The Last Moments of Victor Steen’s Life

 

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. The Declaration has been translated into at least 375 languages and dialects, making it the most widely translated document in the world.^[1] The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are entitled. It consists of 30 articles which have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions and laws. The International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols. In 1966 the General Assembly adopted the two detailed Covenants, which complete the International Bill of Human Rights. 

It appears to me that at least 5 national and international human rights were violated. Did this young man even commit a crime? This is murder…the cop couldn’ t stop his car?

Article 3 

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 5 

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 7 

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 9 

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 11

1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

National Taser-Torture Memorial

National Taser Memorial

  

Did you know that almost 500 people have been tasered-to-death in North America? At least 90 of these taser-related killings in America occurred since January 2010. [Get More Info. Here]

CHP Police Officer Tasers FETUS!

At the end of 7 months:

• Baby is 14 to 16 inches long.
• Weight is about 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 pounds.
• Taste buds have developed.
• Fat layers are forming.
• Organs are maturing.
• Skin is still wrinkled and red.
• If born at this time, the baby will be considered premature and require special care.

I am including this photo from [SutterHealth] so that you can understand what a seven-month fetus looks like, and what the mother’s abdomen looks like as well. I am also including the video from this incident. The main thing that stays in the fore-front of my mind is that the police officer tasered the woman’s stomach. [ VIDEO ]

The video says all that needs to be said…

 

 http://babies.sutterhealth.org/babygrowth/fetaldev/bg_fetaldev-7.html 

Two Georgia Cops Fired for the Taser Abuse of Janice Wells, Who Lived to See Another Day.

 

Two Atlanta, GA police officers have lost their jobs after repeatedly tasering Janice Wells, who called the police to her residence because she thought a burglar was outside her home. The first officer pepper sprayed the 57-year-old, female homeowner, and school teacher.  According to the video, the last police officer to arrive, got out of his vehicle and began to tase the woman. He just came on the scene and seemed to be agitated already. I will continue to say, this is a tragedy, thank God that this human being was not murdered as so many others have been. God help Us. Janice Wells told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an interview, “All of it’s just unreal to me. I was scared to death. He kept tasing me and tasing me. My fingernails are still burned. My leg, back and my butt had a long scar on it for days.”

U.N. Compares Taser To Torture (Nov. 26, 2007). I Challenge You to Look…

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3539226n&tag=api  (CBS/AP)  A United Nations committee said Friday that use of Taser weapons can be a form of torture, in violation of the U.N. Convention Against Torture. Use of the electronic stun devices by police has been marked with a sudden rise in deaths – including four men in the United States and two in Canada within the last week. Canadian authorities are taking a second look at them, and in the United States, there is a wave of demands to BAN them. The U.N. Committee Against Torture referred Friday to the use of TaserX26 weapons which Portuguese police has acquired. An expert had testified to the committee that use of the weapons had “proven risks of harm or death.” READ MORE                                                            

                                                  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=701569n&tag=api                                    

Frederick Williams pleaded for his life, saying “don’t kill me please”, and on another tape you could hear him say he had a family to take care of. He was already subdued when he was tasered, he was handcuffed.  Police were called because of some kind of health related fit or seizure that Frederick had. The powers that be are trying to attribute his death to “Excited Delirium.” He had no criminal history, no drug use issues, but he had a wife and children.

(Wikipedia) Excited delirium is a controversial term used to explain deaths of people in police custody, where the person being arrested or restrained shows some combination of agitation, violent or bizarre behavior, insensitivity to pain, higher body temperature, or increased strength.^[1] It has been listed as a cause of death by some medical examiners.^[2][3] NPR and ABC have reported that excited delirium only appears as a cause of death where police are involved in restraining agitated individuals.^[4][5] The term has no formal medical recognition and is not recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. There may also be a controversial link between “excited delirium” deaths and Tasers to subdue agitated people.^[6]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZOt4xYvLSk  This video is of a polish man who came to America to start a new life with his mother. He spoke no english, had been waiting for his mother approx. 10 hours, and was agitated, but not violent. His mother had been at the airport, but was told that her son had not arrived. Now her son is dead, he was tasered to death. Is this a case of “Excited Delirium?”

 

Terrelle Houston

Terrelle Houston was electrocuted 4 times while laying in a puddle of water.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/video?id=7488344

 

 

This is a National Tragedy. All races of people and a disproportionate amount of black people are being murder without due process of law. Healthy people, people who had mental issues and pre-existing heath conditions like epileptic seizures, people who forgot to take their meds that day, a person who had waited for his mom at the airport for ten hours, and he spoke no english, but was frustrated. A young man trying to see his wife, a man trying to proposition a girl, a man hiding from the police…all dead. These mentioned here are just a few in an extremely,  long list of victims.

