January 7th, 2010 Wednesday January 06, 2010 21:28
Report by George Galloway
The Viva Palestina Convoy, and after facing ongoing Egyptian rejection and violent attacks by the Egyptian security forces, started on Wednesday evening to roll into the besieged Gaza Strip.
Thousands of Palestinians, carrying flowers and flags, gathered in the streets while the convoy continued to move in.
A Press conference [...]
November 18th, 2009 this one goes directly into the “banging forehead” file.
Man trying to harm self shot dead
AAP
November 18, 2009 01:05pm
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 [...]
September 4th, 2009 by Abby Zimet
A year after St. Paul police rounded up and arrested over 200 people who were planning to protest the Republican National Convention – but hadn’t actually done anything yet – 27 plaintiffs filed a class action suit against the city on behalf of all those arrested. Police officers used pepper spray, non-lethal ammunition [...]
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August 4th, 2009 August 3, 7:37 AM · Jim Kouri – Law Enforcement Examiner
There are many police and law enforcement officials who are concerned with the growing trend of using military-experienced mercenaries to train and work with local police officers in the United States, but there [...]
August 3rd, 2009 By Ted Rall
July 31, 2009 “UPS” — NEW YORK—The current national conversation about race and the police reminded me about an incident that occurred when I was in Uzbekistan. As I walked into an apartment complex for an appointment I noticed the decomposing body of a man lying on the side of the road.
“How long [...]
July 30th, 2009 http://tshtf.blogspot.com/
Thursday, July 30, 2009
One has to wonder why people never learn from the lessons of history. Why is it that the rulers and enforcers of laws turn a blind eye to the atrociousness and retributions leveled upon them from days past, justified by the brutality of power madness currently sweeping the landscape? Do they think [...]
July 28th, 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5920359/Taser-unveils-multi-shot-stun-gun.html
Taser International on Monday unveiled a new stun gun which is capable of shocking three people without having to reload.
Published: 8:47PM BST 27 Jul 2009
Older Taser stun guns, widely in use in law enforcement agencies throughout the United States and Britain, have to be reloaded after one shot, which can be a problem for an [...]
July 28th, 2009 http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/police-taser-use-on-disabled-man-justified-because-he-had-an-umbrella/
Alabama police are apparently prepared if Batman’s nemesis The Penguin and his weapon-umbrella army ever attack.
“Officers who used pepper spray and a Taser to remove a man from a store bathroom found out only later he was deaf and mentally disabled and didn’t understand they wanted him to open the door, police said Tuesday,” the [...]
July 21st, 2009 Taser set petrol sniffer ablaze: police
July 21, 2009 – 4:10PM
The WA Police Commissioner will not change the force’s stun gun policy after a man caught fire when he was shot by a Taser in a remote Aboriginal community yesterday.
Karl O’Callaghan said stun guns were preferable to officers drawing their firearms, adding that circumstances could [...]
