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From: jdgraeme74@yahoo.com

"In almost every country of the world, the state power--the
government--is the greatest source of organized violence. States have
armies, whose main purpose is to use violence against other state
armies. States also have police forces, whose purpose is to use
violence to control the domestic population.

The U.S. war on Iraq is only one case in point. After killing 3,000
Iraqi children a month for over 10 years starting in the 1990s through
a regime of crippling sanctions, the U.S. has now also caused over 1
million "excess deaths" in Iraq since it invaded and occupied the
country in 2003.

And what of the role of the U.S. government at home? Here, the
military was founded as a force for the genocidal extermination of the
Native Americans, and the police were first organized as slave-
catchers. Today, the U.S. government holds, by force of arms, 2.2
million of its own citizens (most of them convicted of non-violent
offenses) behind bars"
--Brian Jones

Veterans of the Bridgeport Police Department – Elson Morales, Joseph
Lawlor and Clive Higgins were caught on tape kicking and stomping on a
man previously incapacitated with a stun gun.
A shaky video that goes in and out of focus captures the moment the
suspect is shot with the stun gun and knocked to the ground paralyzed.
One of the officers exclaims “Nice shot!” and walks over to the fallen
man, kicking him as the other cop is standing by.  He quickly joins in
and they go on kicking and stomping on the helpless suspect. Sirens
can be heard in the background as another patrol car is arriving to
the scene, and the third officer uses the chance to join his coworkers
and land a couple of kicks himself just before the backup arrives.
There were a couple of witnesses observing the brutal beating, but
that didn’t keep the cops from acting the way they did

Stomp a Man & Get Paid Vaction, if employeed at Bridgeport Police
Department
“Elson Morales, Joseph Lawlor and Clive Higgins, all 10-year veterans
of the Bridgeport Police Department, are shown on the tape kicking and
stomping on a man they had already subdued with a stun gun.”  I’m not
too surprised to learn of the actions of Morales, Lawlor and Higgins,
considering the hostility displayed by every single one of their
colleagues I met when in Bridgeport on Sat., 19th, including David
Uliano. In fact, it’s likely that a heavy-handed culture permeates the
ranks of Bridgeport police – something that can never entirely be
mitigated when the very institution is based on coercion.

Fortunately an individual nearby recognized what was happened and
documented the aggression through the lens of a camera. It’s great
this practice is becoming so pervasive. It is making a positive
difference (for more related, check out CopBlock.org/KnowYourRights).

While the video evidence may be enough for anyone with common sense to
draw pretty accurate conclusions, the so-claimed “authorities” are
only now “investigating” themselves for an incident that happened in
May of 2011. Oh yeah, and the aggressors are on paid vacation.
http://www.copblock.org/27012/stomp-a-man-get-paid-vaction-if-em
loyeed-at-bridgeport-police-department/

"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach
is more so."
--Mahatma Gandhi
_Non-Violence in Peace and War_, vol. 2, ch. 150, 1949.

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