YouTube | Surveillance video released in an assault case against a sheriff’s deputy shows him kicking a young girl, slamming her to the jail cell floor and striking her repeatedly.

Salinas Californian | Salinas officer says he thought he had been shot, opens fire on unarmed couple in SUV.

Fox News | Driver with three kids in car was obeying police when they forced him off the road.

CNN | A former police officer for the Bay Area transit system pleaded not guilty Thursday in the New Year’s Day shooting of a passenger at an Oakland rail station.

Associated Content | Over a week after Adolph Grimes was killed, an official representative from the New Orleans Police Department had yet to visit and explain the incident to the family.

WSLS 10 | Police say they were called there for a disorderly conduct after callers say someone was “using the bathroom” in the road.

Infowars | “Oscar yelled, ‘You shot me! I got a four-year-old daughter,”‘ said Fernando Anicete.

New Scientist | The research arm of the US Department of Justice is working on two portable non-lethal weapons that inflict pain from a distance, with the intention of putting them into the hands of police to subdue suspects.

Times Online | The government has proposed wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable force” against householders who try to protect their valuables.

Channel News Asia | A 26-year-old man died on Friday after police used a Taser stun gun to bring him under control, a local sheriff’s office in California said.

Raw Story | Tasers have killed more than 400 people since 2001, according to a new study commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

AP | A St. Louis city leader frustrated with the police response to rising crime called Tuesday on residents to arm themselves to protect their lives and property.

| Hiebing, a long time season ticket holder who had not been drinking, was ejected from Camp Randall stadium during the Oct. 11 game against Penn State after she was discovered sitting in a stadium aisle, with her seat occupied by someone else.

Australian | The NSW Ombudsman has recommended a two-year freeze on further roll-outs of Taser guns, saying police standards for their use are inadequate, and the health risks are unknown.

WRAL | Surveillance of anti-death penalty protesters and other activists by the Maryland State Police was broader and went on longer than previously disclosed.

WITN | An autopsy says a man who died this summer was tased four times by Bertie County deputies. The report lists Clarence Smith’s death as natural.

Canadian Press | It’s the second time in less than a week a person has died after Alberta police used a stun gun during an arrest.

L.A. Times | The officer had been chasing four burglary suspects when he encountered and shot the victim, who was holding something in his hand to defend himself from possible intruders.

WCBSTV | When CBS 2 HD’s reporter on the scene, Christine Sloan, protested and said he couldn’t arrest the cameraman, the officer said, “I can do whatever I want.”

We Are Change | MTA police detain activist for refusing to show ID at anti-bailout demonstration.

First Coast News | An Orlando police officer Tasered an autistic middle school student after the teen refused to leave a bathroom and broke the officer’s hand.

You Tube | Police disrupt freedom of expression in Liverpool city centre, physically stealing flyers and a table with literature.

Wayne Madsen | WMR has learned from knowledgeable FEMA sources that the Bush administration is putting the final touches on a plan that would see martial law declared in the United States under various anticipated scenarios.

Orange County Register | Residents are receiving form letters that read, “The Department has determined that your identified risk does not meet the good cause threshold as required under the new CCW policy… present intention is to revoke your CCW license.”

Corbett Report | Now, with public outcry over the banker bailout bill at fever pitch, all of the pieces are in place for the U.S. Army to start policing American citizens.

Steve Watson | Stun gun manufacturer rolls out devices that promise to “drop everyone in a given area to the ground”.

Grits for Breakfast | Jeffrey Van Slyke, the former UT Police Department chief who authorized undercover snooping on UT-Austin student groups, finds himself facing hard questions from a student newspaper in Washington D.C.

AP | Lt. Michael Pigott was remorseful and distraught. He apologized and sought the family’s forgiveness. Then he went to his unit’s headquarters Thursday morning and fatally shot himself.

Globe and Mail | A man has died after Mounties in the Vancouver suburb of Langley used a taser to subdue him after he jumped out of the window of a house.

Vancouver Sun | Vancouver police are defending a decision by officers to Taser a 16-year-old mother who wouldn’t hand her baby over to social workers last Monday.

Raw Story | The wife of 59-year-old Ernest Griglen, in a coma since June, has filed a federal lawsuit against two Michigan police departments, alleging that officers beat Griglen into a coma.

AP | A taser was used on a Florida man walking his dog in the nude, who, Tallahassee Police claim, couldn’t be subdued any other way after he allegedly refused the officer’s commands.

London Telegraph | Hurricane Ike’s battering of Houston has led to a week-long curfew being imposed by the authorities to deter looters and help prevent accidents.

ThePeoplesVoice.org | This little nightmare called FEMA was brought to us by Nixon. GWH Bush saw to it that this weapon against the people was armed and ready – the only thing not in place was a sufficient excuse to implement it.

Chicago Sun Times | Teens in 10 high schools can send messages to alert police about possible violence — and maybe earn rewards

Washington Post | Trigger happy SWAT thugs “did what they were supposed to do,” says the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland.

Reuters | Now it isn’t tasers or police abuse that cause deaths in arrested people, its the a new ’syndrome’ of sudden death in police custody!

| Apparently, cops found the flower to be a weapon of mass destruction.

Democracy Now! | During the demonstration in which Goodman was arrested law enforcement officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets, concussion grenades and excessive force.

Steve Watson | Leaked instructions to Denver police outline indicators of potential violent protesters

Raw Story | “Police say they had a hard time getting the 14-year-old student under control Friday, especially because of his size – he’s almost 6 feet tall and weighs 230 pounds.”

Raw Story | Under the proposed FISA changes, law enforcement would be allowed to target groups and individuals on the basis of suspicion of participation in terrorist acts or providing support.

Buffalo News | Police acknowledge officers entered wrong apartment, defend beating epileptic man, pointing guns at children.

Jonathan Elinoff | We Are Change members attempted to go into the camp to get exclusive footage and talk to the guards but were strictly warned to stay away.

Infowars | On the video, which was shot outside Coors Field on the home opener of the Colorado Rockies game on April 4, undercover Denver Police detectives hit, kick and choke John Heaney.

AP | Police in Providence, R.I., say an unmarked car that officers had been driving for several years came with a surprise – a half-pound of cocaine hidden behind the radio.

McLatchy Newspapers | Automated speed cameras in Chevy Chase Village where the speed limit is 30 mph, caught 3,500 speeders on their first day. Before that, the norm was six tickets a day.

Rocky Mountain News | Man complied with all police orders and said the officers started beating him after they had handcuffed him.

Andrew McLemore | The video shows undercover Deputy Brian Tollison pulling over a truck driven by a drug suspect and beating the teenage driver while what appears to be a back-up deputy held down him down.

Raw Story | Although the cause of death has not yet been determined, witnesses insist the man was kicked and beaten by police officers after he was forced to the ground and handcuffed.