More Torture by Taser: Cops Zap Man Offering No Resistance …Posted by Digby … Hullabaloo …at 12:00 AM on November 7, 2009.
This is part of such a clear pattern. Police officers commonly say that tasers are needed to get people under control for their own and everyone else’s safety. And they insist they they don’t use it as a form of punishment.
(VIDEO)…http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/143802/%28video%29_more_torture_by_taser%3A_cops_zap_man_offering_no_resistance
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE . . . I don’t know about you, but I find it troubling and disturbing that law enforcement officers seemingly everywhere from metropolitan areas to rural America increasingly appear to use their “taser” gun FIRST in lieu of more civilized though perhaps more time consuming policy of treating everyone respectfully and humanely … and “we” by our silence endorse this form of torture.
… I invite “us” to consider not to shame, blame or criticize but rather simply ask … what would it look like when it’s fixed … and own that ONLY we have the power to bring about the change needed to fix it …
