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mises
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 Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 2:59 pm Post subject: London's Police accused of waterboarding suspects |
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6466430.ece
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Metropolitan Police officers subjected suspects to waterboarding, according to allegations at the centre of an anti-corruption inquiry.
The torture claims are part of an investigation which also includes accusations that evidence was fabricated and suspects� property was stolen. It has already led to the abandonment of a drugs trial and the suspension from duty of several officers.
However, senior policing officials are most alarmed by the claim that officers in Enfield, North London, used the controversial CIA interrogation technique, in which water is poured on to a cloth covering the suspect�s face, causing them to feel they are on the point of suffocation. |
The incident in question was apparently related to a pot bust. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| It amazes me what people can and can't do in the new nanny-police states of the west. A teacher gets fired for making a kid do pushups. Six police officers torture narcotics suspects and don't even get arrested. I dare say some western countries are reaching the point of making Korea like quite logical and sane in comparision. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Can you blame them? I mean, why should CIA have all the fun?
After all, it's Marijuana, Assassin of Youth  |
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mises
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| It amazes me what people can and can't do in the new nanny-police states of the west. |
We suck:
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#Memphis cop takes aim at two loose pit bulls with a shot gun, wounds bystander instead.
# Ohio family returns home to find cops tased, then shot and killed their five pound Chihuahua mix after it escaped from the back yard.
# Florida sheriff�s office pays $5,000 after deputy shoots family dog during warrant service.
# Juvenile chased by cops runs into friend�s house to escape. Cops enter home, shoot family�s pet Akita 13 times.
# Birmingham, Alabama pizza shop owner says police opened fire on her dogs unprovoked, killing two of them. Police spokesman says dogs didn�t respond to owner commands. �It appears it was within our firearms policy: they saw a threat to them and they neutralized the threat. They didn�t know if these dogs had a disease or whether they would sustain serious injury from a dog bite.�
# Here�s one in Lafayette, Louisiana where witness accounts differ sharply from what the police claim happened.
# Police in West Virginia shoot a dog properly on its leashed after it got into a fight with a police K9 dog that was untethered.
# Cop shoots dog at playground. In fairness to the cop, if you own a pit bull-ish breed, you should really keep it on a leash in public, especially at a playground. That said, cops need to be better trained in how to deal with dogs, so they can distinguish playfulness from aggression, and so they have options other than just pumping bullets into the animal. Which is pretty much true for most of these stories. There are safer ways of dealing with even legitimately dangerous dogs. |
http://www.theagitator.com/2009/06/09/and-one-more-2/
Links in the link. And they're all recent. |
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