[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : (Revised google-translation from Portuguese; the original text appears below the translation, in italics) The X26 is shown off at a public security fair in Rio de Janeiro. Data on adoption of taser in Brazil, if this is reliable: since January 2009 there are about 6,000 TASER guns in Brazil. From the […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Senior military leaders from 22 nations, most in the Asia-Pacific region, are gathered in Mongolia this week to learn about nonlethal weapons and how their forces can more effectively use them. The two-day seminar started with demonstrations, including the X26, with Mongolian military participating. Each experienced firsthand how it feels to […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : (Edited translation from Portuguese; the original text appears below the translation, in italics. A long post. The Rio de Janerio military police are undergoing $7.7 million training in non-lerthal weapons in preparation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, particularly “Crowd Control and Civil Disorders”, taught by Spanish officers, including tasers – […]
BRAZIL – Policial da UPP mata garoto de 17 anos em Manguinhos [Pacification Police Unit kills 17 year old boy [with taser] in Manguinhos] (2013-03-24) [[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : (Revised google-translation from Portuguese; the original text appears below the translation, in italics.) Casé Matheus Oliveira, 17, died after being shot with a taser (stun gun) […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Military police in Rio are gradually replacing their rifles with non-lethal weapons such as electro-shock taser guns, according to an announcement by the government of Rio de Janeiro State last week. The move will mainly affect police on radio-patrol missions in pacified favelas (poor neighborhoods). 273 guns have already been replaced with […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Within a long, detailed and referenced article on Israeli mistreatment of Palestinian children, the author provides testimony of Israeli use of the taser as a torture instrument on a 15-yr-old Palestinion boy(in BOLD in the text below): “the interrogator grabbed the boy’s head and slammed it against the wall, slapping him […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : TASER Inc. reports new sales (3,600 X26s) to the US military “be deployed to military police and allows the enhanced ability to manage escalation of force while conducting military, humanitarian, and stability and support operations” – principally for military policing. “These TASER devices will not only help to protect the lives […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: These are surel not actual tasers … still in recent days and weeks Libyans and sub-Saharan Adricans who stayed loyal Colonel al-Gaddafi during the recent conflict have been subject to systematic torture including shocks Taser-like weapons – which is tey another confirmation that taser merits the label “instrument of torture” ]] Amnesty […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : a single paragraph report confirms that tasers are issued (STANDARD ISSUE?) to US military police on overseas bases on a regular basis. Sounds like a half-day training session to “safely handle and operate all Taser equipment”: All?]] 12/13/2011 – SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany – Gabriel Kastner, 52nd Security Forces Squadron police […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS :A British lawyer (solicitor) warns that “this weapon can kill – it should be restricted to life-threatening circumstances”. The new Met police chief calling for a widespread introduction of the Taser stun gun onto the streets of our cities. This backdoor militarisation of our unarmed police force, if implemented, would end centuries […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A long article on how drones are becoming domestic law enforcement tools, following their military.applications. A few mentions of tasers … Trials by US police of “Predator drones”. Police officials are already speaking openly about their desire to weaponize their drones with “nonlethal weapons such as Tasers or a bean-bag gun.”]] Salon.com, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A British lawyer (solicitor) warns that “this weapon can kill – it should be restricted to life-threatening circumstances”. The new Met police chief calling for a widespread introduction of the Taser stun gun onto the streets of our cities. This backdoor militarisation of our unarmed police force, if implemented, would end […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A long article … “Media-friendly” weapons – such as Long Rannge Accoustic Devices LRADs) – are being tested for everyday policing and crowd control, and as uprisings around the world spread, the demand for nonlethal weapons is increasing. Tasers are one such weapon, in which the military and policing overlap. Unlike rubber […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : New “toys” to help police controls “riots” (read: demononstrations) include heat rays, sonic disruptors, mass TASERs, malodorants, and other new technologies. Dee the section on the Taser XREP (in bold): TASER’s Shockwave is an area denial device that was inspired by anti-personnel mines. The Shockwave ADS consists of three tiers of […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS Fresh violence broke out in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square early Tuesday, in conflicts with the nation’s military-led government. CNN saw captured protesters beaten and shocked with Taser-like devices, whether or not these were TAER Inc. products or generic tasers is not known. (See previous stories under EGYPT; only reference to tasers in […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: This is a long article covering issues.of which only one paragraph is relevant to tasers: the National Security Guard responsible for anti-terrorism but also active in the Kashmir, where rioting is frequent. is to receive new tasers … The paragraph is immediately below, the whole article underneath.]] (New Delhi) India Today, by Dhiraj […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: The taser as a first step towards giving the police machine-guns. “Even compared to the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations and other protests around the country, what’s happening in Oakland shocks the senses. Judging from video and firsthand accounts, the police in that city have been especially brutal in dealing with the protesters… […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : BANGKOK, Thailand — U.S. Marines have finished training Thailand’s military and police to use electroshock Tasers to inflict “intense pain,” shoot a blinding neurotoxin spray, and explode non-lethal grenades, one year after Bangkok’s army unleashed snipers and armored personnel carriers against an anti-coup insurrection in which 91 people died.] Scoop.nz, by Richard […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: UAV (“Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” or drone) used against insurgents in Afghanistan can incapacitate suspects from above – it was demonstrated by a police unit – the Montgomery County Sheriff’s office – and will be operational within a month. This shows the ties between military/policing in the USA. The ShadowHawk on show in is […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : “Torture by police and military personnel remains widespread with hundreds of cases involving beatings, electrocution, and sexual assault reported … A video was released lately revealing army and police officers torturing citizens in Kurdi police station in the governorate of Dakahlia (lying north east of Cairo). The video showed three […]