Liliana Segura, AlterNet. September 16, 2009. Tasers aren't 'nonlethal'; they've killed hundreds. With younger people being especially vulnerable to the Taser's shock, the risks could be very deadly.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. August 17, 2009. Police officers are brutalizing innocent civilians with accelerating lunacy. How did this happen? How can we make it stop?
Agence France PresseMay 28, 2009. Amnesty lamented Obama's "limited action" on inhumane detention policies, as well as his inaction on seeking accountability for past abuses.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 2, 2009. Watch out: 50,000-volt Tasers are deployed in London this week; meanwhile, a new model can 'instantly incapacitate' multiple people at a time.
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.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. December 13, 2008. Taser's marketing coup has convinced consumers that there is such a thing as a gun that won't kill. Taser deaths prove otherwise.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 1, 2008. The police have no right to shoot people with electricity for having a "bad attitude."
Bill Weinberg, AlterNet. July 30, 2008. As activists continue to fight for people's rights to keep their homes in New Orleans, repression by local authorities is brutal.
Sanjay Suri, IPS News. May 29, 2008. From police tasers to Gitmo, a recent report by Amnesty International takes the United States to task on human rights.
Danielle Egan, The Tyee. May 13, 2008. Police explain to a journalist who wants to know what being tasered feels like, "we really don't fully understand and know the risks."
Pam Spaulding, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. March 23, 2008. The mounting incidents of violence being perpetrated by the inappropriate use of Tasers is unnerving.
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: Video. March 20, 2008. And in the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not department, we’ve got a case of someone in Austrailia being tased for "aggressive language."
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend AlterNet: PEEK. February 1, 2008. Yes, the carnage caused by miscreants in the ranks of law enforcement sworn to protect and serve the public continues unabated.
GottaLaff, Brave New Films AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2007. GottaLaff: What a fine, upstanding paragon of unbiased reporting. What a rational individual! Be proud.
