{"id":30695,"date":"2012-10-18T19:31:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T01:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/hardly-any-shock-here-save-to-the-victim.html"},"modified":"2012-10-22T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:58:30","slug":"hardly-any-shock-here-save-to-the-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/hardly-any-shock-here-save-to-the-victim.html","title":{"rendered":"Hardly any shock here, save to the victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the idea of tasers was a good one — that there had to be some sort of \u00a0way for police to force compliance that didn't involve (a) choke holds that could kill, (b) braining someone with a billy club, or (c) shooting them.<\/p>\n

The problem is, as has been seen countless times, some police, given a (usually) non-lethal alternative seem more than willing to use it willy-nilly. "If it doesn't leave broken bones or dead bodies, it must be okay to use it freely, right? Right?"<\/p>\n

With great power comes great\u00a0responsibility\u00a0…<\/i><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAn innocent blind man with a white stick has been shot in the back by police with a 50000-volt Taser after officers mistook it for a samurai sword. Colin Farmer, 61, was hit following reports of a man…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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So the idea of tasers was a good one — that there had to be some sort of \u00a0way for police to force compliance that didn't involve (a) choke holds that could kill, (b) braining someone with a billy club, or (c) shooting them. 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Use of force by officers fell by almost 60 percent over the same period.\"Um ...\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42251,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/filmingrecording-the-police-is-still-legal-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":30695,"position":2},"title":"Filming\/recording the police is (still) legal (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-May-14 12:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"You'd think they'd get the message, but courts keep having to tell them otherwise.\ufeff Court upholds \u201cFirst Amendment\u201d right to film police Ruling is one of many nationwide supporting right to record police. 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