[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Two months later, Death of tasered street artist Israel Hernandez Llach after spray-painting abandoned MacDonald’s continues to stir controversy. He was shot in chest. Text repeats TASER corp’s “nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies in 107 countries” use tasers. Family says he was in fine health.]] Reuters, by Kevin Gray MIAMI, Oct […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The Florida Department of Law Enforcement responds to public calls that it review the death of graffiti artist Israel Hernandez-Llach after he was tasered by police eluding arrest for “tagging” a fast-food restaurant – certainly not in any way a violent act. FDLE spokesperson says “We have complete confidence in the […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The bad-cop syndrome to explain a clear case of abusive use of a taser? The Miami Beach police officer involved in the Taser death of an 18-year-old graffiti enthusiast, Israel Hernandez-Llach, has a trail of trouble – including another taser assault, breaking a man’s nose, flunking a drug test and an […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Israel Hernandez-Bandera, an 18-yr-old graffiti artist, spray-painted an abandoned McDonald’s, was running away and then tasered by police and died. Police say they need to taser for increasing “violence” they are encountering. Most police do not publish taser-use statistics. Amnesty International clearer guidelines on taser use]] The Christian Science Monitor, by […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : A rally drawing in 400 people is held for 18-year-old graffiti artist Colombian-born Israel Hernandez-Llach who was tasered by police running away after spray-painting a shuttered McDonald’s. The teen’s father, Israel Hernandez-Bandera has called his son’s death “an act of barbarism” and an “assassination of a young artist and photographer.” The […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Israel Hernandez-Llach, 17-years-old, was already an award-winning artist, on the threshold of acclaim in Miami Beach art circles. It was while spray-painting a shuttered McDonald’s early Tuesday morning that Hernandez-Llach was chased down by Miami Beach police and shot in the chest with a Taser. He later died. Friends and family […]
[[Summary / Comments: Should taggers be tasered? This case is worse: Dan Halsted while he was just innocently walking home. When he heard men following him, he understandably ran. “I was screaming to call the police the whole time, and I didn’t realize this was the police because they never identified themselves at all.” An […]
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