Court Oks Repeated Tazering Of Pregnant Woman

[apologydue]

I know these sorts of things seem to have become a dime a dozen these days but I still can't get over it sometimes when I really think about it. I can remember when cops were still mostly on our side.

I think it would be interesting to know what type of training, specifically, they received back then, and exactly what has been added and taken away from the training they receive now. How did gov convince even small town cops to become militantly against their own community so quickly? This has taken place in a short amount of time, say approximately 30 years.

When I use my mind's eye to envision this scenario it becomes so surreal to me that I almost can't believe that a judge would uphold this.

In many states, at least in the past, refusing to sign a ticket got nothing more than a smirk from an officer and a comment such as, "Doesn't matter if you sign it or not, you still have to show up in court if you don't pay it". There was no law against refusing to sign in most states.

Lets say I am an officer of the law. I have plenty of backup because I have two officers with me. There are three of us. A pregnant woman decides she will not sign a speeding ticket. As an officer I already know that this is only a misdemeanor and that I cannot arrest her for refusing to sign the ticket in this jurisdiction.

My ego is so bruised because I AM A MINI GOD OFFICER, that me and my three buddies decide to electrocute this pregnant woman to teach her a lesson.


Cop and wife at the dinner table...

"Honey what did you do at work today?"

"I tazed a pregnant woman three times for refusing to sign a speeding ticket."

"Can people go to jail for that?"

"No, but she didn't do what I said and it pissed me off."

"Thats not what I meant asshole, will they put you in jail for tazing the pregnant woman for a non-arrestable offense?"

"No I can practically do whatever I please to anybody I want to do it to."

"Oh darn, I thought maybe freedom was headed my way."

Can you imagine being the wife of one of these cocksuckers? I bet they live in hell.

What would one of these cops do if someone electrocuted their pregnant wife?

So, we have a person committing an offense for which they cannot even be arrested, they are tortured with electricity, jeopardizing a fetus, and the court says..."okee dokee".

We are so screwed...At the rate this country is disintegrating I shudder to envision the future.





http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/0 ... n_tasered/

Court OKs Repeated Tasering of Pregnant Woman
March 31st, 2010


A federal appeals court says three Seattle police officers did not employ excessive force when they repeatedly tasered a visibly pregnant woman for refusing to sign a speeding ticket.

The lawyer representing Malaika Brooks said Monday that the court’s 2-1 decision sanctioned “pain compliance” tactics through a modern-day version of the cattle prod.

“To inflict pain on a person if that person is not doing what the police want that person to do is simply outrageous,” said Eric Zubel, the woman’s attorney. “I cannot say that loud enough.”

Zubel said he would ask the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear Friday’s 2-1 decision that drew a sharp dissent from Judge Marsha Berzon:

“Refusing to sign a speeding ticket was at the time a nonarrestable misdemeanor; now, in Washington, it is not even that. Brooks had no weapons and had not harmed or threatened to harm a soul,” (.pdf) Berzon wrote. “Although she had told the officers she was seven months pregnant, they proceeded to use a Taser on her, not once but three times, causing her to scream with pain and leaving burn marks and permanent scars.”

The majority noted that the M26 Taser was set in “stun mode” and did not cause as much pain as when set on “dart mode.” The majority noted that the circuit’s recent and leading decision on the issue concerned excessive force in the context of a Taser being set on Dart mode, which causes “neuro-muscular incapacitation.”

Stun mode, the court noted, didn’t rise to the level of excessive force because it imposes “temporary, localized pain only.”

[StarmanSkye]

God DAMN this is outrageous. Totally beyond the realm of common sense. It's been my understanding that you cannot be compelled to sign something against your will, not a ticket or anything. This hardass pain-compliance bullshit is unbelieveable. It's like over the years it HAS become something like a war between Authority and the ordinary public, with much of the public lining-up to show how loyal and compliant they can be, insulting and mocking those who have been pointing to the insidious march of fascist militantism.

I just happened to see a Rainbow Family altercation provoked by gun-wielding cops, part of the Special Incidence Group lawmen attached to the Forest Service to hassle alternative-minded campers at the annual 4th of July campout held in a different National Forest every year. The police attempted a roadblock with several cops pointing assault rifles and taking up menacing postures, while more horse-mounted officers attempted crude crowd-control tactics. It looked like a scene out of a riot -- cept the Rainbow Gatherers advanced on the cops shouting 'Shame!' and 'Go Home!' and 'This is America!' and 'WE LOVE YOU!', while forming a huge circle to surround the cops -- this last tactic completely flumoxxed the cops, they got in their patrol SUVs and left. The whole point of their exercise was nothing but trying to block the Gatherers' hike down the gravel road to a clearing set-aside as the site of that year's drum-circle and gathering place. (This was about 2006 -- there have been years of less and more senseless aggravation to little purpose but preventing gatherers from gathering peacefully on Public Lands).

I think the ubiquity of tazer use is part of the slippery slope from the Patriot Act idiocy and authorization for using torture. One remedy would be if people reasserted their historic right to use Jury Nullification to refuse to convict anyone of senseless, stupid, abusive laws that in their judgement doesn't meet the jury's criteria for the public interest. We need a return to the principle that our government serves ONLY under authority by consent of the governed. And they shall ALWAYS be subject to our approval. We need to rethink 'freedom', what it means and who it serves.

[apologydue]

I saw the rainbow video too. Pretty disgusting. I think the tactic the Rainbows used was perfect.

Chanting "Shame on you, this is America and we depend on you to protect us, and we love you" puts the officers in a mental bind they are not accustomed to. I would imagine it is a real mind screw to be in that position as an officer. It was fairly effective for the Rainbow people. It appealed to the core of what police work is supposed to be about, and firmly rooted shame in the minds of the officers. It is certainly more effective than simply arguing your case and your rights because these days officers could care less about rights.

Its really sort of brilliant if you think about it. As an officer, while you are abusing a person, they are telling you that they depend on you for protection, and that they love you. Reminds me of 82_28's double bind subject but I don't know if it qualifies as one.

[Nordic]

To me, this is one of those paradigm-shifting stories, a fairly small incident which shows that the police state has, indeed, taken over, irrevocably.

You know, like a woman refusing to sit in the back of the bus.

Except this one will never go anywhere, never be famous, and will represent, equally, in its anonymity, the death of activism and populism in this country.

Nails in the coffin.

[StarmanSkye]

Another masterpiece.
Cops strip-search woman attack victim -- Unbelieveable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te-xtddg ... re=related