Wooden Bullet Projectile
Like the stun grenade, employing wooden pellets as a form of riot control was spearheaded by the British decades ago, mainly in Hong Kong. As the ACLU makes clear, considerable litigation has proceeded in the aftermath of such tactics, including suits brought by protesters in Oakland who bore the brunt of these measures around the beginning of the Iraq War. Longshoremen on their way to work also suffered and sued accordingly. As a result, the Oakland police department caved and beating residents with wooden projectiles as a means of crowd management was rendered illegal.
Bean Bag Projectile
The Super-Sock cons utes yet another less-than-lethal impact munition that kills people. It also happens to have been directed at KSDK-TV photojournalists and Al Jazeera America TV crew members in Ferguson, along with a good dose of tear gas. Numerous suits concerning bean bag usage are also pending.
BEARCAT
Seeing that there aren’t any mines or IEDs in Ferguson, that the chances of an ambush are slim to none, and that the terrain is relatively boring, the decision of the St. Louis County Police Department to roll out with (or even own) one of these is questionable. The same could be said for SWAT teams across the nation, some of whom are presently operating actual MRAPs. As Balko reports in Rise of the Warrior Cop, some are even fitted with 50-caliber machine gun turrets
Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD)
The LRAD is a sonic weapon that my psychological operations (PSYOP) friends could probably discuss more intelligently. All I can tell you is that the sound is so pain-inducing that in addition to being used to keep pirates at bay and break up groups of protesters or black people, it is wielded in order to regulate the movements of wildlife. Here’s how it looks and sounds when targeting human beings.
"Cusseaux, who died from a single gunshot wound after she threatened police with a claw hammer at the door of her apartment.
The officers had been serving an emergency court order to take the woman to a mental health facility."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/2...hoenix-police/
Last edited by boutons_deux; 08-23-2014 at 08:31 AM.
Wannabe thug got what he deserved. Good riddance and STFU about him already.
Biggest thing that jumps out in that video is that it's good to see all those big ole women finally getting some exercise. That march could easily be mistaken as part of Mic e Obama's "Let's Move" program.
there's only one party looking to discourage voting, and it ain't the Dems.You sure about that?
(btw, your gif isn't legible)
Republicans Score Big Victory In Their Battle To Keep Florida Gerrymandered
It all seemed so promising. Last month, a Florida trial judge declared the state’s congressional maps, one of the most gerrymandered maps in the nation, in violation of the state’s cons ution.
In 2012, Florida voters narrowly preferred President Obama to his Republican opponent Mitt Romney. Yet Florida’s congressional maps enabled Republicans to capture 17 of the state’s 27 congressional districts.
Judge Terry P. Lewis’s opinion offered hope that, come the next election, Florida could have a congressional delegation that looked a bit more like Florida.
On Friday, however, Lewis threw cold water on these hopes. Responding to Lewis’s order to redraw the state’s maps, Florida’s GOP-controlled legislature responded with new maps that make only minor changes to the old ones. Lewis’s Friday order approves these new maps, and it also holds that the 2014 election may proceed using the old maps.
So Florida Republicans will get to run two full elections using maps that were declared uncons utional.
And, when the new maps take effect in 2016, they will make only minor changes to the existing gerrymander.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...gerrymandered/
A police report on the death of Michael Brown is missing key information and violates Missouri open records laws, an ACLU attorney told Yahoo News on Friday.
The two-page do ent, which the Ferguson Police Department released only after pressure from journalists and civil liberties advocates, is largely redacted or left blank. The most egregious omissions are the victim’s name and a description of the offense — the fatal shooting of Brown.
“They are breaking the law,” said Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Missouri.
The report, obtained by Yahoo News through the Missouri Sunshine Law, lists only the date, time and location. Fields for the type of incident, name of the complainant, and a summary of the cir stances are redacted.
“I’ve never seen an incident report that didn’t contain a description of the incident, at least on some basic level,” said Don tle, a veteran Texas civil and criminal attorney. “It makes you wonder if they don’t want to commit to a story.”
http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-relea...221844542.html
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