MORE LIVES LOST…STOP TASER GUN USE

 This Video is Very Graphic. This is another story about a life, death, and Taser Guns. The name this time is Steven Hill, aka Steve Driver, porn star. Steven is accused of fatally “hacking” Herbert Wong to death. I understand all the extenuating circumstances of the scene in this video. However, there are two things that have me shaking my head. (1) Why point a gun at someone on a cliff, and shoot, especially since you think he is about to jump? (2) My second concern is the comments that people made under this video on YouTube. Lawlessness is scary.  And so my prayers go out to the family of Herbert Wong,  a life cut short, and the family of Steve Hill.

This Video is Very Graphic. This is another story about a life, death, and Taser Guns. It appears to me that when this young man got the cops off of him, and sat up, he was already in choke mode, so why taser him? There were three cops and the young man was unarmed. If the taser gun was taken out of both of these scenerios, would it have made a difference. It also looks like the police officer is not doing the Heimlich Maneuver correctly. Three lives lost…

Fort Worth Makes Record Breaking $2,000,000 Settlement Offer In The Taser Death of Michael Jacobs

Michael Jacobs (24) was a human being with mental health issues, schizophrenia, and on April 19, 2009, he had not taken his medication. Michael’s family called the police to HELP THEM get Michael under control. Instead, these parents witnessed the death of their son on their front lawn. Here is what happened…the family called for help, a FIRE crew, EMS unit, and POLICE showed up on the premises, the cops sent the FIRE and EMS unit away.  It was at that point that officer Stephanie A. Phillips felt that Michael was threatening to run away. That is when she tasered Michael with 50,000 volts of electricity; the first time was for 49 seconds and the second time for 5 seconds, with a 1-second interval between the shocks.

 The officer reported that when Jacobs “continued to struggle,” Phillips warned him again that if he did not “cease fighting and comply with officers’ requests, she would shock him again. When [Jacobs] failed to cooperate, Phillips shocked him a second time,” according to the report. That stun gun’s electric shock ran through Michael Jacobs’ body for 54 seconds.  After he fell to the ground, and had stopped breathing, the cops handcuffed him and called the ambulance to return. The three cops did nothing except call the ambulance to return.  They did not even try to resuscitate this young black man, they only chose to handcuff  a dead man.

Fifteen minutes later, the EMS techs arrived to find the young man dead.  Handcuffed, lifeless, laying on the ground. Two investigations were begun, but with no results…four months passed and nothing. 

This victim had no weapon and the only threat was that he might run. Charlotte Jacobs, Michael’s mother, told relatives that her son was writhing on the ground and foaming at the mouth while he was being stunned, and she begged for the officers to stop.  Michael Patrick Jacobs died on this day, and the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office ruled the death a homicide and Jacob’s family sued, alleging his civil rights had been violated.

A little over a year later, May 18, 2009, the Forth Worth City Council has unanimously approved a settlement, the biggest settlement ever from the City of Fort Worth, 2 Mil. This settlement was the result of a civil rights/wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael’s parents. The Fort Worth Police Dept. cleared the police officers after their internal investigation, and the Tarrant County Grand Jury did not issue an indictment against the officers.   THIS IS PRESENT-DAY LYNCHING.

Resources: ElectronicVillage.blogspot.com;  DallasJustice.com (Michael Lowe)

http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/04/fort-worth-police-taser-michael-jacobs.html

http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/fort-worth-makes-record-breaking-2000000-settlement-offer-in-cop-taser-killing-of-michael-jacobs

STOP TASER TORTURE, NOW!!!!!!

                                                                                                                                      

December 30, 2009:  Here we go again, according to Dayton Daily News, Douglas Boucher, 39, died from a skull fracture he received when he fell after being shot with a Taser Gun. It was reported that no drugs or alcohol were found in Boucher’s body. Officers Daniel Fry and Sean McCormick stopped at a store for a drink, when the female clerk asked them to talk to Boucher because she claimed he had propositioned and harassed her.  Apparently, he did the same thing the night before, so the two officers approached Boucher and asked him to go outside. The officers were attempting to handcuff Boucher when he wrestled away and hit Fry in the head with his one handcuffed hand. When he tried to go after the clerk again, because she had come outside, McCormick attempted to use a Taser on him. The first shot failed, but the second one employed the shock. This is my point, this man should not have died. His life should not have ended because he hit on a woman, or because he resisted arrest. Taser guns are LETHAL and should not be used any longer. Read the Full Story  Please go to www.petition2congress.com do a search for Taser Torture, and sign the petition for congressional hearings…thanks.

