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Tasers and Torture
Submitted by Glen Allport on Wed, 2009-08-12 16:00
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"There is ample evidence that police often take no more than 30 seconds to talk to citizens before employing the taser, they use them while people are already handcuffed and thus present no danger, and are used often against the mentally ill and handicapped. It is becoming a barbaric tool of authoritarian, social control." Salon guest-blogger "digby" comments on the increasing use and acceptance of torture in America.
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