Truemors
Governors! Mayors! Police Chiefs! Please do something about your police officers whom you have equipped with Taser guns! Evidently, they lack proper training, or these "non-lethal" weapons are malfunctioning - A LOT! There are bodies of 290 folks to testify to this fact, and maybe more. Medical Examiners are being discouraged from attributing deaths of citizens to Taser guns. One Medical Examiner was even ordered by the court to REMOVE Taser references from her autopsy reports. Please train your police force, re-train them, restrain them, or just TAKE AWAY THEIR TOYS!
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OpEdNews
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Tased-Until-Dead--The-Epid-by-Len-Hart-080727-352.html
July 27, 2008
Tased Until Dead: The Epidemic of Taser Crazy Cops
By Len Hart
Since 'Taser' use has become widespread more than 290 people have been killed, possibly murdered, by taser crazy cops. In response to this epidemic of violence, Amnesty International released a statement damning the use of "... tasers to subdue non-compliant or disturbed individuals who do not pose a serious danger to themselves or others." That --I daresay --describes most of the incidents.
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Consider these video reports:
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=ZdCUdR8qNF4& feature=related
Hospital Tasers 66-year-old over a joke
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=0KWXHJNzNwQ 11 Year Old Tasered at School as a 'Last Resort'!!
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=0OnV7e2eNbc& feature=related
Taser Torture of an Ohio Woman 7 Times
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=wxbBG_R7un4& feature=related Taser Torture of an Unarmed 78 yo Man in LAX
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=E4f7YsGqXjs& feature=related
Officers of the law are traditionally called "Peace Officers." Of course, a certain amount of rough stuff is a necessary part of their job. We appreciate all that our police departments do in the interest of law and order. None of us would want to live in a society without brave men and women who serve and protect citizens from culprits who would rape, rob, and kill liberally if they had no fear of aprehension and prosecution. However, our children, elders, and folks just out shopping (for God's sake!) don't need to live in fear of steroid-crazed, Taser-happy police officers who apparently believe the that Tasers are non-lethal weapons. How many more mentally ill citizens and even healthy people must die or suffer needlessly?
Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
Website: http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
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