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"They tortured him"; police used Taser on special needs teen for breaking window before shooting him

Thurau's nationwide examination of decades of lawsuits involving Tasers, also called "Conducted Electrical Weapons," found the devices were used on a disproportionate number of children of color and children with disabilities.

Washington says her son fits that description and attends a specialized school.

"A 14-year-old. A special needs 14-year-old, who has disorders, who do not understand what is going on," she said.

"They tortured him"; police used Taser on special needs teen for breaking window before shooting himhttps://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/sauk-village-police-taser-14-year-old-special-needs-broken-window/Open linkView original on kbin.social
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Hundreds of Women File Rape Lawsuits Against New York City Jails

Like other plaintiffs talked to by THE CITY, Baez said she never filed a formal complaint while she was locked up because she was “scared, alone, and I had no one.”

“I thought people would judge me and say I liked it,” she said, “and that’s why it kept happening.”

While she was in Rikers, she began to believe that’s what God intended to happen to her.

“I started to believe that this is part of my life,” she said, “to be raped and used like a sex slave.”

Hundreds of Women File Rape Lawsuits Against  New York City Jailshttps://www.thecity.nyc/2023/11/09/hundreds-of-women-file-rape-lawsuits-against-city-jails/Open linkView original on kbin.social
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A grandmother was fatally shot in her car by an officer. It’s not his force’s only deadly encounter under scrutiny

She was sitting in her car before dawn last month when a uniformed police officer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, accused her and her passenger of trespassing, then shouted commands laced with the F-word at her and threatened to arrest her, “tase” her and make her life “a living hell” if she didn’t comply with his plan to investigate.

A grandmother was fatally shot in her car by an officer. It’s not his force’s only deadly encounter under scrutinyhttps://www.cnn.com/las-cruces-police-federal-lawsuit/index.htmlOpen linkView original on kbin.social
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A mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months. (Spoiler: Run over by a cop.)

The last time she’d seen her middle child, Dexter Wade, 37, was on the night of March 5, as he left home with a friend. She reported him missing, and Jackson police told her they’d been unable to find him, she said.

It wasn’t until 172 excruciating days after his disappearance that Bettersten learned the truth: Dexter had been killed less than an hour after he’d left home, struck by a Jackson police car as he crossed a nearby interstate highway. Police had known Dexter’s name, and hers, but failed to contact her, instead letting his body go unclaimed for months in the county morgue.

Now it was early October, and Bettersten had finally been told where she could find her son.

They bounced down the road and curved into the woods, crawling past clearings where rows of small signs jutted from the earth, each marked with a number.

A mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months. (Spoiler: Run over by a cop.)https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bettersten-wade-dexter-jackson-mississippi-police-missing-rcna121697Open linkView original on kbin.social
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Elijah McClain said 'I can't breathe' 7 times as he was lying handcuffed on the ground, prosecutor says

“Listen to Elijah’s words,” prosecutor Jonathan Bunge said as police body camera video was played. “When Elijah is on the ground handcuffed, he’s saying over and over and over again, ‘I can’t breathe. Please help me.’”

But instead of helping him, Bunge said, Aurora Police Officer Randy Roedema and his former colleague, Jason Rosenblatt, ignored McClain's pleas for help and told arriving paramedics that he had been resisting and had "crazy strength."

Then the paramedics gave McClain a sedative "as he was drifting closer and closer to death," Bunge said in Adams County District Court.

Elijah McClain said 'I can't breathe' 7 times as he was lying handcuffed on the ground, prosecutor sayshttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/elijah-mcclain-said-cant-breathe-7-lay-handcuffed-prosecutor-says-rcna108006Open linkView original on kbin.social
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