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Old 09-27-2013, 08:34 AM
 
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Texas Police Repeatedly Shot and Tasered a 67-Year-Old Alzheimer's Patient - In Her Own Home | Alternet

This kind of story is becoming all too common. It makes you wonder how the heck these cops are trained. This poor guy calls an Alzheimer's support group for advice then they in turn call the cops without telling him and the cops make a complete mess of things.

Whenever a story like this pops up on CD, there always seems to be somebody who takes the side of the police. Might be pretty tough in this case.

It's time to ask - who polices the police? FBI keeps shooting stats on almost every demographic, why not the cops?
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Old 09-27-2013, 08:39 AM
 
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Old 09-29-2013, 03:08 PM
 
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Another example of why NOT to call the police....Texas Police Repeatedly Shot and Tasered a 67-Year-Old Alzheimer's Patient - In Her Own Home | Alternet
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Old 09-29-2013, 03:51 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Hopefully the Seyfrieds will receive a big enough award to ensure that Mrs. Seyfried gets superb care for the rest of her life.

I tend to think our country is too litigious, but this is too horrible for words.
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Old 09-29-2013, 09:11 PM
 
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How much more of this cowardly police brutality will we as a people continue to tolerate? My god, cops in this country are the most cowardly and violent criminals in society.
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Old 09-30-2013, 05:40 AM
 
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Hopefully the Seyfrieds will receive a big enough award to ensure that Mrs. Seyfried gets superb care for the rest of her life.

I tend to think our country is too litigious, but this is too horrible for words.
Paid for by taxpayers. Cops need to lose their personal assets when sued for police brutality. It'd curb it quickly.
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Old 09-30-2013, 06:23 AM
 
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We're hearing too many cases of police "overreaction", which do raise valid questions about their training. Sometimes it seems they are just too eager to be 'macho'. When I worked at a PD, I saw many different personalities -- some who didn't seem well suited to the job -- so I'm not surprised at these kinds of reports.
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Old 09-30-2013, 06:43 AM
 
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Texas Police Repeatedly Shot and Tasered a 67-Year-Old Alzheimer's Patient - In Her Own Home | Alternet

This kind of story is becoming all too common. It makes you wonder how the heck these cops are trained. This poor guy calls an Alzheimer's support group for advice then they in turn call the cops without telling him and the cops make a complete mess of things.

Whenever a story like this pops up on CD, there always seems to be somebody who takes the side of the police. Might be pretty tough in this case.

It's time to ask - who polices the police? FBI keeps shooting stats on almost every demographic, why not the cops?
It appears people like this are doing the training. Should see some of the training videos.
PressTV - US police forces being Israelized: Gordon Duff

With over 17000+ agencies one would think there would be public tracking and accountability for this. Instead this acquired project is all I could find.
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 09-26-13

Truly sick behavior and totally unacceptable.

My guess is they do not track due to corporate liability.
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Old 09-30-2013, 06:46 AM
 
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"I wonder what she did to make them do that?"- a police state apologist
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Old 09-30-2013, 06:47 AM
 
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Paid for by taxpayers. Cops need to lose their personal assets when sued for police brutality. It'd curb it quickly.
Hell has frozen over. We agree on something!
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