New York Post | Cop beats man on the legs with baton for no apparent reason beyond the sheer sadistic pleasure of it.

Globe and Mail | Seventeen-year-old Michael Langan died Tuesday after being hit with a police electronic stun gun, the 22nd person in Canada to die after being tasered.

CNN | The officer, since fired, could end up facing criminal charges in Pikes’ January death after medical examiners ruled it a homicide.

Chicago Tribune | Man handcuffed by local police and shocked nine times with a Taser, reportedly pleads for mercy.

Rocky Mountain News | Dozens of protest groups are planning actions at the DNC– including groups like We Are Change Colorado, committed to peace and ‘the ideals of Ghandi.”

YouTube | California cops don’t like to be confronted on the 4th Amendment to the Constitution as they shake down citizens.

MSNBC | “The drug has an amnesia effect… one of the nice ways to take care of the discomfort is to make people forget that they’ve had it,” said biomedical ethics and law enforcement expert Dr. Steven Miles.

NBC | The woman claims she was cooperating with TSA agents when an airport police officer approached her from behind. Seconds later, Kassner said she was on the ground.

CanWest | Nova Scotia has placed an immediate interim restriction on the use of Tasers to “situations of violent or aggressive resistance or active threat” to a police officer or another person.

Daily Mail | Guns pointing at his head, a train passenger is forced to lie face-down on the platform in a dramatic police swoop.

Jackson Hole Star-Tribune | U.S. Forest Service cops use tasers, pepper spray, and rubber bullets on hippies for the crime of “fellowship, partying including illicit drug use, praying, and living on the land.”

Hickory Record | On this Fourth of July holiday, the Highway Patrol will be out in force to keep North Carolina’s roads safe.

P.O.T.U.S. | Police are now planning to pull you over, and if they suspect you’ve been drinking, the police will stick a needle in your arm, and take your blood without a warrant. You cannot refuse, and they will do this by force.

Local 6 | Central Florida neighborhoods are arming themselves and talking about adding electric barbwire after crime has swept the area; residents blame police inaction.

LewRockwell.com | After many months of peaceful coexistence, Atlanta police decided to pursue and ticket the monthly Critical Mass bike ride.

B Town Blog | Cops-in-training, at least in Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission facility, are apparently required to get pepper sprayed during training.

AP | A police officer who body-slammed an unarmed woman and broke her jaw during a medical call to a suburban restaurant last year was arrested Friday and charged with civil rights violations.

U.S. News & World Report | The comments made in the You Tube video are very similar to the death threats made by Michael Reagan to Mark Dice. This individual was arrested while Reagan was not even suspended from his radio show.

Steve Watson | Anti-war MP George Galloway has accused London Metropolitan Police of engaging in “a deliberate conspiracy to bring about scenes of violent disorder” during President George W. Bush’s visit to the UK last week.

USA Today | Federal agents raided a Blackwater armory Tuesday and seized 34 automatic rifles that the company purchased and stored on behalf of a local law enforcement agency.

Infowars | Corporate media reports the cop is under “suspicion” of “roughing up” the kid, never mind a video evidence plainly showing the cop assaulting the teenager.

CBC | Detailed examination revealed that many more people are injured, yet never see a doctor.

Censored News | Cops attack, harass Native Americans walking to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original Longest Walk that sparked passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.

NY Sun | A new proposal to increase the number of stun guns in police hands is hitting a series of public relations hurdles, with a Brooklyn man dying this week after being shocked by a Taser and Amnesty International warning the police department to reconsider.

Fox News | Christopher Cocker, 36, collapsed on the floor after laughing at a joke on TV, but his neighbor who heard the thud thought something bad had happened and called the police.

New York Daily News | Terrorizing minors is all in a day’s work for three Westchester County cops.

KNBC | Family members said Su’e was terminally ill with lung cancer and had schizophrenia, but was nonviolent and like a child.

Williamsburg News | Man suffering from Asperger’s syndrome made the mistake of becoming argumentative during a dispute over a returned item at a shopping mall.

Canadian Press | Opposition MPs and human rights groups have criticized the RCMP for suppressing details of Taser cases, including injuries suffered by people stunned.

Associated Press | Andrew Glover accused the officers of inflicting severe injuries as he was recovering from intestinal surgery in February.

CBC News | Elderly heart patient with pneumonia zapped in hospital by impatient cops.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | In Atlanta, a cop lies about narcotics to a magistrate to get a no-knock warrant and a 92 year old woman ends up dead.

KSDK | Tasers “one of the most effective and useful tools that a law enforcement officer working the streets has at his or her disposal,” according to St. Charles County Sheriff Tom Neer.

WFAA-TV | Man arrested, booked, strip searched, and sat for 3 hours with criminals for the crime of failing to use a turn signal.

Kurt Nimmo | Man gets 50,000 volts of “pain compliance” for refusing to stand when ordered to do so.

Kurt Nimmo | Another case of police violence excused by the corporate media.

Vehmgericht | The evidence is overwhelming: Roland Carnaby was with the CIA.

Infowars | Otis Grigsby’s version of events differ from that put out by the media and Illinois State Police.

KARE 11 | Subcontractor snoop unable to tell the difference between a meth lab and a fish tank.

Associated Press | Hitler’s Gestapo wore black uniforms for the same reason.

The Gauntlet | It is clear that the War on Terror has now become the excuse for a direct war on you.

Paul Joseph Watson | Incorrect body language, talking to an officer now results in “pain compliance.”

Jones Report | A ‘modern day’ Storm Trooper is prominently advertised inside U.S. Calvary, a military & police supply catalogue– complete with black ski mask and full-body protection.

John W. Whitehead | Clearly, the use of tasers should be suspended immediately — or at least until a comprehensive medical study can be conducted proving they are safe to the general public when used by police officers.

YouTube | A compilation of taser incidents… not even Fido is spared electrocution.

USA Today | People calling 911 to report a traffic accident, a burglarized home or a stolen car may be greeted by a civilian in a polo shirt instead of a gun-toting officer.

BlipTV | Joe Anybody likes to video cops on the street, just to keep them straight. But the Portland cops don’t take kindly to this, so they grab Joe’s camera without explanation.

The Sun | “It’s designed to lessen injuries to both officers and the person being arrested,” says the police, never mind the dozens of deaths attributed to this “non-lethal” weapon.

Local 6 News | Deputy Donna Hudepohl could not handle the rowdy child, so she tasered her.

The Star | Last year, Tasers were fully deployed – meaning police fired darts – 46 per cent of the time, compared to 37 per cent of the time in 2006.