Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Health and Wellness. September 26, 2009. Every American needs to realize that if they look at a police officer sideways they will be shot with electricity regardless of whether the officer has other choices.
David Edwards, John Byrne, Raw Story AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 3, 2009. A noise complaint to police results in another senseless act of brutality.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 24, 2009. Is the government is allowed to shoot citizens with electricity solely because they fail to do what agents of the government tell them to do?
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 13, 2009. Here are two stories about the torture of teenagers by police with tasers ... one of whom died.
Adrienne Maree Brown Brown, RaceWire AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 8, 2009. "As I write this, rumors are flying and media is fanning the riot flames."
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 6, 2009. See, the problem isn't the form of gun cops use, a stun gun or one with bullets. It's that they use any gun on people who are already down.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 26, 2008. Finally, someone has written a thoughtful argument against tasers in a mainstream newspaper. But for some it is too little too late.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 10, 2008. In Oklahoma, a driver goes into severe diabetic shock, but instead of getting help, he's tasered and then handcuffed.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 1, 2008. The police have no right to shoot people with electricity for having a "bad attitude."
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 28, 2008. A lawyer was stunned with a Taser twice this afternoon after he became upset at a Tampa Code Enforcement Board meeting
Bryan Farrell, Voices of Central Pennsylvania. October 2, 2008. Military culture is taking hold of universities, which defense researchers are using to develop weapons like puke rays and acoustic bazookas.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 30, 2008. "The police must have felt overwhelmed and would naturally need to taser the groom or risk having to use deadly force instead."
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: PEEK. May 5, 2008. A Summit County judge ordered the county medical examiner to delete any reference that Tasers contributed to the deaths of three Ohio men.
Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 19, 2007. Manila Ryce: The victim is shown being tasered on videotape even after he was handcuffed.
Alex Jung, AlterNet: Video. September 25, 2007. Alex Jung: Angry students and faculty call for the firing of a college newspaper editor at their own peril.
Silja J.A. Talvi, In These Times. November 18, 2006. Long touted as a safer alternative to handguns for law enforcement, tasers are potentially deadly weapons that have a growing history of abuse by police and security guards.
