From the tasering file

[pan]

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/103-11032007-1434893.html

FBI reviewing Tasering of sleeping man; no charges file

The Associated Press

NORTH BRADDOCK, Pa. - Two North Braddock police officers won't face criminal charges for Tasering a man who was asleep at home. But the FBI will review the incident for possible civil rights violations.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. says county police determined Officers Gerard Kraly and Lukas Laeuricia (loo-REE'-see-uh) didn't commit a crime when they Tasered Shawn Hicks, who was sleeping on his couch.

Police came to Hicks home because they were alerted by a silent security alarm at his home about 2 a.m.

Hicks says the officers Tasered him again after he woke up and showed them ID to prove he lived at the home. Hicks' attorney says he will pursue civil action.

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Introducing the Taser/MP3 player

[waldopaper]

aint that cute. these things are $300 and up. call me old-fashioned, but I still like the flanged mace rolled up in a newspaper.

[littleoldme]

Works for me , Waldo, at least you never have to worry about the batteries going dead.

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Another taser death

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Officer's Taser is used on 9 yr old girl

A veteran South Tucson police sergeant is under investigation for firing his stun gun to subdue a handcuffed 9-year-old girl.

At the request of Chief Sixto Molina, the Pima County Sheriff's Department is trying to determine if the sergeant committed a crime when he sent a jolt through the child's body.

The police officer used a Taser on the girl at about 5:30 p.m. May 8, Molina said. The nonlethal weapon uses a pulsating electrical charge to immobilize a person for several seconds.

"I'll be the first to admit, you've got a veteran sergeant Tasing a 9-year-old girl, it doesn't look good," said Molina.

The sergeant was one of at least two officers who responded to a call from the Arizona Children's Home, a school for special needs children, on South Eighth Avenue, he said.

"It had to do with a runaway from the institution," the chief said. He declined to provide further details.

The school could not be reached for comment late Monday. But Molina said that the facility is the source of frequent calls to his 25-person department.

Molina said one officer initially responded to the call from the school. That officer requested assistance from another officer and specifically asked that the second officer bring a Taser.

He said the girl was handcuffed at the time the weapon was used.

The sergeant who used the hand-held Taser remains on duty. His name is not being released while the investigation is under way.

"It didn't involve an integrity issue," Molina said. "The officer made a decision to do what he thought he needed to do."

Deputy Dawn Barkman, a spokeswoman with the Sheriff's Department, confirmed a review of the incident is under way but said she had no further details.

The results of the probe will be forwarded to the Pima County Attorney's Office.

"They'll have to present it to us to see if any criminal charges are warranted," said County Attorney's Office spokesman Dan Benavides.

Sgt. Dan Snyder, a South Tucson police spokesman, said the investigation could be complete by the end of the week.

[waldopaper]

Here's another one on the pile... plop. This is getting creepy. While I'm here...
Been dinking around on OEN http://www.opednews.com/... and will probably put up an rbc group there and link to it here... also at the tech school... a cyber-rbc group... each time with a link to the others. A friend is starting a project called TRIAAC... Three Rivers Institute of Afrikan Art & Culture... which I believe has something in common with rbc... so I want to run this by YOU:

The rbc meme... grew to represent a reaction to the "faith-based community," and right now... the churches are the only network/ infrastructure I can see somewhat independent of state or "employer." Rather than be in opposition to the "faith" network... we are an alternative or a supplement... with the core being: Keep warm, dry, hydrated, fed, clean and happy.These things will be of real concern as the "economy" implodes.

OK... taken up enough space here... and off track of the Taser Watch. Relevancy: I fear that Murrikans are going to react much the same way the Germans did after 1. getting asses kicked in an imperialistic war and 2. eating out of garbage cans. I believe this taser shit is only a symptom.

[BO]

"I believe this taser shit is only a symptom."

A symptom of the collapse in morality that's brought about the collapse in everything else.

It ain't that the truth isn't out there, it's that the truth doesn't matter anymore. Nor does honor and personal integrity.

