Over and over we read, or view TV, scenes of police beating citizens unmercifully - using tasers on them - breaking in the wrong apartment, with innocent citizens ending up dead etc. http://pictures.aol.com/ap/singleImage.do?pid=7360vT NUsMWRjP2mtOZoAfJiTxCgyYWkn9-Rv4xQp5Fd3Ig%3D View full size This young boy is in Intensive Care - Missouri - he didn't respond fast enough after a FALL - due to a broken back - so police shot him with a taser 19 times. IMAGINE that this boy was the nephew of President Bush - or the the son of the Missouri Governor - what do you think would be done with this rogue police? Once upon a time a police officer could be trusted to HELP you / now you have to FEAR for your life!! This could be your son. It was recently announced that a man in Louisiana was tasered 9 times by polilce - and DIED. At 247lbs he couldn't get up fast enough! The taser was invented in a garage by two guys - the only TESTING done was on a PIG. This weapon is very dangerous - in that it shocks the body with some 50,000 volts. A person on certain medications - medical conditions - a heart condition etc, can DIE for a damn misdemeanor. The Arizona Republic, is the one newspaper that has tracked these DEATHS - which are numerous --and mostly POOR - mentally ill - or BLACK. Here you have a young boy - who is badly injured having fallen some 30 ft / he was incoherent / could not respond to commands to get up etc, because he had a BROKEN BACK. This just makes me ill. I have worked in an institution, with extremely agitated - out of control residents. We were trained in crisis control --nobody gotten beaten up / we didn't have taser guns. I also worked for years in a soup kitchen - homeless shelter - on the streets as the director of a homeless program. In these situations we dealt with persons high on crack - having a psychotic break - drunk - violent etc. One man had a machete for goodness sakes. NOT once did the police in this CT - city beat anybody senseless - kick them- beat them senseless, with their night sticks, or TASER them. No person EVER DIED ---THIS BARBARISM HAS GOT TO STOP. Article of this young boy BELOW --I will research Missouri newspapers - this police dept and send out contacts tomorrow - people have got to start speaking out on these killings. dthmoriarty@yahoo.com Note - Taser deaths are PUBLIC EXECUTIONS...is that the real message of tasers? There have been over 300 police exections of innocent civilians with tasers to date. -ed

