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Joey! Those peppers are hot! I still feel 'em in my chest, the heat is, like, rising up and going out my frickin' ears.
Meanwhile...
The LAPD Plans to Curb Flashlight Beatings
The proposed policy, to be considered Jan. 11, stops short of the near-total bans on practice enacted in other large cities. It states that flashlights should only be used for light and should only be used as a weapon in very unusual circumstances.
Ricardo Garcia, criminal justice director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, said the proposal was a good start.
"On the positive side, at least this will give officers some training on how if they're going to strike with a flashlight to do it," Garcia said. "Before this, they could pretty much do anything."
posted by littleboxes at 7:04 PM
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I'm actually quite frightened that other cities have "near-total bans" on flashlight beatings. This means that there was a point in time when flashlight beatings were acceptable. A "ban" is probably not going to be enough to change how officers feel about flashlight beatings not change their behavior.
I thought that police officers carried other tools with which to beat people, like sticks. Why do they need to also use flashlights?
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