Day: June 4, 2005
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I'm telling you, tasers don't hurt, now stop screaming
Check out this video of a cop tasering a woman via Stone Bridge. Stone Bridge notes that the cop remarks, likely for benefit of the camera (a) that it didn’t hurt, and (b) that she took a swing at the second officer and thus the taser. She didn’t take a swing. Stone Bridge didn’t observe…
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"No can do, can’t give photos of abuse," says Bush Co., "the evidence would violate the Geneva Convention!"
The ACLU has prevailed and a judge has ordered the government to release more Abu Ghraib photos and videos showing abuse of prisoners. But get a load of the brilliant argument Bush Co. used against releasing them. Government lawyer Sean Lane had argued that releasing pictures, even in redacted form, would violate Geneva Convention rules…