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Police decided instead to taser the war hero and follow it up with a beanbag to the guts. Officers reported that a knife had been pulled, but no knife was found on the scene. The police used a riot shield, shotgun and taser on a 95-year-old man in a walker who arguably presented no threat to anyone but himself.
a 95-year-old man in a walker
like POV Cameras required where tech makes it possible and it *IS* very technically feasible to build them INTO the Taser body so every time it's triggered, so is the small lense to record what was being shot and the outcome from the sight line of the taser gun.
Originally posted by occrest
This makes me sick to my stomach!!
What is the message here, I wonder
Originally posted by LABTECH767
reply to post by greencmp
Yep, any decent law abiding person would like to see those particular police officers put out of the police and charged with murder or manslaughter through aggravated assault, They are disgusting examples of corruption, We had something similar not far from me when a police officer tazered a blind man and claimed he thought his white cane was a samurai sword, this officer has also gotten off Scot free.
Originally posted by wrabbit2000
I've about had all I can stand to take of this crap..... I tell you, I'm thinking real serious here about what it would require to start something like a P.A.C. or similar thing of my own to start pushing for some "common sense" solutions, since they LOVE using that phrase on us so much ....like POV Cameras required where tech makes it possible and it *IS* very technically feasible to build them INTO the Taser body so every time it's triggered, so is the small lense to record what was being shot and the outcome from the sight line of the taser gun.
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They just outright executed the man. This HAS to STOP. Enough with giving these criminals with badges all the tools to take life with NONE of the common sense or judgement to SAVE it.
In an article which begins with examples of American police training alongside Israeli security forces, Blumenthal writes , “Having been schooled in Israeli tactics perfected during a 63 year experience of controlling, dispossessing, and occupying an indigenous population, local police forces have adapted them to monitor Muslim and immigrant neighborhoods in US cities. Meanwhile, former Israeli military officers have been hired to spearhead security operations at American airports and suburban shopping malls, leading to a wave of disturbing incidents of racial profiling, intimidation, and FBI interrogations of innocent, unsuspecting people. The New York Police Department’s disclosure that it deployed ‘counter-terror’ measures against Occupy protesters encamped in downtown Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park is just the latest example of the so-called War on Terror creeping into every day life. Revelations like these have raised serious questions about the extent to which Israeli-inspired tactics are being used to suppress the Occupy movement.”
According to Blumenthal, the transformation began after September 11, when American law enforcement officers began to look to the Israelis for counter-terrorism expertise and in response the Israel Lobby “provid[ed] thousands of top cops with all-expenses paid trips to Israel and stateside training sessions with Israeli military and intelligence officials.”
I posted an article (www.prisonplanet.com) dated June 23, 2005 which reported that 105 people were killed in North America within the first 3 months of 2005 by police using 'non-lethal' high voltage TASER guns. It was shocking enough to read that 70 people were killed in North America in 2004 from being tasered by police, but now that number has been exceeded by 25% and ii was only the first quarter of 2005.
The public needs to become aware of this new, lethal abuse from police personnel who are suppose to protect the public, not torture and summarily execute people because they don't "comply" quickly enough when ordered to do this or that. It was predictable that this abuse would ensue as more and more police departments in Britain and America started distributing this high tech torture device to the rank and file last year.
The use of TASER guns by police departments across America must come to an end
We cannot trust police personnel or their supervisors or their police chiefs to use these weapons judiciously, sparingly, and with reservation in order to subdue only those offenders who present a real threat of serious bodily injury (or death) and cannot be subdued by any other means, using more traditional and 'non-lethal' means of restraint-like a few cops jumping on the guy and physically overpowering him.
When you read the commentary from police spokesmen who attempt to minimize and dismiss this new threat when answering reporters questions, you can see from their words that they are impressed with and intoxicated by the newly realized power and intimidation factor gleaned from using Flash Gordon weaponry.
Police department apologists apparently aren't willing to own up to the fact that in the vast majority of these cases, harmless and relatively innocent people are being tasered and sometimes killed because they hadn't responded quickly enough to some 'compliance' order being barked at them by a policeman! Never mind that the person being tasered may not have understood, or heard, or even realized what was being said to him. Immediate 'compliance' is the order of the day today with Officer Rambo and too bad if you get killed for not obeying police 'orders' quickly enough!
The old man, described by a family member as "wobbly" on his feet, had refused medical attention. The paramedics were called. They brought in the Park Forest police.
The police statement leaves the impression that the staff was under threat, leaving police with no choice other than to shoot him.
Police said there had been threats made against the staff. But Grapsas said he was told that staff begged to be allowed to try to calm down the old man.
"If there were threats to the staff, why did the staff want to intervene and say, 'Let us handle this; we'll get him calmed down'?" he asked.
Source
second degree murder n. a non-premeditated killing, resulting from an assault in which death of the victim was a distinct possibility.
The police statement leaves the impression that the staff was under threat, leaving police with no choice other than to shoot him.