Sad story...but it's nothing new. They will NEVER stop

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Wells, geez wiz. Gets Off'cer Nugent a job at GITMO. Hees can 'lectricute alls dee browns peoples hees wants ta downs dare!
Yeehawww!

Seriously, Officer Nugent is acting like the typical American in charge --he has the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT to literally torture innocent people to death.

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around bashing African Americans to convince the racist whites that he is loyal to the status quo.

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Ok.. that works out to less than a minute and a half between tazer bursts. This is a weapon meant to incapacitate, so no surprise he didn't get up quick enough after the first blast.

And really... don't we usually just pull people up if they don't stand up fast enough when they are already cuffed????

This pig should definitely be charged with manslaughter at the very least.

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named Nugent.

jdfu!

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Bush has legalized torture, so Nugent was within the Bush law by torturing (tasering) poor Pikes to death. After all, Nugent is white, so that carries some superiority, doesn't it?

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...we take into account where we travel across racist America. We don't stop in out of the way gas stations, and we always gas up where there is a gas pump with pay-at-the-pump. That way we gas up and leave quickly.

The other potential hazard are the police, which we are always worried about. So we try not to travel with anything resembling a weapon near us nor we make any body movements that are deemed threatening to the cops when we are stopped.

In case people don't know, being tasered is very similar to being cardioverted, that is "shocked" as in an AED. An AED is used to send a certain amount of joules to in hopes that it will revert the hearts electro conductivity to a normal rhythm. If used incorrectly, it will cause the opposite of what it was intended to do. Don't kid yourself, tasers are nothing more than high powered AED's that will kill you if you are exposed long enough. It's too bad the courts were too stupid to take into account medical expertise at the time.

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... you had it coming!

I mean, he might have actually responded to SOCIAL SKILLS rather than hostility, dominance & violence...

Taser-wielding RCMP officer 'like kid with new toy,' woman says: 'He couldn't wait to use it' wife claims of Mountie who shocked her husband, 68

One-third of people shot by Taser need medical attention: probe

RCMP e-mails throw Dziekanski Taser probe into question

Taser Shock Triggers Fire in Man's Pants

Ottawa parents lodge complaint after son, 10, handcuffed by police-for playing his video games too loudly

Police oblivious to pain Tasers inflict: RCMP complaints commissioner

Who Da Bitch Now?
...You found you a Haitian
Brought him down to the station
You boinked him with a broomstick
As a Standard Operation
You thought you’d hide your violence
Behind that big Blue Wall Of Silence
But now you’re roomin’
With some of the bitches you’ve been broomin’
I applaud the situation, but I wouldn’t take a bow
Just tell me, officer, Who Da Bitch Now?... - Eric 'The Red' Schwartz

Getting tased: 3050 New York Police Department sergeants (~10 % of NYPD officers) are adding the M-26 Taser

The TASER Foundation Launches “Drive to Remember” to Raise Awareness About Officers Killed in the Line of Duty

thought I'd drop you a note to tell you about an interesting interaction I had with TaserCorp's 'we love cops, so BUY TASERS!!' promotion representative in Canada.

The Logical Fallacy Squad is represented & partially sponsored in Canada by Best Western... promoting a harmful, trigger-anxiety reducing solution for Canada's police through emotion-laiden & illogical false dichotomies which ignores both social psychological studies & a Canadian survey indicating that 3/4 of the 500+ police taserings were done upon the unarmed.

Polite, direct & professionally factual, I itemized to Mr.Prystay (GM of Sands hotel) why I would no longer stay at Best Western hotels.

His response was to begin screaming maniacally into the phone, "FUCKyouFUCKYOUfuckYOU, you BITCH!" repeatedly into the phone, until I hung up.

...verily, the epitome of a rational spokesperson advocating a measured response to anxiety-producing social interaction.


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This book has given me a whole new appreciation for just how White America fully enslaved Black America. How they used the census to bolster slavery. How they denied the possibility of their own progeny (their half-Black children) to be their's. How they first claimed it was the strength of the African that made us perfect for slavery, then how our weakness made it a necessity for slavery to continue. If Blacks have continued to internalized the slave experience, what would you call the mindset of people who descended from lunatics? And I am by no means only talking about Southern Whites, afterall Delaware was a southern state at one time. I had no idea until I began reading this book that Blacks have been violated in every way in America. From grave robbing to forced participation to being lyed to for medical experimentation. False claims that Whites have made from the beginning about Blacks, things like we are promiscious even in light of having to submit to the White man's sexual advances. These things may be ingrained in the Black psyche, but don't you think they are ingrained in Whites as well?

