As a Canadian citizen I am embarrased to by the way the police acted at the airport with the Polish immigarnt. My sincere appoligies to you and my heart goes out to you as from one mother to another. Sometimes our children are not “perfect but they are still our children and we love them just the same. That is what good mothering is all about. Unconditional love.

I am white not black but to me is does not matter. You are who you are because God made you that way and no one can help the color they were born with. Men who mark a difference by color should be ashamed of them selves and will find on judgment day that they will be held responsible for their actions.

Actions by the Police Forces like the ones taken with tassers on people with NO JUST CAUSE as in the case of the pregnant lady or the Polish immigrant, or John Peters 68yrs who was just making money delivering papers, (whose wife explained to the police that he had a neurological problem)and the officer still tassered him like he was playing with a new toy. (Big police man tassers 68 year old 5’6″ senior citzen for parking offence)are all SAS COMEMTARY on life as we know it today….WAKE UP SOCOIETY and tell the Police that they are there to protect us not to abuse their power over us. If we don’t speak up we have only our selves to blame when we become a POLICE STATE. Let’s tell them that brutality to the regular citizen and visiters to our country is not going to be tolerted.

The reason why this woman wanted to give up her child was because the child’s father is abusive and kept coming after this woman. I believe she has a restraining order against him. He’s harassed her so much, that she finally decided to get rid of her last link to him, her child. Apparently the police officer she was talking to was very hostile towards her, asking her questions meant to shame her about giving up the child. She perceived that she would get no help at the police station, and turned to go. After she was tackled to the ground the officer told her to give him her other arm, but she couldn’t, because she was laying on it and his weight prevented her from moving. Since she didn’t ‘comply’ by giving her arm she was considered ‘resisting arrest’ and then he used the taser on the back of her neck.

The media is portraying it from the victims perspective.

Yes, we need to ban Tasers *now*, but cops will find other ways to torture and abuse civilians. Police forces are still overwhelmingly male, and the attitude I’ve seen in most male cops – and in nearly every white male cop – is one of a dude on a giant power trip. Rarely do I think that a man joins a police force for altruistic reasons (wanting to help his community), even if that’s what they profess initially, their actions show otherwise.

Maybe I’m all wet on this, but it seems to me that patriarchy uses racism as one of its tools of oppression; it’s not men that are on top, it’s white men who are on top. It seems that white men are encouraged to wield their power in the harshest way against women of color, and police forces do everything in their power to encourage that behavior. If tasers aren’t available, nightsticks, rape, bullets in the back will do.

I note also, that the level of police harassment against trans women of color is appalling; there’s probably a whole bunch of tasering incidents that we don’t know about, because even many progressives don’t care about that population and don’t report on such incidents.

Although my being white might protect me somewhat, the fact that I am trans means that I’m more likely to be tortured in this way. I don’t trust the police the least bit.

BTW, this is why I support Second Amendment rights (odd for a progressive, but I’m not the only one), even though I don’t own a gun. I say this from a perspective that police do little to protect people – especially those of oppressed groups – from crime.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/18/taser.death/index.html

So many incidents in so short a time by law enforcement by the use of a supposed non-lethal weapon? And what happens if someone who is tased is wearing pacemaker, for instance, to say nothing of being pregnant? Just a shitty weapon for cops to have.

What is wrong with people??