April Griffin, Tasered, Beaten, Child Taken Away and Abused ?

This is a case that was started over two years ago. Griffin attracted a legion of supporters last year with her desperate refusal to accept a judge's order that her son's father be given a chance to share...

Police Tase Suicidal Man on Bridge, CAUSING His Fall, by Mary Neal

On the television shows, don't police talk suicidal people out of dangerous situations?  Well, TV isn't real life, discovered this African American man from Columbia, MO, who was...

Opinion: Austin, It’s Time to Rise Up

"P.O.T.U.S Thursday, July 3, 2008 It’s time to get mad and put the Austin Police Department in their place. They are now planning to pull you over, and if they suspect you’ve been drinking, the police will stick a needle in your arm, and take your blood without a warrant....

Taser Video

One voice on the taser situation - excerpt:I would like to point out how arrogant it is of so many people to claim they know better than the people who actually witnessed the event, to say nothing of those who were involved in it and trained to deal with it. The video tells...

Warsaw questions Mounties' conduct

This may turn out to be one of the most significant instances of citizen reportage since Rodney King:"Tens of thousands of people around the world saw a troubling record of Robert Dziekanski's final moments in a bystander's 10-minute video, which media outlets ranging from...

'Don't taze me, bro'

In typical American entrepreneurial tradition, the "DONT TAZE ME BRO" O-RAMA has hit a the market with amazing speed"The drama recorded on a videocamera and promptly posted on YouTube. But cafepress.com already...

Police report student told them: 'You didn't do anything wrong'

GAINESVILLE - Police have released the incident report detailing the Tasering. The officer who actually Tasered Andrew Meyer wrote in the report that Meyer later told police, "You didn't do anything wrong."Meyer...

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