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Sounds like officer Nugent is a God Damn sadist and would get along famously with those inside the local prison for the rest of his misbegotten life.

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Everytime a cop kills someone I hear about how 'they put their lives on the line for us'. They seem unable to control a situation and they take the path of least resistance, which is to harm or kill someone simply because they can. More time and effort is spent covering their butts and lying than in making sure they know how to handle situations. They take on a pack mentality. It was not always like this. Thanks, ANNA

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If you read the original article about this travesty of justice,[click on the highlighted area in the first sentence of this report], you will see the very evil politics of that small town.

Today somewhere in the "boondocks" of New York State, there is a newly appointed Chief of Police. Two years ago he crashed a PD vehicle after an afternoon of drinking while on the job. He evaded the State Police investigating the accident that night, and the Chief at the time was eventually fired for his part in the cover-up.

At the time the citizens were very vocal about the incident, complaining that justice is not equal. Today the silence is deafening.

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THIS is exactly the kind of cop I love to read about in the paper or hear on the news that got shot and killed in the line of duty. And the PIGS wonder why people rejoice everytime some stupid cop gets clipped in the line of Duty!

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This is exactly the kind of stuff that makes me so glad I am out of that line of work. I was a police officer in California for 16 years until a knee injury took me out (Thank God). I was so sick of seeing this kind of thing and never bought into the "US AGAINST THEM" bull crap. I grew up having friends of different ethnic groups. I have a very good friend of 20 years who is black and I never thought about color when growing up. However when I entered the police force I soon became aware of just how predjuice and sterotypical the cops can be. Also it is wide spread how the misuse of force is a day to day event. In my 16 years as a cop I used my baton one time (on a white dude who had hit another in the head with a hammer). I never used my pepper spray and never shot anyone with a gun or a taser. Somehow though I was still able to lead the department in good Felony arrest for 3 years. I saw officers go through pepper spray like it was their daily water supply.The police forces all across california are full of idiots like this guy. What you find is a guy with a very low self esteem issue and actually is a coward. Yes a real pussy. Probably couldn't fight his way out of a Dunkin Dohnut shop. These kind of cops create more problems for theirself then anything. They should be selling shoes at Wal-Mart.

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Police use taser on blind woman with cancer
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Family members are angry and speaking out after Dayton police used a stun gun on a woman who is blind and suffering from cancer. Police said they were looking for a suspect when they knocked on Denise Harris's door Thursday morning. But according to both police and witnesses, things quickly got out of hand and Harris was tased.

"She was able to force herself down on to the floor and not be cooperative, grabbing on to the detective. A taser was dry stunned onto her arm to control her hand movement, then she was cuffed," said Sgt. Charles Anderson.

Her family said she was yelling at officers because she was scared.

"She was terrified. She was extremely terrified," said Harris's niece, Dionna. "She was scared because the person identified themselves as a police officer. But she's been robbed before by someone using the same technique."

They said police used unnecessary force when officers came to the Fernwood Avenue apartment looking for Harris's son, who is wanted. Officers said Harris attacked a detective.

"She's blind and they pulled her off her Futon, handcuffed her and tased her because he said she swung at him. She can't see," said Harris's sister Elvita Harris. "I'm very frustrated and upset. Dayton police need to implement a sensitivity program."

Neighbors said they told officers she was blind and sick.

"It was heartbreaking," Brenda Miles said. "I was almost in tears because I know the lady and I look out for her because she's blind."

Harris was taken to Good Samaritan for treatment.

The officers actions will be investigated, but Sgt. Anderson said Harris should have told them she was scared.

"She does not have to open her door. It was a voluntary thing for her to open her door," he said.

Harris is now facing charges for assault on a police officer and resisting arrest."

Officer Accused Of Threatening Starbucks Managers For Free Coffee
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused.
Lt. Major Garvin, a 15-year veteran, was fired July 8. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Chief Mike Chitwood says Garvin recently failed a polygraph test that he insisted on taking.

The coffeehouse's employees claim that since June 2007, Garvin had visited the store as many as six times a night while on duty. Besides demanding free drinks, workers complained that Garvin also cut in front of paying customers. ..."

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He should be able to fire faster.

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This new toy fits nicely into the hands of "cop mentality". How did they ever keep law and order before tasers? Now, instead of having to be subject to inquiry for shooting, they have the benefit of seeing the victim convulse after each jolt and sometimes up to seven times before "accidently" convulsing to death. What a feeling of power the police must have as they put a jolt into a human being that is cuffed and absolutley no threat.

