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Latino Grandfather, Pregnant Woman Tasered at Baptism — But Don’t Call the Cops Racist [VIDEO]

A Latino family in Manassas, Virginia, is celebrating the baptism of their two young boys, at a party held in their grandfather’s backyard. The police arrive in response to a noise complaint, and ask to see the grandfather’s ID. The family’s account says that he provided it, but the police report say that he refused; both accounts agree that the grandfather was then Tasered three times in rapid succession, on his own property, and then charged with ‘public intoxication.’ The pregnant mother of the two boys ran to help him as he lay on the ground — and was also Tasered, then charged with assaulting a police officer.

I’ll say it again — all parties agree that county police officers arrived at a children’s baptism party being held at a private residence, then Tasered a 55-year-old Bible study teacher three times and Tasered a pregnant woman once, in front of a yard full of kids, including her kids, and family members. Then they read rights. To the grandfather and the pregnant woman. For ‘public intoxication’ and ‘assaulting a police officer,’ respectively. As they lay temporarily paralyzed on the ground.

Can you imagine being one of those two boys, and watching as your own mother, pregnant with your sibling-to-be, is electrocuted by police officers and arrested, for rushing to the side of your grandfather as lay paralyzed on the ground? How would that make you feel about your relationship to the police, as a young Latino man about to grow up in the astonishingly xenophobic state of Virginia?MORE

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[virginia-fell.livejournal.com]

"How would that make you feel about your relationship to the police, as a young Latino man about to grow up in the astonishingly xenophobic state of Virginia?"

Forewarned. :(

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Indeed

[voz-latina.livejournal.com]

I keep reading this, and the words just stick in my throat, and won't come.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

There is not much you can say.

[isitis.livejournal.com]

i just want to cry & scream... i'm so sick of hearing stories about this... I tired of people trying to justified what the police does cause this right here is NOT PROTECTING & SERVING!

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Our enemies in blue They were not made to protect and serve us the lower classes.

[mothwentbad.livejournal.com]

:-/

I at least have some hope that they would've come up with a Plan B instead of shooting her if they hadn't had tasers, but I'm not so sure. Stupid people.

Will you post again if there's a follow-up?

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Yes I will if I see anything.

[miaryann.livejournal.com]

This is happening on a daily basis. So sick of cops.
I don't even have intelligent thoughts other than AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

I have run out of words, myself.

[the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

I stopped following JSmooth cause I am fed to hell up with people bringing up "Jay Smooth says call the ACTIONS racist, not the people. This is how you handle racism" Mofos. And I'm fed up with the fact he hasn't called anyone on it either.

But shite, man. WTF? Aren't police explicitly NOT supposed to taser pregnant women? WTF? People are anti-abortion, but if a tasering leads to a miscarriage what is it then? An oops?

PS

[the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

So the 1st Transfomers Movie apparently has a Decepticon disguised as a police car with the words: "to punish and enslave.".

Everytime I hear stuff like this, I think about that car. Except it's got actual human beings inside it.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Police can do whatever they want as agents of the state, apparently. What chaps my ass is that my tax dollars are paying their salaries. And you know that the anti-abortionist dont give a flying fuck about the children. Its all about policing sex had by women.

[the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

It is true that 'Right to Lifers' have come across to me as seeing children as punishment for sex. Which just - there's no way in my mind that should be labeled 'Right to Life'. There's no way that's seeing something as -precious-.

Man, they must be pig happy that all their abstinence crap in the last 8 years no doubt increased pregnancies among teens. Not to mention the spread of STDs.