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Tazered by police - died later at home.

Grieving squater | 05.05.2012 09:46

As a follow up to the vicious eviction of squatters from a long established London squat where tazers were used on some present there has been a subsequent death.

Original story here -
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/05/495746.html

During the police attack one of the tazer barbs became entangled in the fur of Bobby's animal companion "Bo'. He received multiple shocks and died early this morning we believe as a result of the tazer attack.

All our thoughts are with Bobby as he comes to terms with the death of his friend of five years. Bo was a lively friendly dog always pleased to see new people and had been vegan from an early part of his life so he was less aggressive than most dogs. He was known for sleeping at lunchtime and then always wanting an immediate walk as soon as he woke up. He will be missed and a ceremony of rememberence will be held in due course.




The police now have a death on their hands as a result of this raid

Grieving squater

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At least it was only a dog

05.05.2012 10:36

Lucky it was only a dog that died, it will not be long before a person is killed with the ever increasing use of Tazzers by the cops.

Gail

Dog

05.05.2012 10:41

Sorry to hear that a dog died but I think the headline is a little misleading. Although the death of a dog is probably a little upsetting to its owner the post infers that a person died which would of course be a very serious matter. I suggest the mods re-write the headline to reflect that this was only a dog and not a person.

Solidarity to those evicted (illegally)

Man

Police killers take a life again!

05.05.2012 10:56

Is not all life sacred? Oh, it`s just a dog, this time. Or, oh, it`s just an old person next time who was going to die soon anyway and lets face it, was taking money from the public purse by breathing and not putting anything back!
Or, oh, it was just an unemployed persons dog who was squatting, so it deserved to die.
We have all been sleepwalking and have woken up in this Kafkaesque totalitarian nightmare.
This is just the start. Wait until june, there will be hundreds of miscarriages of justice with innocent people who oppose the status quo being murdered on our streets. More secret inquests. Yada, yada, yada......

Sparticus