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Cop wusses-out on getting Tasered

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Fact: Tasers kill. Photo: CC/Jaybird

When cops start refusing to be zapped with “less than lethal weapons,” for training purposes, you just know the technology has got to be dangerous.

For the same reason, cops should not be required to take a bullet, rubber, or “real”–both are also killers.

I propose a compromise: Let’s categorize LTL weapons like the Taser as MTLTL: “more than less than lethal.”

Robert said two doctors — including a physician chosen by the Sheriff’s Department — advised him against being Tased. He feared the electrical jolt and ensuing muscle spasms could further injure a damaged vertebra and a metal plate in his back.

via Indiana lawsuit stimulates debate on Taser training | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star.

Code Pink protestor gets pushed, might push back

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A conservative blogger reports that the Code Pink protester in this video (from Carlos Miller) was being an uncooperative pain in the ass. But now that prosecutors have “offered to drop the charges,” it is becoming clear that there was only one injured party here.

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Taser: Axon device "protects truth" (and "covers ass")

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Update: My favorite feature on the Axon: its “Privacy Mode” switch, which automatically suspends recording during an arrest.

Because dashboard cameras catch only a part of the beat-down action, cops now use a new technology, from the makers of the not-so-less-than-lethal Taser: the Taser Axon. A cop wears the Axon over his ear, super soldier-style, while a device on his chest records the action, including all police radio calls. More on this to come.

On the street, law enforcement officers have seconds to make life-and-death decisions. In the courtroom, lawyers, administrators and jurors have years to analyze and second-guess those decisions. How do you protect the truth when officers have to defend their actions? The AXON (Autonomous eXtended On-Officer Network) by TASER. Only AXON protects the truth … because it provides a full-motion recording of exactly what the officer saw and heard, from the officer’s visual perspective. AXON offers audio-video recording of an incident from the point of view of the officer with pre-event video capture. AXON’s evidence-gathering capabilities can help streamline report documentation to maximize police-work efficiency.

Start snitchin'!

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Authorities ask Londoners to snap litterbugs:

Street litterbugs caught on film

People who drop litter in a London borough are being filmed by a council team and face £80 on-the-spot fines. The BBC reports.

quotemarksright.jpgHackney Council has employed 11 environmental enforcement officers, each who has a mobile phone with a video camera to record offenders.quotesmarksleft.jpg

Fines will also be issued to those who do not clean up after their dogs.

via picturephoning.com: Camphone snapshots nab criminals.

PNormal's 2009 Mass. marijuana predictions

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Bud girl. CC/Shreyans Bhansali

Bud girl. CC/Shreyans Bhansali

Now that pot possession (<=1 ounce) is a mere civil infraction in Massachusetts, here’s what we can expect…

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Are they high? And what will those wacky Davis Square folks do next? Photo: CC/Sushiesque

(1) Davis Square becomes home to the Hub’s first (if not widely publicized) “pot café,” where people can light up and munch out, and drink coffee. Odds: 50-to-1

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Sasha Shulgin, speaking at the opening of the Picower Institute at MIT (in this image, he is at a different gathering), said psychedelics will help scientists understand human consciousness. Cannabis studies might be a precursor to these studies. Photo: CC/ASach

(2) University administrators, at Northeastern, MIT, Brown or Harvard, quietly green light  at least one cannabis research project. (Graduate students are being grossly underutilized for this type of thing, by the way.) Odds: 4-to-1

(3) Attendance at MassCann’s 2009 Freedom Rally (Boston Common, Sept. 19)  tops 100,000. Odds: 4-to-1

(3) A hipster doofus at the Freedom Rally moans as cops write him a $100 ticket for possession. The cops rough the kid up a bit, and YouTube video-makers are there. Odds: 3-to-1

(4) The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raids  a Mexican weed smuggling operation in Eastern Massachusetts. Odds: 10-to-1

Christmas fright

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Photo: CC/Tamara Del Valle

A Milton woman is reportedly wielding a knife, and threatening to hurt herself. Hubby says she’s in her car, heading north to New Hampshire.

Milton police and the husband are trying to talk the woman into returning home, on Woodland Road.

My wife asks, “Is the woman home for a week with a bunch of kids, who aren’t in school?”

Busted: YouTube strikes again

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There’s nothing worse than a dirty cop.

Here, a Salem policeman get nabbed on video, attacking a kid (who may have had a big mouth) on the sidewalk. A fellow officer tries to push him off as he presses his knee into the kid’s throat.

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Flux Rostrum wants his cat back

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Dharma's bummin.

Dharma

FLASH: Flux reports that Dharma is back on the truck, after Galveston police and residents allowed the reporter to stay in the neighborhood overnight.

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And Galveston police are making finding Dharma difficult.

Flux went to Galveston to do a hurricane damage story, and his kitty took off.

Flux is unconventional. As a journalist, the man is confrontational as hell. In other words, he still has balls, and is a great storyteller.

In this video, he takes a classic Texas insult, “You look like a coupla old hippies to me” (an attempt to discredit and emasculate Flux and an off camera friend), cold, and quiet-like.

This video will bring you far into a police-to-civilian interaction. You will cringe. (I did, at all of the crying.) Just watch as these men try to outsmart outperform each other!

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