STOP TASER MURDERS NOW!!!

This  episode of a Taser related death occured in Springfield, MO. City police are now investigating the death of this man, Michael Hawkins, 39, who had been arrested for burglary, Sunday morning December 20, 2009. According to a person claiming to be the brother of the victim, Mike was staying in the hotel with his girlfriend. He and his girlfriend had a rocky relationship, and on this day they probably got into one of their arguments, said the relative. Mike according to the report, went into a utility closet and locked the door and would not come out. Police were called, and rightly so. When the police tried to get Mike to come out of the storage closet he went up into a crawl space. Police tried to talk Hawkins down but he refused to leave the crawl space. Police entered the crawl space, along with a police service dog. The dog engaged the suspect in the crawl space. While doing so, dog broke through the ceiling and fell on a balcony. But Mike was able to hold on to a rafter and climb back into the crawl space. After he refused to obey several police commands to surrender, an officer used an electric stun gun on him. Someone who claimed to be the Mike’s brother said that Mike didn’t steal anything, he was not a burglar, but was staying at the hotel. Once in custody, an ambulance took Mike to a hospital to be treated for a dog bite on his upper thigh. Mike died at the hospital. An autopsy is pending to decide the cause of death. 

There was a young man, who lived behind my house in the home of his father. I didn’t know the young man personally, but I knew that he would cut the grass from time to time for my father, so I hired him for the same purposes. One day, after cutting the grass he asked if I wanted him to trim the hedges. I specifically said no because the sun was going down. I asked him to come back the next day and do the hedges. Well, unknown to me he was clipping the hedges around my house that night, and a neighbor saw him and called the police. A knock at my door, revealed about three police cars with flashing lights and a handful of police officers. They wanted to know if I knew the man they had in cuffs, the guy who had cut my grass. This person knew I told him not to cut the hedges that night. So did the young man have evil intent in his heart? Did he forget that I had said no? ? Of course I don’t know, but I was sure glad that my neighbor saw him and called the cops, and I am yet grateful that the cops were on the case protecting me and my family. Now, let’s say that this young man was tasered and died, like Mike did. This young man should have known better, his activities were suspicious looking, but is that any reason for this young man to lose his life. As it turned out the police in my story handled the situation well, the young man was subdued and no one lost their life. I appreciate police protection. I just don’t like it when people, who are clearly using poor judgement, but are not hurting anyone, have to lose their lives. It is happening too often, not to warrant reevaluation of the Taser Gun.

STOP Taser Gun Murders NOW!!!

(Linda Hicks) toledoblade.com

I am so angry about Taser Torture Murders that I am almost numb. I have signed a petition for Congressional Hearings.  I have directed my readers to other sites that have current information about this problem. but it’s far from enough. I am  seeing the numbers of deaths, from taser torture, rise. 

And I’m not surprised because the history of America is riddled with violence and wars. The culture of America is full of violence. When we don’t agree, we assassinate. When we want to end relationships, with spouses, lovers, parents, children, we kill them and stuff their bodies somewhere.  When we are angry and vengeful, we point guns, and swing bats, and wield knives. But when a civil servant puts on a blue uniform, a badge, and is assigned a gun, I immediately hold them to a higher standard than the rest of us. I thought police officers were taught to handle their weapons. I thought that police officers were trained to disarm escalated situations. And I also thought that their main goal was to subdue a person and not kill.  This situation involving Taser Guns really reminds me of the ‘Old Jim Crow South’, the KKK and Lynching, because nothing concrete has been done to solve this problem. The young, the old, black, white, hispanic, male and female are dying without due process of law. Ironically, when I first heard about these new taser guns and saw them subdue a suspect, I thought that lives would be saved. Well lives are not being saved. 

A woman, Tanya Murphy, operates a home for the mentally ill, and Linda Hicks (62) was one of its residents. Ms. Hicks, had supposedly stopped taking her medication and allegedly became agitated and violent. Ms. Murphy called 911 and asked specifically for a crisis team. Moments later Ms. Linda Hicks was shot in the head by one of the two police officers who responded, because she was allegedly threatening people with scissors. This is a NATIONAL TRAGEDY.  And it also the end of someone’s life. Life can deal anyone of us a difficult hand, but it is our life, and that is precious. People’s lives are being stolen, and lives in America are being stolen in many different ways everyday, but this way affects me most.  Read some of the more peculiar aspects of this story. Please, go to www.Petition2Congress.com  and do a search for Taser Torture and sign the petition that comes up.