wall and then forced him to the floor when he resisted being handcuffed.
Ho, who weighs more than 200 lbs., said his glasses fell off. As he went to pick them up, the officers struck him, he said.
Another one of Ho's roommates, Dimitri Masouris, captured the events on his cell phone. An officer can be heard on the video shouting, "Turn over!" Ho can be heard moaning and crying as he's struck.
More @ linkA cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university... more
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A group of San Jose police officers are on the other side of the law, after using what some experts call "excessive force" on an unarmed San Jose student after responding to a roommate dispute.A group of San Jose police officers are on the other side of the law, after using what... more
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