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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 12:41 AM
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Idaho man sodomized by police Taser plans to sue
A Boise, Idaho, police officer who pushed a Taser inside a man’s buttocks and threatened to “Taser his balls” violated use-of-force policy, but didn’t break the law, an ombudsman has found.

The man in question, whose identity is being withheld, plans to sue the Boise police.

On February 14 of this year, the “complainant,” as he is called in police reports, physically blocked the door to his residence when police arrived to investigate a domestic disturbance. Believing the police officers, who he claims did not identify themselves, to be a person coming to “beat him up,” he refused to allow them entry.

When officers forced their way in, “three officers rushed in and within nine seconds, had the man face down on the floor and had deployed the Taser against the small of his back. Only after the first did they order his hands behind his back,” reports the Boise Weekly.

In a report, Boise Community Ombudsman Pierce Murphy “said the officer who used the Taser — described as Officer #3 in the report — also coarsely threatened to use the Taser in the man’s anus and genitals. Murphy’s report says that use of Taser on a man’s buttock’s does not violate policy in and of itself,” reports the Idaho Statesman.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/25/idaho-man-sodomized-by-police-taser-plans-to-sue/
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 12:43 AM
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1. But the cop may have been trying to HELP him!
NOT!

But you can bet we'll have some cop groupies trying to explain away this criminal act.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 12:49 AM
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2. ...but didn't break the law..???
What would he have needed to do to "break the law"? Stick it up his butt until sparks flew out his eyeballs??
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 07:49 AM
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18. OMG rofl
:rofl:

This is a bad situation but the visual...
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 12:51 AM
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3. GOOD
I can't believe that cop is still walking the beat
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47of74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 12:53 AM
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4. Law enforcement agencies need to
Make anyone who carries a taser, mace, etc etc undergo a full strength test, with no mats, and with no one to catch them at least once every few years.
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:31 AM
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8. It doesn't matter much. They suck the empathy out if any comes with the cadet.
They think the shit is funny. They know it sucks but the experience doesn't carry over to the next person at all.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:55 AM
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14. There's a song, by Leon Rosselson(the great English songwriter)
Edited on Tue Jul-28-09 02:10 AM by Ken Burch
Called "Whoever Invented the Fishfinger?"("fish fingers" being the British term for what we call fish sticks). In the first verse, Rosselson describes the process by which a fish is transformed into a fish stick, then carries the metaphor through, in the last verse, to the process of training law enforcement personnel:

Whoever invented the Policeman,
ought to be licked into shape.
Toughened and trained, 'til the body's a cane
'til the arms are a chain, 'til the nerves feel no pain,
'til obedience rules and encircles the brain,
With walls so he'll never escape.

Because who'd do that to a child,
jumping with joy and desire.
Floating in fantasies, drowning in dreams,
Brimming with feelings of fire.

And progress, is all very well,
but not when it locks up our dreams.
And it's hard to feel, at ease in the world,
when nothing is what it seems.

Seems to pretty much describe the process you speak of in your post.
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obliviously Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:15 AM
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5. I know people
that would pay good money to have that done!
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:21 AM
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6. Probably happens at really exclusive parties in SoHo all the time
Edited on Tue Jul-28-09 01:22 AM by Ken Burch
And I wonder if Skull And Bones will be working this into their initiation rituals?

(still, if you WEREN'T looking forward to it...major, major OWWWWWWIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!)
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:28 AM
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7. Yes, in the annals of the GOP, Vitter has to pay extra for that.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:42 AM
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10. In the, er...."annals"....?
n/t.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:47 AM
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12. Yes. See definition below.
Edited on Tue Jul-28-09 01:49 AM by TexasObserver
an⋅nals  /ˈænlz/ Show Spelled Pronunciation Show IPA
Use annals in a Sentence
–noun (used with a plural verb) 1. a record of events, esp. a yearly record, usually in chronological order.
2. historical records generally: the annals of war.
3. a periodical publication containing the formal reports of an organization or learned field.

In the GOP records of weird sexual practices, their annals on such.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:51 AM
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13. It does have a certain irony, given VItter's OWN preferrred kink
"Annals" being spelled very similarly to...well, er, something else.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:56 AM
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15. I'm speculating he gets tased when he doesn't make a number two right.
Honestly, isn't it obvious to these guys yet that rightwing fundamentalist religions create these kind of kinks? They're all about guilt, shame and punishment, the Holy Trinity of thumpers.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:59 AM
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16. And you end up with Mel Gibson making an S&M flick about Jesus
n/t.
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Seldona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:40 AM
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9. Shocking!
'Murphy’s report says that use of Taser on a man’s buttock’s does not violate policy in and of itself,” reports the Idaho Statesman.'

I hope he sues them into bankruptcy. I would be demanding a formal change in policy as part of the lawsuit.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 01:43 AM
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11. And I REALLY hope they sterilize those taser leads before they re-use them.
...just sayin'...
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 04:06 AM
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17. kick
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 10:14 AM
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19. one more kick
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B3Nut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-28-09 10:50 AM
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20. If he gets a good enough attorney
he'll be able to pull at least a few torts out of this...I hope he takes these douchenozzles to the cleaners.

Todd in Cheesecurdistan
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