I said I would continue to be an activist against the police use of ETD'S ie tazers. I am certainly not alone. Amnesty International, the folks that keep track of official brutality and torture, has called on federal, state and local authorities and law enforcement agencies to suspend all use of electro-shock weapons, pending an urgent, rigorous, independent and impartial inquiry into their use and effects!!
A very Strong statement indeed. Why their concern? It is the same of mine. Tazers kill people. The report speaks of the deaths of 74 people. Th is 74 people they did not intend to kill. OOPS!! And those that survive describe the experience. "It just takes your legs out. It's like a jackhammer going Kaboom, Kaboom,Kaboom." It's like getting punched 100 times in a row." "It is the most profound pain I have ever felt." "Anyone who have experienced it will remember it forever." "It is very uncomfortable." Uncomfortable is an understatement I think.
Tazers are a weapon of torture. The 800th Military Police Brigade used them to torture people in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Miramar Florida police tazered a 9 year old school girl. She was guilty of being "unruly" A 15 year old was tazered and pepper sprayed in an altercation on a school bus. Police tazered a 14 year old boy that broke a window and tried to run away. They tazered a 50 year old man for refusing to give police his date of birth.
IT IS A WEAPON OF ABUSE USED BY ABUSIVE POLICE!!
Portland Oregon Police are in the Amnesty International report. Our cops used tazers on 400 people in 19 months. That averages to about on person every two days...including 25 people who were already in handcuffs. A woman was tapered for selling plastic flowers without a license. These are abusive cops I would have fired.
In most of the cases studies by Amnesty International police departments claim that the use of taxer force was found to be in accordance with departmental policies. Well of course, don't police always say they did nothing wrong? Don't they always say they did nothing wrong? Don't they "embellish the truth" to protect one another? Isn't they why "internal affairs" exists?
Hell yes! I know it and you know it too!
Another problem with taxers is that anyone can buy one. They are not classified as a "firearm." Amnesty International cites cases of parents prosecuted for child cruelty after using Electra shock weapons to discipline their children. Women have been tortured by abusive partners with the damned things. They are mad science and should be outlawed.
I have made up Tazer free zone signs. Come by 105 SE 18'th in Portland and get a copy. Make more copies and put them in your home and business windows. Call Mayor Tom Potter and ask him to stop using tazers on our citizens. Call county Chairman Diane Linn and ask her to stop using tazers on our citizens.
Please join me and Amnesty International in calling for an immediate ban on tazers.
I was playing cribbage with my son on Dec 22, 2005 and 3 minutes later I was being bitten by a police dog and then tazed for "resisting". The police claim that they tazed me first and I continued to resist and they had to bring the dog in to control the situation, which of course is a flat out lie. I go to court on Nov 6,7 to defend myself on charges of interferring with a police officer and resisting arrest. If you have any resource that would help I would appreciate it.
Posted by: David Becken | October 26, 2006 at 09:51 AM
I agree on what you have written and i too hope that others can help stop the torture that tazers used by cops or anybody for that matter before more people suffer or die from the violence it causes. thank you for your good influince on the aspect mentioned.
Posted by: Teresa Erwin | June 20, 2010 at 02:22 PM