Andymatic

Category: 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

  • Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Tasered 10 Times

    Trifecta: “One, she’s in a wheelchair. Two, she’s schizophrenic. Three, they’re using a Taser on a person that’s in a wheelchair, and then four is that they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutes,” Alexander said. According to a police report, one of the officers used her Taser gun nine times […]

  • Senate Votes to Not Restore Habeas Corpus

    Yes it happened last week – just filing it here for future reference. Senators voted 56-43 in favor of the bill, but the final tally was short of the 60 votes needed under Senate rules for it to move forward. The bill would have restored the ancient writ of habeas corpus to inmates, giving them […]

  • Woman Hog-Tied, Blindfolded and Tasered

    And she was already in prison: Norman “was handcuffed, leg shackled, hog-tied, blindfolded and tasered numerous times,” according to a news release issued by her her attorneys, John Lewright and Robert Foulke. Lewright said Monday the Taser incident was recorded by a video camera in the booking area, although he had yet to receive a […]

  • 17 Year-Old Dies After Being Tasered

    He wanted Jesus: Police officers responded around 8:56 p.m. Saturday to the 600 block of South State Street to find a man holding a Bible and a cordless phone yelling, “I want Jesus!” The subject was later identified as Holyfield. Officers attempted to speak to Holyfield, but he became combative toward officers and would not […]

  • Marine in Haditha 'Ordered to Kill Women and Children'

    This is terrible: “I told him there were women and kids inside there. He said ‘Well, shoot them,”’ Lance-Cpl Mendoza told prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Sean Sullivan. “And what did you say to him?” Lt-Col Sullivan asked. “I said ‘But they’re just women and children.’ He didn’t say nothing.”

  • LAPD Provoked May Day Crowd by Riding Motorcycles Into Crowd

    ‘Los Angeles Police and the May Day parade 2007 – cops claiming the crowd had forced the police to attack. New video just released – the police started it by riding their motorcycles at the crowd.’ (via Reddit) [youtube]Dcrj6RVdy9k[/youtube]

  • Padilla's Conviction "One Step Away From a Thought Crime"

    (Don’t forget that Ashcroft’s original ‘dirty bomber’ charges were dropped since the evidence either didn’t exist in the first place, or fell apart) The central charge against Mr. Padilla was that he conspired to murder, maim and kidnap people in a foreign country. “There is no need to show any particular violent crime,” said Robert […]

  • Al Qaeda Lecture – The New Yorker's Lawrence Wright at Princeton

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  • London Police Witheld Info Over Man Shot in the Head Seven Times

    A senior British police officer withheld information from superiors and misled the public after learning that police wrongly killed a Brazilian electrician, mistaking him for a terrorist, an inquiry into the killing reported Thursday. The Independent Police Complaints Commission report said that Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman, head of London’s police counterterrorism unit, allowed the police […]

  • Armed Robots Patrol Bagdad

    Can we treat the Iraqi people with just a little bit more contempt? The robots are currently being piloted through the streets of Bagdad using remote control. According to an interview on CNET with Chief Army Scientist Thomas Killion however, the army soon plans to make the killing machines fully automatic. “The FCS [Future Combat […]