Written by Johnny Israel
johnny@cityroompress.com
Most Police Officers are honest, decent, hard working people that take their oath of upholding the law seriously.
However there are a few rogue officers that see themselves as Wyatt Earp of the modern frontier.
(Taser first, cover-up later)
Let’s take the case of Malaika Brooks, an eight month pregnant woman that was Tasered by
Seattle police officer Juan Ornelas for refusing to sign a traffic ticket.
The eight months pregnant, Ms Brooks was rushing her son to school, when she was stopped by Officer, Juan Ornelas, for speeding. The officer ordered Ms. Brooks to sign the traffic ticket he had issued, however, the pregnant woman refused to sign the ticket because she felt she wasn’t speeding. A verbal confrontation ensued, and when Ms. Brooks continued her refusal to sign the ticket, Officer Ornelas, Tasered the pregnant woman with a 50,000 volt stun gun in the presence of her infant child, then charged her with resisting arrest.
Nationwide 131 people have died from stun gun trigger happy police officers. It is estimated that nearly one thousand stun gunned victims have been hospitalized for serious bodily injury due to police officers reckless regard for citizens’ safety. Of the 131 stun gun deaths, 80% were for misdemeanor traffic violations.
The police charge that Tasering is an effective tool that benefits the police and public. They claim Tasers have no harmful side effects, except a temporary disabling of citizens they arrest. A 50,000 volt Taser not only disables a person, medical research clearly shows that the central nervous system, including the brain stem, endures minor, if not, irreparable damage. In Ms. Brooks’ case, she suffered serious burns from the Taser, and nerve cell damage to the brain and throughout her systemic nerve cells.
According to the Department of Justice’s records, law enforcement agents have Tasered children as young as seven. Scores of pregnant women, such as Ms. Brooks were Tasered by police officers without any health regards to the unborn child. In twenty recorded cases, the unborn child was either breached, still born; brain damaged, or encountered some other life threatening health issue.
Recently, I encountered first hand as three burly policemen approached a young boy in a Wyatt Earp fashion, for a simple misdemeanor warrant. Two of the officers held their hands on their stun guns, while the other officer called for backup. As it turned out, the warrant was nothing more than a simple violation for walking his pet without a pet license. The poor boy was frightened out of his mind as the officers told him that any sudden move would result in a 50,000 volt Taser. The child was handcuffed, and hauled off to jail for not licensing his pet. Is this what America’s society has come too? If 131 men, women, and children were gunned down by the police for simple misdemeanors, we’d all be outraged. Yet that is exactly what has happened, only it wasn’t a police special or a 357 magnum, it was something just as worse: 50,000 volts of electricity fried 131 people to death by police stun guns.
While Americans all have the highest regards for police officers that uphold the law, it is the “Dirty Harry” cops, the trigger happy Taser rogues that give law enforcement their rotten image. Without restraints, police officers are nothing but sadistic government agents. Unless laws are enacted to protect the public from Taser happy cops, it won’t be long before we all cry out, “Don’t Taser me bro.”