Personally, I look around, and all I see is slime. We're beyond eating out of garbage cans...we live in one. And I'm damn tired of sharing my space with maggots.

[waldopaper]

damn tired of sharing my space with maggots.>>

that's what the network... the underground railroad... is about. Yesterday Zeke asked me how many Germans I thought resisted the Nazis. I pulled a number out of my butt (although somewhat accurate, methinks)... from active resistance to Švejking... no more than ten thousand. "That's a lot," he said. Well... yes and no. A lot considering... not enough to stop it. I don't think there are enough to stop it now.

Using the same math... I would have no trouble believing that there are at least 50,000 of us in the US... at least 50 million world-wide... but we're all over the place... I DO think we can help each other survive what's ahead. The erosion in morality has been engineered by design, I believe... so the fatties can hire half of us to kill the other half. That's the real danger. I propose setting up a network in cyber-space as a model for the future underground railroad in real-space.

I probably would have smoked the 12-gauge months ago if you guys hadn't convinced me that everybody in the US (and around the world) isn't a fucking idiot.

[curt]

no idiots o'er here..........

nope. None I can see.

Rail Roadz. Lotza Rail Roadz. Trackz in the sand / snow. Lotza trakz. Loadz ovem.

[Mouse]

There is the necessary blinkeredness that allows people to continue playing their part in the charade, and makes them bite so sharply if nudged. They have to keep their focus on the pillars of sand in the wind.
Not so many find the time to consider the ins and outs of things, being locked into the superficial, status and speed. Ah, ssssss. Not to mention peddling backwards, keeping one's head above water and refusing to look in the shadows.

He said no one in Minneapolis has died directly from a Taser. The Hennepin County medical examiner found a Minneapolis man shot with a Taser died from cocaine abuse, heart disease and emphysema in 2003. The next year, another Minneapolis man with heart disease and hypertension died from a heart attack after he was shot with a Taser. Doesn't seem very rational that the medical examiners are finding background conditions to be the cause of death rather than the electrical shocks that exacerbate these conditions and bring them to crisis.

[BO]

"I propose setting up a network in cyber-space as a model for the future underground railroad in real-space."

Problem is: The fatties own the network too. There's no safe way to communicate that I know of. If there was, they'd be in trouble and I think they know it. Which is why they passed recent legislation impugning the telcoms.

Yeah, we've got freedom of speech as long as you tip toe around saying what really needs to be done. That's the problem. We should be planning the revolution not wishing that someone else would start it.

[waldopaper]

You aint goin all Weatherman on us now, are ye BO? I think the revolution will take care of itself. The economic shitstorm is in proportions I can't even imagine. Rossi's story about the thousand trillion really popped my cork. Less than 10 years ago (when I was in the "financial services" industry) I learned there was 10 trillion in "derivative" paper circulating... and the gross annual output of the PLANET was valued at 4 trillion. And since then it has multiplied TEN times? Oh fucking deliver me...

But I CAN imagine half of the population being broke and pissed off... and the other half has "jobs" cracking down on the first half and putting them in prison camps. The fatties will have enough truly DANGEROUS fuckers to deal with... wait til those people come back from Eye-rack... ten thousand pissed-off freaked-out Timothy McVeighs. Yowzuh! Bureaucrats and stooges flyin outta blowed up buildings like popcorn. It's up to the poets... the designers... the visionaries to invent the future while the serfs are busy killing each other and lookin for fatties to pop. I think we'd better serve the kids by helping them invent the future rather than poppin fatties... (altho I DO have one in mind... just in case)

And if the grid flickers... or goes dark... then it's Zombie time- and who can even guess where that will go... but talking about people shooting each other for toilet paper aint much of an exaggeration. By then, some kind of railroad is gonna be in place... (hey Pan... what's happening with "Train?") ... some of the more foolish slaves will be following the Yankee army... we the ones who gonna follow the drinkin gourd. And if we to old to make it... we kin show the kids... when the sun come back and the first quail calls... I been singin to my babies bout freedom since they was born... they'll know it when they see it.

We gotta get those young 'uns to look up at the stars.