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Black Couple Tasered For No Apparent Reason…
December 28th, 2007
…and hit with the usual trumped up charges of resisting arrest and obstruction that police use when they abuse someone and have no actual crimes to charge the person with; but must charge them with something to cover up their abusive actions.
Basically it goes like this – police get an anonymous call that someone in the mall is seen with a silver gun. They go to the food court and they decide that Major Lemon, who’s with his wife in sister standing in line, “fits the description”.
Lemon apparently didn’t do the proper bowing and shuffling for the boys in blue, and out come the Tasers again; never mind he had no weapon and no one specifically identified him as having done anything wrong.
“After holding onto him, I was Tased and they put us on the floor,” Marrisa Lemon told WTMJ-TV.
Major and Marrisa were then handcuffed. He was taken to the hospital for a heart condition (which is why people should be so easily tased) and Marrisa was released without charged. Major got hit with the usual resisting and disorderly conduct after police beat somebody up who didn’t actually commit any crime.
From what I can gather, the police think because they didn’t get the information they wanted and weren’t bowed to with the proper humility, they are justified in using force that has even killed people.
Again, not to prevent violent action, but just because they didn’t get the answers they wanted fast enough - because somebody didn’t shuffle and bow to them as if they are our gods.
As the comments quoted on this blog say:
1. We do not have to do everything that some dumb cop tells us to do. Throw in the dumb West Towne “cop” and you have a whole bunch of idiot cops infringing on our rights. This case was yet another case of some overzealous cops with low IQs reaching for their Taser before reaching for their thinking cap.
2. My understanding is that Tasers are supposed to be used as an alternative to deadly force. If the police did not have Tasers, would they have been justified in discharging their firearm in this situation?
The police are not our task masters. They’ve come to the opinion that they are, but they’re not. They exist to serve us, not us to serve them. We are supposed to have rights, and the police are not endowed with unilateral authority to trample over those rights and just do whatever they want to.
They really don’t have the right to accoust you without cause, and then brutalize you at their whim.
I think we’re seeing continued proof that the cops are out of control; especially when it comes to Black people who they don’t empathize with as humans. This includes a great many Black cops who become assimulated into the embedded, racist police culture which has always devauled people of color humanity and routinely violated their dignity.
You can watch a video report here.
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