Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Here we go again. In Creston, Iowa, a relatively minor charge, disorderly conduct, that usually results with a person spending time in the clink (if that), turned into a man dying outside the jail 15 minutes after being released.The Division of Criminal Investigation says an autopsy on 59-year-old Ronald Adkisson is complete, but additional tests, including toxicology, are being done. Adkisson was found not breathing on the sidewalk Monday evening. He died at the scene. Hours earlier, Creston p
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
Policeman Indicted for Death by Taser by Steven D Fri Aug 15th, 2008 at 02:47:09 PM EST You may recall my story last month about the Winnfield, La. African American man who died after a white police officer tasered him 9 times after he was already in custody. Well that police officer, Scott Nugent has now been indicted by a Winn Parrish Grand Jury for Pike’s murder. Ruling in a racially explosive case that some forensic experts have described as police torture, a grand jury in the small Lo
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
“Police in the city of Winnfield, Louisiana are being accused of covering up the death of twenty-one-year-old Baron Pikes. He died in police custody on January 21 after being shot nine times with a taser gun while in handcuffs. The city police chief initially claimed that Pikes was high on crack cocaine and PCP at the time of his death. But the coroner recently ruled Pikes’ death to be a homicide, after an autopsy determined there were no drugs in his system.” Click here for the full story.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Baron Pikes, a 21-year-old Louisiana man who died — cuffed and in police custody — after being tasered nine times, is not the first black man to die in police custody from excessive Taser use. He won’t be the last. And then there are countless others who are shot with police Tasers — read: electrocuted — excessively and unnecessarily. Police love Tasers because they are supposedly non-lethal weapons that keep police officers safe from unruly detainees without actually killing said detainees.
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
by Damozel | Via Digby, yet another tragic tale of death-by-tasering in circumstances in which the death penalty wouldn’t have been an option if the offense were prosecuted. Why aren’t people up in arms about this? You don’t have to believe that a tasering is torture to see that there is something wrong with the way they’re being used—i.e., in situations where the police would not have been justified in using a weapon of any kind to subdue or control a person. In fact, that seems to be
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