Blind Woman with Cancer Faces Assault Charges of Police Officer after being Tasered!

Police use taser on blind woman with cancer

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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Family members are angry and speaking out after Dayton police used a stun gun on a woman who is blind and suffering from cancer. Police said they were looking for a suspect when they knocked on Denise Harris’s door Thursday morning. But according to both police and witnesses, things quickly got out of hand and Harris was tased.

“She was able to force herself down on to the floor and not be cooperative, grabbing on to the detective. A taser was dry stunned onto her arm to control her hand movement, then she was cuffed,” said Sgt. Charles Anderson.

Her family said she was yelling at officers because she was scared.

“She was terrified. She was extremely terrified,” said Harris’s niece, Dionna. “She was scared because the person identified themselves as a police officer. But she’s been robbed before by someone using the same technique.”

They said police used unnecessary force when officers came to the Fernwood Avenue apartment looking for Harris’s son, who is wanted. Officers said Harris attacked a detective.

“She’s blind and they pulled her off her Futon, handcuffed her and tased her because he said she swung at him. She can’t see,” said Harris’s sister Elvita Harris. “I’m very frustrated and upset. Dayton police need to implement a sensitivity program.”

Neighbors said they told officers she was blind and sick.

“It was heartbreaking,” Brenda Miles said. “I was almost in tears because I know the lady and I look out for her because she’s blind.”

Harris was taken to Good Samaritan for treatment.

The officers actions will be investigated, but Sgt. Anderson said Harris should have told them she was scared.

“She does not have to open her door. It was a voluntary thing for her to open her door,” he said.

Harris is now facing charges for assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.

Reported by Mandi Sheridan, WDTN / Edited by David Robinson

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Caught On Camera: Teen Dies After Shot With Taser Gun

A teenager dies after being hit with a police Taser gun for 37 seconds, and the whole thing is caught on tape by surveillance cameras.

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Lawless, Brutal, Taser Crazy Cops Threaten the Rule of Law

US cops, never paragons of virtue, intelligence or common sense, have lately gone rogue, perhaps encouraged by lawlessness and contempt for the rule of law by those who occupy the very highest offices in our land.

Thuggery trickles down!

Innocent civilians pay a heavy price with their lives, liberty and limbs.

My advice to my fellow Americans:

• Do not call a cop if you can avoid it. Cops can no longer be trusted and you might be the one who is beaten, tased, or thrown in jail!
• Don’t drive if you can avoid it; cops love to pull people over and harass them!
• Never presume to ‘assist’ a police officer!
• Complain to your congressman, your councilman that you do not appreciate the fact that your tax monies are being used to support the criminal activities of cops who disdain due process of law and the presumption of innocence while evincing a sadistic pleasure in the use of tasers, clubs, and physical force against persons for whom there is no probable cause to suspect that they have committed a crime or have even thought about committing a crime!

To any cop who might read this, I have some advice for you. Whether you like it or not, your ONLY duty and responsibility, your ONLY job is to ‘protect, serve and defend’!

Now –if you are not willing to do this within the spirit and the letter of the law, then I strongly suggest you get your sorry ass out of ‘law enforcement’ and into another line of work! You have become a symptom –not a cure –of utter lawlessness. If you’re not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem. Guess what! You ARE the problem!

Secondly, re-examine your motives for wanting to become a cop. Did you suspect that a mere uniform affords you the respect you might not have gotten elsewhere and otherwise? Do you suffer from lack of self-esteem? If so, get your sorry ass into another line of work! You are NOT making America better. You are subverting it!

If you don’t like what I’ve written then why don’t you come beat me up and by doing so prove my point! If you don’t like what I’ve written, then why don’t you consult Bush about how all the citizens of the US are, in fact, ‘terrorists’ and should be beaten up, arrested, rousted, incarcerated, harangued —all without probable cause or the presumption of innocence. Bush would like that.

When Americans are routinely beaten up or intimidated by ‘cops’ even as they are denied the protections of habeas corpus, then the crooked establishment (cops included) will have become the very justification for revolution. This has been the case throughout history; the theme resounds in common law, the works of esteemed philosophers to include John Locke and, our own, Thomas Jefferson.

whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

Abolish this government is something –by God –we shall do! A new broom sweeps clean! Injustices, including police brutality, stupidity, cruelty and other abrogations of the rule of law, denial of various rights to assemble, dissent, or merely go about out daily lives unmolested by brutes without warrants is every justification for revolutions of any sort.