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This story, like watching the Jerry Springer Show, reveals a clear glimpse of the truth of America, the actual reality of America, its fundamental racism and heartless brutality, through the veil of ideological romanticism and radiant mythology that is usually so thick as to be impenetrable. This is a blatant racist hate crime, a cold-blooded execution. This white man was the judge and executioner of an innocent American citizen. He brought death down upon that hapless victim with insane and arbitrary wrath that is fundamentally as evil or more evil than any of the world's Saddam Husseins. This is a case of lynching with impunity on a open public street in front of witnesses. Do not think that the United States has changed from its historical racist past. That can never happen. By the way, this is also the basis of our foreign policy: kill them. Violence is always celebrated in America as the way of the strong. We have not changed in thousands of years. We are not the new Roman Empire. We are the new Mongol Horde. World: Beware! America will get you all, sooner or later.

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"A brute kills for pleasure, and a fool kills from hate."

Obviously the unspoken requirement for law enforcement (and private mercenaries), especially in the south, is to be a brute and a fool. How else can you "enforce" criminal Corporatist Fascist theology???

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The military and the police departments are under mind control, (brainwashing) and have very little empathy for civilians of any color or creed.
We now live in perilous times and it will only get worse. There is no way for us to stop it.
Time if very short and our freedoms are already gone.
God Bless the American people! We are all as sheep being led to the slaughter.

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the drug laws must be change. its a shame that user get treated the same way as dealers. this man died because the officer had no respect for his life. this is the bottom line. he had no respect for his life. drug user come in many colors shapes and backgrounds. the police offercer must be held acountable for his recless action. government must change the laws so that users are not thought as harded criminals. i was able to get help for my drug habbit but i have good heath insurance.

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The whole town of Winnfield is controlled by one of the most corrupt
councils in the US. They are seemingly so interbred and fathers sons and other relatives all cover the backs of each other though lying.

The one shining light however is the coroner who is attempting to tell the truth, he admits to have a loaded gun by his side wherever he goes alleging his life has been threatened to the extent his offices were recently burnt down.I believe the guy.

FBI to be called in in view of all the revealed corruption?

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"Officer" Nugent is a murderer in spite of his badge. He should stand trial for 1st degree murder.

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Alternet racist? Ha, you just threw away your last chance to deny it.

Of course the brainwashed 20 and 30 somethings on this site define racism as, "white people being mean to brown people", so it's impossible for Alternet to be racist in the eyes of its readers.

Sensationalist race baiting headlines, check.

News about Miley Cyprus, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie, check.

Alternet is officially a tabloid gossip rag.

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This goes on regularly this case just got top press. Many will say, "oh, well this doesn't happen often," and I say it never happened to a loved one of theirs.

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This man should be given to the family of the slain victim to come up with an appropriate punishment for his crimes. I'm sick of judges and jurys succumbing to some lawyer's honeyed reframing of what's obviously cold-blooded murder. Theres no justice served unless the victims are satisfied. Where theres a deficit in justice, prior victims become future aggressors. Thus the crescendo of violence only begets more evil and we never have justice.

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Don't know if anyone is bothering with this thread now, given it's a day old, but I thought you'd all be interested in this story about two cops that appeared this morning on the BBC News. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/7522722.stm

In summary, "Two firearms officers are in hospital after using their own bodies to smother flames engulfing a knife-wielding man who had set himself alight." They could have tased him, or even shot him. But they didn't. They stunned him using a baton round, then smothered the flames with their bodies and hands! Now tell me all cops are bad!

(You'll note "firearms officers ..." That means that, in the UK, our cops are NOT routinely armed. The specialists with guns, tasers and baton round guns are called in only when the unarmed cops are faced with someone brandishing a significant deadly weapon. They don't even usually shoot someone with a knife, either using their night sticks or pepper spray to disarm them. So, how is it we have cops who are not routinely armed but in the US they are? Is it that people in the US are more violent, than they are in the UK? Somehow I doubt that. But are they more dangerous? If they aren't, then your regular cops don't need guns. If they are more dangerous ... why is that? Could it be that's because ordinary Joe's in the UK don;t routinely carry weapons or keep them in their homes? I wonder ...)

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Moreover, Pikes, Didn't Resist Arrest.
Grocery shoppers who witnessed the incident later told Pikes family that he had pleaded with Nugent.

OK. I have resigned myself to the unpleasant fact that the life of a common citizen, especially a black man, doesn't necessarily amount much to some cops, but being tasered nine times and killed for pleading not to be tasered-even as you don't resist arrest still put you at the risk of murder. DAMN!

Animals that have attempted to harm people and ran wild have been put under control with less brutality than this!*Shucks*!

