NYCLU Criticizes Taser Use by Suffolk, NYC, Albany, Nassau, Monroe, Rochester & Syracuse Police

Posted on October 21, 2011 by iwilder

IW: The Green Party of Suffolk has called for a moratorium on Taser use by Suffolk Police after Taser deaths in 2009 and 2011 Police officers throughout New York State are consistently misusing and overusing Tasers, according to a report released today by the New York Civil Liberties Union. The NYCLU’s analysis covers the following law enforcement agencies: Albany Police Department, the Glens […]

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Green Party Renews Call for Moratorium on Tasers in Suffolk

Posted on June 2, 2011 by iwilder

“The Green Party of Suffolk is outraged to discover that Suffolk County has continued using Tasers against its residents,” said its chair Roger Snyder. “It is inconceivable that Suffolk has continued to use Tasers given the questions about the Taser-related death of Darryl Bain  in 2009.” Snyder repeated the Green Party’s plan to protect the […]

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NYCLU Sues Police Officer Over Taser of a Syracuse 9th Grader

Posted on December 25, 2010 by iwilder

The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court on behalf of a Syracuse student who was shot with a Taser by a police officer last year. The student, a ninth grader at the time, was attempting to stop a fight between two female classmates at Fowler High School […]

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Suffolk County Police use taser on homeless man selling possibly stolen jewelry

Posted on October 6, 2010 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Long Island Press Homeless Man Tasered in Struggle With Suffolk Police By Timothy Bolger on October 6th, 2010 A 20-year-old homeless man…was Tasered on Tuesday while fighting with Suffolk County police who were attempting to arrest him for string of burglaries. A detective with the Property Recovery Unit was at Cash for Gold […]

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Canada apologizes for Taser death

Posted on April 5, 2010 by kwilder

RCMP apologizes to Dziekanski’s mother The mother of Robert Dziekanski, who died in October 2007 after RCMP subdued him with a Taser, says now that the police force has apologized, she might finally be able to sleep at night. The mother of Polish visitor Robert Dziekanski, who died in October 2007 after RCMP subdued him […]

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Suffolk County: Coram man dead after being tasered by police

Posted on November 15, 2009 by kwilder

I don’t think that the activist community in Suffolk County realized our police had tasers. People should try to stop the use of this weapon. It has a history of abuse and suffering. Police think it is non-lethal, so they overuse it, which creates consequences like the death of a man in Coram. There are […]

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Court rules police can use taser to collect DNA samples

Posted on June 9, 2009 by kwilder

from Professor Jonathan Turley’s blog Defense Shocked: Court Rules Police Can Use Taser to Collect DNA Sample June 7, 2009 In New York, Niagara County Court Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza has issued a controversial ruling that police can taser a suspect who refuses to voluntarily submit a DNA sample. In this case, Ryan S. Smith […]

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AmIntl: Tasers – potentially lethal and easy to abuse

Posted on December 28, 2008 by iwilder

Tasers – potentially lethal and easy to abuse | Amnesty International Amnesty International has said that industry claims that Taser stun guns are safe and non-lethal do not stand up to scrutiny. The organization called on governments to limit their deployment to life-threatening situations or to suspend their use. The call came as the organization […]

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Urgent: Magical help needed in Minneapolis-St. Paul

Posted on September 3, 2008 by iwilder

This came to us via a Long Island list-serve: Subject: [LivRiv] URGENT MAGICAL SUPPORT IMMEDIATELY Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 Beloveds, we need your help urgently. JASON (SCARECROW) has been extensively tasered & is being denied medical attention. Jason & Ryanna were both snatched from the pagan cluster at the beginning of the Poor People¹s […]

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