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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT |
Happened in Copenhagen, too, during a December 2009 UN climate summit (not an
economic summit!).
"After about an hour, the police started to arrest us, one by one, and sat
us in lines on the cold ground. We had our hands cuffed on our backs and our
legs spread, sitting really tight. For four hours we could not lie down or sit
properly. No police answered our questions why we were arrested. We were not
allowed to move even slightly and not allowed to go to the toilet."
"I shouted for an hour that I needed to go to the toilet. Eventually I
stood up, although I'd seen others being beaten by the police for standing up.
They did not hit me, but forced me down on to the ground several times. It was
only when the media came and I shouted that they let me go to the toilet. Others
were not so lucky and wet themselves."
"Several got sick, got seizures or fainted. The worst was the humiliation
and not knowing why we were arrested and what would happen with us. We got moral
support from other demonstrators, standing behind the police lines, and from
people living in houses nearby."
"After four hours, they started to take us away in buses, still handcuffed,
for a couple of hours. Eventually, we were let go, just giving our ID facts. As
far as I know, none of the 400 arrested with me have been charged with
anything."
"The police aimed to block us from demonstrating. It's a violation of our
right to demonstrate as well as a physical and psychological violation."
http://www.socialistnigeria.org/print.php%3fprint=1553
(yes, biased...)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 02 2012 @ 09:51 PM EDT |
About Pepper Spray
Pepper spray is a tool, I don't like using it, because I have to get close and I
end up spraying myself also. Hardly what I'd call a good weapon.
We can't carry guns in prisons, because if we did, the inmates would take them
away from us and use the guns on us. Guns belong outside the prison in the
towers. But the state doesn't man most towers, due to budget constraints.
Is pepper spray inhumane or cruel and unusual punishment? It is generally used
in prisons to help stop violence, but all by itself it couldn't stop violence,
some things you have to be finished by hand or hopefully by strong verbal
orders.
Take away all our simple weapons. Do you think it is fun to be the person who
has to run into fights, rather than run from them?
No one likely gets killed or hurt badly by pepper spray. Now if using these
using these kind of defensive weapons is an uber evil a crime against humanity,
I say, "What do the cops care?"
Without weapons, when violence breaks, we can do the smart thing and run from
the housing units and yards, and very importantly, lock the doors behind you.
It would be so much easier for the cops to have coffee and donuts while the
inmates are shanking each other and kicking each other to death.
Then, after the offenders have blown of their stream, we go back to the scene,
pick up the dead and bury them in a prison graveyard.
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