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Met officers to be given 'stun guns'

mango | 01.08.2001 10:33

Time for us to consider grounded metal 'armour'? Or perhaps personal Faraday cages?

Met officers to be given 'stun guns'

By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent

01 August 2001

Britain's biggest police force is to issue its officers with US-style "stun guns" capable of paralysing offenders with a 50,000-volt electric shock from up to 15ft away.

The hand-held weapons are to be introduced in the
Metropolitan Police as a non-lethal alternative to firearms
because of a rise in the number of incidents in which officers have been confronted by people wielding swords and knives.

The full article is at:-

mango
- Homepage: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=86418

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UK RULES OK

01.08.2001 22:32

Amnesty International has campaigned against the use of stun guns in US jails, they say it "blurs the line between torture and legitimate prisoner control techniques." So in effect, police have been given a license to torture "care in the community" patients and paralise protestors!!

Mobster

Eye Predict

01.08.2001 23:37

I reckon the ‘hate-mongering’ politicians are planning a riot. The orchestrated tactics are all in place. The BNP announces a week in advance, they plan a rally in Birmingham, home of the Handsworth Revolution. Plenty of long established mixed-race communities to provoke there!

Jack Straw bans it!
The fuse is lit…

It’s now up to the NF to decide whether to ignore the ban, and go ahead. This will demand a counter-demonstration from the Anti-Nazi League....A heavy (riot) police presence, armed with their new ‘non-lethal’ laser-stun-guns and water-cannon on stand-by (new powers) and BOSCH....you’ve got mayhem on the streets.

They pick an area populated by blacks to implement the dastardly plan, so that when the shit hits the fan, they can blame it all on “immigrants” and arrest as many Asians as possible. ‘Named & Shamed,’ from CCTV, of course.

Mystic Meg