On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:41:49 -0500, Larry wrote:

"NE Sailboat" wrote in
newsmhDh.6441$lo1.808@trndny05:

Just the other night a cop was shown pulling a young lady out of her
car and slamming her on the ground, pulling her by her hair .. etc.



In Aaron Russo's documentary "America - Freedom to Fascism", there is a
cop car camera video of a traffic stop in which a black lady, driving
alone in a Ford Exploder cannot produce her driver's license. The cop is
yelling at her at the top of his lungs to get out of the car. She is,
obviously, terrified at his attitude. He threatens and finally does
TAZER her through the open door to force her out of her SUV. She's
jerked out by the high voltage electricity and writhing in pain,
screaming, on the filthy road surface while he continues to scream at her
to "get up, GET UP!" The second cop, who was on the other side of her
SUV threatening her from the right side, comes around and the two cops
haul her shaking, quaking body, unable to move from the Tazer, back
towards the cop car.

Every American needs to see this movie, and this video, as many times as
it takes to put a stop to it. Driving with no license or under
suspension is NO EXCUSE to be treated like a Nazi POW by ANY cops.

It makes you want to shove that damned Tazer up the cops ass and pull the
trigger, over and over..... Cops shouldn't be allowed to possess torture
weaponry like this. An old lady in her 80's was killed by a Tazer in
Rock Hill, SC, a couple of years back. She came into an old folks home
SNIP

First to clear the air, I'm a cop.

Second I agree with what's been written about the Venice, FL water
(wanna' be) cop. It's the few like that that give us a bad name. You
know, like "all teenagers are (insert whatever bad thing you want)".

Third. While I have no info about the young lady pulled out nor the
80's lady, I do know about the Taser case above. It was 100% justified
and proper. I'm sure Mr. Russo had his own agenda and selected the
parts of the footage to further that agenda.

Two cases. Remember the news footage with the very overweight guy? It
showed a bunch of cops yelling and using some very odd baton strikes.
No one seemed to notice there was a wall so one could only see the
cops standing and pounding, but not the subject, who was lying down.
Well, the unit (cop car) video showed the whole thing. The cops were
striking the concrete with the batons to make noise. Not a one struck
the subject. The reason, BTW, for yelling and generally making noise
is that in stressful stiuations ones senses tend to dull, including
hearing. That's also why nurse and doctors speak very close and loud
to patients. Otherwise they simply will not hear.

The second case was the news video of cops escorting a hancuffed teen.
There was one on each side and one right behind the teen. The video
showed the cop in back suddenly slaming the teen against a car hood
and "beating on him". Some civil rights big guns came to town. They
were shown the videos not shown on the news, apologized and left. What
happened was the teen, who was handcuffed with his hands behind as
SOP, reached back and grabbed the cop by the NUTS! No sound on the
news video, but he was yelling to "Let go!" as he was
closed-fist-edge-of-hand striking him on the brachial plexus clavicle
notch (On top of shoulder near neck). This is a "pressure point" that
will temorarily paralyze the arm on that side, with no lasting
effects. The teen let go and that was the end of it.

As far as Tasers being "torture weaponry", that's a bunch of bull. We
have to get Tasered as part of the certification to use one. Yes
Virginia, we have to go through a course and get Tasered to be able to
carry/use one - they don't just hand us one and say go shoot somebody.

The Taser is high voltage at very low current. About the same voltage
and even lower current than those old joke "books" that when you
opened shocked you. The way it does it's job is that it's pulsed at a
proper sequence to block out and override the electrical impluses from
the brain that goes through the nerves and controls our muscles. It
stays on for 5 seconds, then turns off. It can be turned on again if
necesary. The 5 seconds is enough time to handcuff the subject. It is
sometimes painful and sometimes not, but it will usually make you fall
down (you can't control your muscles to balance) and it will make your
arms and legs flop around most of the time (sending pulses though the
nerves) and it usually makes you make um-um-um noises and sometimes
even scream. We had the whole range of reactions from officers in our
class, including one guy who asked, "When are you going to turn the
damn thing on?" when hit. Oh yeah. The Taser keeps a record of when,
how long and how many times it was on.

There have been accusations of Tasers killing people, usually due to
heart attack. The news types really jump on this. There has never been
one proven case. The news types suddenly don't seem to be interested
anymore.

The Taser is one of the best, most humane, intermediate (non-deadly)
weapons ever made (other intermediate weapons are the baton
(nightstick) and chemical spray. Either of which are a lot more
painful. Tasers and the others can only be used if the threat to the
officer is injury or to prevent the subject from injuring him/herself.

Oh yeah. In the case of that "obviously terrified" black lady, she
threated to punch the officer and did take a swing at him. I've taken
down 6'2" guys who became suddenly "obviously terrifed" after they ate
some concrete and were handcuffed. It always amazes me when someone
who has been cussin' me out, threatening to kill me and then doing his
best to do so, suddenly whines that I hurt him, he didn't do nothin',
how come I threw him down on the ground, the handcuffs are hurting
him, etc.

Yes there are cops who should be living in jail instead of bringing
people there. They are rare and they will be found out and dealt with.
All departments have an IA, Internal Affairs, division and those guys
are very vigilant. If you're wronged, report it. It may seem nothing
is being done, but it is. In some cases there's not enough solid
evidence but you can bet that officer will be watched and evidence
will mount up over time if he's dirty.

Rick

PS: If someone tries to "stick a Taser" up my ass, I'll switch to my
Sig.