In 2010 the Buenos Aires mayor announced the creation of a new metropolitan police unit. It would be armed with tasers. Even though tasers had been assigned to some other police units in Argentina, critics immediately declared that “torture weapons” had no place on city police belts. The dictatorship by the generals – the “dirty […]
Terra.com [[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Buenos Aires Court upholds the decision to ban tasers from police use: even if other countries have approved their use, they should not be adopted due to UN recognition of them as a means of torture and potentially lethal. (Article translated approximately from Spanish – see original in Spanish below […]
Argentine judge rules tasers are too close a reminder of torture under the regime of the generals. This effectively stops Buenos Aires police from obtaining tasers.
The Justice banned the use of Taser pistols for the Metropolitan Police (2010-07-23) * Wikileaks The Justice banned the use of Taser pistols for the Metropolitan Police The head of the court No. 9 of the City of Buenos Aires, Judge Andrea Danas, decided to ban the use of Tasers (electrical stun weapons) that had […]
Télam. National News Agency of Argentina. … The chief of the Metropolitan Police of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Eugenio Burzaco, said that the court resolution that forbid the use of the Taser electric shock pistols shall be appealed by the City lawyers, reported Télam. “We abide by court resolutions, but we shall appeal […]
Argentine judge rules against the use of tasers
Victoria Nwosu-Hope, Pain has long been the power structure’s compliance method of choice, whether it was the heretic’s fork or the rack of Europe, or the dogs and electric cattle prods of the Jim Crow South. More recently, police forces around the world have turned to the taser gun: a weapon which delivers 50,000 volt […]
The New Metropolitan Police Force Hits the Streets Posted on 05 February 2010. Today the newly created Metropolitan Police force begins patrolling the streets of Buenos Aires. The new force has been created to address security within Buenos Aires proper and will augment, and in some cases replace, the presence of provincial and federal police […]