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Thursday, August 14th, 2008Tom LoBianco | Antiwar activists who were targeted by an undercover state police operation from 2005 to 2006 will ask state investigators Tuesday to expand their probe to learn whether other law enforcement agencies took part in the spying. Members of Pledge of Resistance Baltimore plan to rally in front of the Maryland State Police headquarters in Baltimore County Tuesday afternoon. The agency's surveillance of ...
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Call to crack down on police taser use
Friday, August 8th, 2008By Mark Davis | CIVIL rights advocates have seized on Federal Government plans for legal bans on torture to argue for tighter controls on the use of tasers by police. The Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, said yesterday the Government was taking steps to ratify the optional protocol to the United Nations convention against torture, which would allow international inspectors to visit Australian prisons. He said the Government was also considering making torture ...
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Microwave ray gun controls crowds with noise
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008By David Hambling | A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to beam sounds directly into people's heads. The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) – exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull that can be detected by the ears. A series of pulses can be ...
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Videos of Violent Police Training Appear as Mexico Awaits U.S. Aid
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008By Manuel Roig-Franzia | Videos showing Mexican police learning torture methods appeared on the Internet this week as the country, soon to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. anti-drug aid, is seeking to improve its human rights record. The videos show officers in the city of Leon, about 150 miles northwest of Mexico City, forcing one of ...
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Heart experts warn Tasers deadly
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
By Suzanne Fournier | Tasers can cause fatal cardiac arrest and are even more dangerous if the subject is agitated, stressed and experiencing pain from the high-voltage device, two top Vancouver heart specialists said Tuesday.
Dr. Michael Janusz, a heart surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital and UBC told the Braidwood Inquiry into Taser use Tuesday that "Tasers almost certainly can cause ...
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Officers routinely lied to obtain search warrants
Friday, May 9th, 2008
By STEVE VISSER | A former Atlanta police officer testified Thursday that narcotics officers routinely lied under oath when seeking search warrants a practice that led to police killing a 92-year-old woman.
Former Detective Gregg Junnier told a Fulton County jury that detectives would tell judges that they had verified their informants had bought cocaine from dealers ...
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Police Taser Claims Another Life
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
By Shamus Toomey - Chicago Sun-Times |
A 24-year-old Lake View man died Thursday, five days after suburban Cincinnati police shocked him with a Taser outside a bar there.
Kevin Piskura, 24, of the 800 block of West Fletcher, had been hospitalized since the incident at 2 a.m. Saturday outside a bar in Oxford, Ohio, and he died Thursday afternoon at University Hospital in ...
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China police “shoot two” in village land protest
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
HONG KONG (Reuters) |
Chinese police opened fire during a clash over land use between villagers and employees of China's number two gold miner, killing two and wounding more than 20, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Tuesday.
Beijing, terrified of social unrest ahead of the Olympics in August, has cracked down on recent protests over the arbitrary use of land by powerful local interests.
Ming ...
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Family wants answers after Taser death
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Eyewitness News Indianapolis - The family of a man who died after being stunned with a Taser by police is considering taking legal action. They believe the Taser played a role in his death and plan to sue either the manufacturer or Indianapolis Metro Police. It was after a scuffle with police inside the O'Charley's restaurant on 38th Street Friday night when Henry Orlando Bryant stopped breathing and died. "It's sad. ...
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Police arrest 80 year old anti-war protester
Monday, March 31st, 2008An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War. Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as "graphic anti-war images." Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, ...
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VIDEO: Religio-Fascist thought police at work
Friday, March 28th, 2008The Bible actually as something to say about these people: "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones." (King James Version) Luke: Chapter 17. Verse 2. In other words, turning children into robot-propagandists to serve some wacko political agenda is a sin of the highest order. These are the same morons ...
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On Frontlines in Tibet, Protestors ‘Shot Like Dogs’
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Unconfirmed Reports From Tibet of Dozens of Civilians Killed in Crackdown
The Chinese military is shooting Tibetan demonstrators "like dogs," a Tibetan exile group said Monday, firing "indiscriminately" intro groups of people protesting Chinese rule.
The accusation was leveled by the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a group run by exiled Tibetans in Dharamsala, India, home to the Dalai ...
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Web Hosting Company Silences Police Watchdog
Friday, March 14th, 2008A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.Visitors to RateMyCop.com on Tuesday were redirected to a GoDaddy page reading, "Oops!!!", which urged the site owner to contact GoDaddy to find out why the company pulled the ...
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UK Legalizes Taser Use On Children
Thursday, February 14th, 2008LRC The Brits have taken a giant leap ahead in the race towards totalitarianism. The police have been given permission to zap all violent suspects, even if they are unarmed and even if they are children. Home Office Police Minister Tony McNulty said medical assessments had confirmed the risk of death or serious injury from Tasers was "low". The relaxing of restrictions on the use of the weapons ...
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Quarter of police face conduct inquiries
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Almost a quarter of Dyfed- Powys Police force's 1,200 police officers have been investigated for allegations of misconduct, corruption or failure in duty in less than a year. Over about 11 months in 2007, 283 constables, sergeants and inspectors faced a probe by the force's professional standards department (PSD). The shock figures were revealed after an Evening Post reporter requested details under the Freedom of Information Act....
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