[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: In Belize, police systematically taser gang-suspects: An investigation is currently underway to determine why the Gang Suppression Unit – that seems to adopt gangland tactics – rained down on at least twenty residents, using pepper spray and tasers. And tonight, there is another report of alleged brutality by law-enforcement officers, this time […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: At least twenty persons are claiming that they were brutalized and violated by the sinisterly-labeled official «Gang Suppression Unit» -which seems to use gangland techniques of suppression. A witrness says: “The other guys, they received tasers to their heads, some of them had their feet over their heads; they were realizing brutalizing […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “Sambula got one of the Taser and shocked me here. When he shocked me and i felt what it felt like I drew back and he pushed it on me again. It was more than one of them and they crowded me and shocked me all over ” …. Belize City – […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS : Use of tasers by the sinister-sounding “Gang Suppressrion Unit” – they do have a straight way of talking in Belize – since October 2010. The gangs are nearly all in Belize City, and there are drugs and smuggling … attention then turns to “an innocuous looking device – that fit on my […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Belize – especially Belize City – has a serious problem of gang warfare with gun killings. The police created the “Gang Suppression Unit” (GSU) arming them, inter allia, with tasers. The GSU, accused of widespread abuse, justifyies the violence of their interventions by repeating “We have a job to do”: their mandate […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The US Martines organize a week-long training non-lethal weapons and riot control course in Belize with Caribbean military units. Participants also received voluntary taser shots from an X26E taser gun (via a clamp in their boots). “Part of the certification is getting the students to realize the full extent of the […]
Belize police have added another weapon to their arsenal: this time it’s taser guns. The media was called out this morning to the Racoon Street Police Station to get a first hand demonstration of this new weapon.
In brief: In the past, the police have been much criticized for using deadly force in situations where it was unwarranted or unjustified. And while that’s fairly easy to judge form outside, for those in the moment of decision, it’s often kill or be killed. But does it have to be? Is there a middle ground between a baton and a bullet? Well, there is now. The Police Department is introducing the use of taser guns and today the media was witness to a high tech demonstration. But for us, it brought back old memories. (more)In brief: In the past, the police have been much criticized for using deadly force in situations where it was unwarranted or unjustified. And while that’s fairly easy to judge form outside, for those in the moment of decision, it’s often kill or be killed. But does it have to be? Is there a middle ground between a baton and a bullet? Well, there is now. The Police Department is introducing the use of taser guns and today the media was witness to a high tech demonstration. But for us, it brought back old memories. (more)