Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 4, 2009 Blogging For Justice Event
Stop Taser Torture – Stop Police Pre-Trial Extra-Judicial
Electrocutions and Executions
Electrocutions and Executions
Washington, DC - November 19, 2009
On December 4, 2009, bloggers from across America are joining together for "A Day of Blogging for Justice - Blogging To Stop Taser Torture and the Pre-Trial -Judicial Electrocution of Americans by police".
Several dozen bloggers from diverse communities nationally and internationally are participating thus far.
See the linked list of participating bloggers here: http://stoptasertorture.
The use of tasering on even nonviolent persons who are often those who are incoherent, hallucinating, wheelchair bound, suicidal, unarmed, deaf, handcuffed, blind, pregnant, students, foreign non-English speakers, or just didn’t move fast enough for an officers liking; is continuously growing not only in volume, but in the level of how liberally, unwarrantedly, and excessively tasering is being used across the country. We are now torturing 10 year old children.
Both Black and White, poor and middle-class, & others have been subject to such abuse, and sentenced to death on the street. Yet, we cannot let go unnoticed that Black and the disadvantaged are even most subject to ‘electrocute first, ask questions later’.
Both Black and White, poor and middle-class, & others have been subject to such abuse, and sentenced to death on the street. Yet, we cannot let go unnoticed that Black and the disadvantaged are even most subject to ‘electrocute first, ask questions later’.
Many Americans have seen the outrageous police tasing of an unarmed suicidal man; causing him to fall OFF AN OVERPASS AND ONTO THE HIGHWAY, in clear violation of tasing instructions! Phillip McDuffy was suicidal before, but with the help of his local police, he is now in critical condition.
Or, the 9-times tasering to death of the cousin of Jena 6 defendant Mychael Bell, Barron “Scooter” Pikes, while he was handcuffed; killing him in the back of a patrol car.
The blogs Excited-Delirium, Electronic Village, Truth Not Tasers, Tasered While Black, Pam’s House Blend, Electrocuted While Black, and other bloggers have been tracking the issue of taser torture in America for some time now.
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now is tracking the death of Mr. Pikes. We are blogging on December 4th against police and other security entities across America, Canada and around the world involved in Extra-Judicial Electrocution by Tasers. African American political Pundit, one of the organizers of the event has called it a campaign against "on the spot pre-trial electrocution" of members of the American public. He went on to say, even 10 year old little girls are not safe from taser torture.
Francis L. Holland, Esq., a blogger at the blog Electrocuted While black says,
Francis L. Holland, Esq., a blogger at the blog Electrocuted While black says,
The Francis L. Holland Blog is calling for a moratorium on the pre-trial, extra-judicial electrocution of members of the public, at least until it can be demonstrated that these electrocutions are not potentially lethal, are not being used to torture subjects in custody, and are not being used disproportionately and gratuitously on Black people as a form of modern-day lynching.
The Publisher of the blog, Tasered While Black says,
It’s time for the U.S Justice Department to address the issue of taser torture in America. It has to address the issue of the Use of Force Continuum ‘head on’ with the thousands of police departments in America who think it’s OK to torture the incoherent, wheelchair bound, suicidal, unarmed, deaf, handcuffed, blind, pregnant, students, or 10 year old kids. It’s time for the justice department to send out regular notices and in-service training on the use of these “weapons of citizen torture and destruction,” as they hopefully, become outlawed as torture weapons in years to come.
Today we want to give you and other members of the general public, awareness on the issue of taser abuse by police. It's important that the general public understand the 'use of force continuum' used by law enforcement officials, and how it is abused by many in the law enforcement community. (See the use-of-force-continuum provided by Villager at Electronic Village: http://electronicvillage.
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