The Seminal » Day of Blogging for Justice: Standing Up Against the Police Pre-Trial Electrocution

By: Villager Thursday April 23, 2009 11:10 am

Villagers, have you noticed the continued taser murders of Black children, men and women by police officers around the nation?

The UN’s Committee Against Torture has declared that taser use can constitute a form of torture, while USA: Amnesty International has an ongoing concern about the use of tasers. In the view of the AfroSpear, the issue of Black people being tortured with tasers rivals the current political discussions about the Bush torture memos and torture in the United States.

The AfroSpear is calling on all bloggers to join us in a Day of Blogging for Justice: Standing Up Against the Police Pre-Trial Electrocution on Friday, April 24, 2009.

The rules are simple:

Share a post on your blog focused on your concerns about the tasering of Blacks folks.
Send an email to AfricanAmericanPoliticalPundit@gmail.com so that we may document everyone’s participation.

I hope that we can count on the blogging community to step up and support this blogging campaign. Here are some examples of what bloggers have been reporting on the police pre-trial electrocution:

Afro-Netizen – Taser Death of Black man by White cop near Jean …
Black Voices – 21st Century Whips
Diane Dimond – The 50-Thousand Volt Solution
Electronic Village – Police Taser 16-Year Old Robert Mitchell to Death
Electronic Village – Taser Policy Defined by ‘Use of Force Continuum’
Jack and Jill Politics – A Day of Blogging for Justice – Against Extra-Judicial …
Mondoglobo – Lousiana Police Electrocute Handcuffed Man in Grocery Store

Pam’s House Blend – NC: More Freestyle Law Enforcement Death-by-TaserProblem Chylde – Tasing as Deadly ForceRace Wire – Black Teenager Killed by Cop’s TaserTasered While Black – Black Man Pepper Sprayed, Batoned, Tased …Tasered While Black – Police Taser and Kill Black Man and Laugh About ItTasered While Black – Black Man Tased and Beaten in Peoria, IL.The Super Spade – Tasered While BlackUltraviolet Underground – Electrocuted While Black

I hope that bloggers will participate and I hope that blog readers will read, comment and support our Day of Blogging for Justice: Standing Up Against the Police Pre-Trial Electrocution on Friday, April 24, 2009.

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john in sacramento April 23rd, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Hi Villager

Thanks for spotlighting this. People think that tasers are non-lethal – which if you read the report below is singularly based on the industry’s non-independent studies – but there is all kinds of evidence that it they are lethal

http://www.aclunc.org/news/pre…..ives.shtml

The ACLU-NC published a report in 2005 in which they compiled statistics from 1999 – 2004 and found that …

Since 1999, at least 148 people in the United States and Canada have died after encounters with police who shocked them with Tasers. More than half of those deaths occurred in the past year, of which 15 took place in northern and central California.

And also

Even more disturbing is the finding that only four departments restrict the number of times an officer may fire a Taser at a suspect. Several of the California victims were Tased repeatedly before they died, including Andrew Washington of Vallejo, who was Tased 17 times in three minutes.

That comes out to almost six times per minute. Imagine being water boarded six times per minute. Head slammed into a wall six times per minute. Etc. … six times per minute

Full report in pdf