If you are a cop reading this and disagree with me, fine! That’s what free speech is all about! But don’t think for a minute that I will simply shut up, roll over or play dead because you happen to wear a blue suit! For all you know, I might be color blind.
Some additional resources:

• Parsing Officer Patrick Pogan’s Anger
• What Really Happened: Tasers a form of torture, says UN
• Cops Tase Barely Conscious Boy With Broken Back 19 Times For Non-Compliance
• Parents question why Ozark police used stun gun on injured son – 16-year-old is tased UP TO 19 TIMES!
• Tased Until Dead: The Epidemic of Taser Crazy Cops
• US Cops Go Out of Control; US Citizens No Longer Safe
• Tasers, Torture and Terror Tactics: America Becomes a Police State

Now to the photos of the latest in an epidemic of police outrages in Bush’ s police state:

The Brutal Cop Photo

*Update* Just wanted to take the time to thank everyone who came by and dropped off their opinion, the ones who gave it the thumbs up, the ones who dugg it and the guys over at reddit. With everyones help we were able to get 20,000 people to see these images. This site like always makes NO money from anything on here, its simply a site about powerful imagery. Thank you again, i would love if 100,000 people could see it, so lets make that happen. It is true, images can tell a million words.

*Updated 02/08/2008* Thanks to Andrew we have an update from a Providence Newspaper

Providence RI, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) march on Jackies Galaxy, a local restaurant chain supplied by HWH/Dragonland in NYC, a supplier notorious for slave labor conditions and a lack of basic labor rights. A few blocks before finishing the march North Providence police brutally tackled two of the marches after they moved to the sidewalk too slowly, both were arrested and one suffered a badly broken leg in the attack. More info here.

Today at 12pm EST the Providence wobblies organized a march on Jackies Galaxy, which is a restaurant chain that is being supplied by HWH in New York City, a supplier who is notorious for its slave labor conditions of up to 110 hours per week without basic labor rights (minimum wage and overtime).

Roughly 30-40 wobblies and supporters were marching towards a restaurant in North Providence when the police began following them en mass. They told the marches to move to the sidewalk, while this was initially ignored, the marchers listened to the police and began slowly moving to the sidewalk.
The police then surrounded the marchers in their squad cars and began getting out. With the police in full force, they began attacking the marchers, one fellow worker, Alex Svoboda, was pinned down by the police during her arrest and suffered a dislocated leg. Jason, another wob, was also arrested in during the police’ attack.

All thanx goes to Jonathan McIntosh and http://www.iww.org/

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The Use and Abuse of Tasers

Intelligent young man talks about the taser and how its misuses are placing our society in peril.

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Welcome to my newest blog!

The subject matter of this new blog is not pretty, in fact, it’s very ugly. We are literally becoming a “taser-nation” where excessive force is the standard and no one in office blinks an eye to police brutality even when the target is a child or an elderly person.

I knew I had to publish another blog on this particular subject to spark public interest which will, hopefully, stimulate some healthy debate. When I began receiving these videos from online friends, well, I just could not believe what I was seeing. Police officers pulling out tasers (stun guns) because they didn’t want to answer questions, one highway patrolman in Utah tased a guy because he wouldn’t sign a traffic ticket. These days one can be the victim of this shocking device for looking crosseyed at an officer, I kid you not.  The most reprehensible action, though, were the targets being tasered over and over again while restrained meaning their hands were handcuffed behind their back and their legs were in shackles. There is no reason for an officer of the law to stoop to this kind of behavior unless he/she is mentally unbalanced, then they have no business being on the force and should be fired immediately.

What is even more disturbing beyond this is that 50% of Americans agree with the increase in violence and use of force by the police.  Go to YouTube and type in taser police.  Scanning through the videos I could not believe what some of these Americans were saying.  They are all for it.  These are ignorant people that think nothing like this could happen to them or a member of their family; it only happens to other people.   Not meaning to be facetious, but, they will get the biggest shock of their lives one day.

Tasers in the police officer’s arsenal will open a can of worms, but it won’t be directed at the so-called bad guys, it will be against those officers that have, up to now, been able to hide their grandiose behavior and brute male ego. Tasers have opened up a nice, neat little way for police to take their revenge on the unsuspecting public that still believes they are here to serve us. Anyone paying attention to the harsh reality today knows that just ain’t true. And they’ve killed a few people along the way too, nearly 300 since 1999. I would bet that there is more to this story, specifically why were tasers introduced to police departments not long after the first “Partriot Act” was signed in October 2001. I smell another rat folks.

I want to issue a standing offer to my readers. If you have first hand knowledge on this subject and would like to contribute something on tasers: their uses and misuses in society please contact me. I would especially like to hear from police officers in the field that are against the use of this deadly weapon.

Email: oubliette@rock.com

Dj

Please check out my other activist blogs:

No One Has Jurisdiction Over The Truth

Pragmatic Witness