Archive for the 'Killed-by-cop provocation' Category

AUSTRALIA – Queensland police ‘over-reacted’ in tasering 17-year-old girl (2011-03-20)

Posted on April 18 2011 by admin

[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: QUEENSLAND Deputy Police Commissioner Ross Barnett had effectively admitted that officers over-reacted in tasering a teenage girl in Toowoomba on Wednesday, a former policeman and politician says. The girl kept on shouting: “Real gun, real gun. Shoot me with a real gun”. Less than 40 seconds after police arrived, the girl was […]

USA – Mississippi Sheriffs defend use of Taser weapons [during training, too many injuries to “volunteers” …] (2011-02-12)

Posted on February 12 2011 by admin

USA – Mississippi Sheriffs defend use of Taser weapons [during training, too many injuries to “volunteers” …] (2011-02-12) [[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: This “local” story relates to many issues: (1) concern by the public employees’ union that police are getting inured during “voluntary” exposure to taser discharges; (2) potential costs to the city budget of resulting […]

CANADA / QUEBEC – Présentation à la Commission de la sécurité publique de la “Coalition pour le retrait du Taser” [The “Coalition pour le retrait du Taser” official statement to the Montreal Public Secirity Commission’s hearings on the taser] (2010-04-27)

Posted on April 27 2010 by admin

[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS : An important analysis, the official position statement, presented by the president of the Ligue des droits et libertés, of the Quebec Coalition pour le retrait de Taser at the April 2010 Montreal Public Safety Commission’s public hearings on police access to tasers. Six major issues are raised: (1) the background of the […]