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Then declare a citizen’s arrest. It has worked in other states: Indiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky. But, one warning videotape the arrest. Then take the Officer in a group to the nearest State Holding Jail. Do not release this officer to Police, but to a Geol. keeper or an ELECTED judge not a Pro tem Judge.

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remember the days when police officers were friendly? that day is pretty much gone. there may be a few good cops, but you never know what kind of racist bastard is hidden under that uniform. cops should go through psychiatric testing to see if they are fit for the job morally, rather than just let any highschool dropout get a taser, because we all know where that will lead. Most police officers steal my pot and let me off! I mean, I guess that's ok for me, but in the context of this argument, the cops really aren't doing their job and going home smoking that weed because they've still be doing it since they dropped out of highschool!

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this police officer along with many others should be fired for useing too much excessive force too an individual already in hand cuffs cant resist if youre already handcuffed this case is just like the cariol horn case in buffalo ny where miss horn treid too prevent an white officer from killing a man already handcuffed when she treid too stop him from doing so he then punched his partner cariol horn in the face she was later fired for doeing her job the correct way and not the corrupt way.this man mr pikes will get away with this just like many others whom do harm and the get a slap on the whrist and they still have their jobs do i beleive that cops are here to protect us and serve anymore hell no and to tell you the truth i cant tell a good cop from a bad one nowadays

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use a tactical nuclear weapon to eradicate this town...it is the only way to be sure.

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Let me say this first -- there is no evidence (yet) of racisim as a motive in this case. If you go back to the original story this comes from, the Tribune editors and reporters served up a lousy, slime job on a small town.

Don't mistake me -- any story of police brutality merits attention and scrutiny. But I'm afraid the writer of this piece swallowed a bunch of hogwash masquerading as reporting in a newspaper whose editors should know better.
I am from Winnfield, but haven't lived there since 1970. I have friends and relatives there and still know it relatively well. I do not know Mr. Nugent, Mr. Terrell his attorney, or the victim. This story was certainly "yellow" enough to jaundice the eye of an informed reader.
But before we go off on a witchhunt, let's look at the "facts" in the orignally reported story.
Let’s assume for the moment, the facts of the case as stated by the Tribune's reporter are correct, summarized as follows:
(1) A young black man with a criminal record or at least a reputation for drug use was tasered to death by a white police officer.
(2) The victim was not resisting arrest and was tasered repeatedly after his surrender and while he was handcuffed.
(3) Inconsistent with police reports, the young man was determined post mortem not to be under the influence of drugs at the time.
(4) The police officer in question had a history of using his Taser more than other policeman, and appears to have been in violation of police department policy, for which violation he has been fired by the City Council.
(5) There is a possibility of an attempt to cover up the evidence in the case by the Winnfield Police Department.
(6) The matter is being investigated by the Louisiana State Police, and the District Attorney expects to present the matter to a grand jury.

If so, it is a grievous and brutal crime to have been committed. But, an attempted cover-up by the police department appears to have been exposed, and now responsible authorities are investigating and pursuing the case. It sounds like the right things are happening in response to such a crime.

There is nothing in the story to tie it to a racial motive except a vague accusation by the victim’s grieving mother. It seems elementary that a reporter alleging a violation of civil rights would ask (or more importantly answer) whether the Winnfield police equally brutal to people of all races or did they target minorities? The story conflates a police brutality crime in Winnfield with civil rights crimes in Jena, merely based on the proximity of two towns. This is not event guilt by association – it is guilt by geography!

The story omits that the Winnfield Chief of Police and the patron of the officer in question is black)? There are NO facts in the story to support this crime as due to racism. The sloppy reporting and worse editing did not present facts to support that conclusion and conveniently omit those inconveniently refuting it.

When it comes to political corruption, Winnfield has had its fair share, but it certainly is miniscule by the lofty standards of Chicago. Like every town I've ever been to, Winnfield has some racists, but that does not mean every white on black crime is a hate crime.

While true the past district attorney and police chief took their own lives in separate and unrelated incidents rather than endure the ordeal and scandal of their "crimes" being exposed, that really doesn't relate to the case except the former police chief happened to the be the father of the accused officer. In the South, a sense of "honor" while greatly weakened in the modern age, still commands respect and redeems many sins. These men, if criminals, paid for their crimes.

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legal. This meant alcohol once upon a time. This means drug usage, prostitution, and, perhaps, many lesser behaviors as yet to be defined.

We had police powers pretty well reeled in by the latter 50s and early 60s. But 25 years of republican right wing legislation has about ruined the progress that had been made. It will have to be remade.

But, there is little political will to do so. Bad law makes bad cops.

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