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U.S. police could get ‘pain beam’ weapons
by David Hambling A modified version of this laser rifle created to dazzle enemies by the U.S. Air Force has been adapted by the Department of Justice to inflict pain from a distance. – Photo: U.S. Air...
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No funds for tasers or war criminals: Stop state violence in San Francisco...
by Ann Garrison Julian Davis, president of the Booker T. Washington Service Center, asked the Police Commission to consider the role of tasers in the Oscar Grant shooting and to consider...
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No Tasers for San Francisco police!
Famed police accountability attorney John Burris testifies at the San Francisco Police Commission’s Feb. 23 hearing on arming the police force with Tasers. The hearing room was filled to capacity, and...
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The police state’s lawyers: Meyers Nave
by Matthew Jackson The very first protest against the BART police murder of Oscar Grant was held at the BART board meeting only four days later, on Jan. 5, 2009. – Photo: Frederic Larson, San Francisco...
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SFPD facing people in crisis: No gun, no taser! Talk ‘em down
by Carol Harvey On Aug. 1, 2012, following the police shooting of a mentally ill man, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, like chiefs before him, attempted for the fourth time in a decade – without...
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The vortex of dementia
by Abdul Olugbala Shakur, s/n James Harvey Drawing by an unidentified prisoner Though I have been active in the struggle for practically all my life, from a Panther cub to an urban guerrilla in the...
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SFPD chief invites the community into the taser debate, shuts down people of...
by Carol Harvey On Aug. 19, Police Chief Greg Suhr scheduled six community forums in September and October to discuss his reasons for asking Police Commission approval to spend hundreds of thousands of...
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San Francisco Mental Health Board passes ‘no tasers’ resolution 9-2
by Carol Harvey At its Wednesday, Nov. 14, meeting, the San Francisco Mental Health Board welcomed public comment before voting 9 to 2 to pass its resolution against putting Conducted Energy Devices,...
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Cleveland PD murders unarmed Black couple, firing 137 shots
by Amir Khalid A. Samad, Peace in the Hood Tim Russell’s car was surrounded by dozens of police evidence markers indicating bullets, shells or other pieces of evidence. – Photo: Marvin Fong, Cleveland...
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ACLU opposes SFPD taser deployment
by Carol Harvey A Dec. 4, 2012, American Civil Liberties Union letter to San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee urged rejecting any SFPD proposal “to deploy tasers or other conductive energy devices” and codified...
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Build a movement to close solitary confinement
by Mumia Abu-Jamal You may think that you know something about solitary, but you don’t. You may have a loved one in prison who has experienced it and told you about it. But still I say, you don’t know...
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Justice for Kevin Clark! Stop racist police brutality!
by the ANSWER Coalition With a banner reading “From the Mission District to the whole Bay Area – Stop Racist Police Brutality,” over 300 community members rallied against the most recent case of police...
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I have a pen and I could probably kill you with it: Official absurdities and...
by Jeremy Miller Click to enlarge, print and share. On Thursday, Oct. 24, San Francisco State President Leslie E. Wong and other university officials of met with students in an utterly under-advertised...
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Tasers in Berkeley?
by Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News broadcast Oct. 10, 2015 http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/GARRISON-ON-BPD-TASERS.mp3 Both the Richmond and BART Police Departments sent taser advocates...
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‘To Protect and Serve Who?’ Mumia’s new pamphlet on organizing to abolish...
by Suzanne Ross Internationally renowned political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has just published a brilliant 15-page pamphlet about the challenge of the period we’re living in in this country: the...
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Expert: Stun guns are far from being a ‘nonlethal’ alternative to bullets
by Paul Kleyman San Francisco – In the wake of public outcry over the latest police shooting, of Mario Woods, an unarmed African American, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr has revived his previous...
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National Lawyers Guild calls for SFPD accountability, not tasers
For the fifth time in recent years, SFPD, currently led by Chief Greg Suhr, formerly the captain at the Bayview police station near where Mario Woods was murdered, is calling for officers to be armed...
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Fighting the system: The Alex Nieto trial lost in the courts, won in the...
by Tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Poor News Network A mama’s son riddled with 59 bullets from a colonizer’s gun / 59 bullets fired by slave-catchers and gentrifier glances. “The story the cops had was just...
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Shooting of homeless man shows need for sincere change in SFPD
by Lisa Marie Alatorre, Coalition on Homelessness San Francisco – A shooting by police officers of a homeless man camping on Shotwell Street near 18th Street occurred in the Mission Thursday, April 7....
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Seeing the problem, being the solution, making the sacrifice
Part VII: Campaign to Redistribute the Pain 2018 by Bennu Hannibal Ra-Sun, formerly known as Melvin Ray, Free Alabama Movement Last month, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, millions of people diverted their...
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