• Police Stun Gun Kills Teen With Bible

    From Joe Bruchis@1:14/400 to Fido-Net.CONSPRCY on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 14:30:59
    I sure hope the poor fellow in this article found Jesus. The stun gun killings by Police, nationwide, have been rapidly increasing. If you look at this in cojunction with what Police are doing, terrorizing children in schools, the security guards with their German Shepherds in airports, etc.,
    it is evident that a force worse than the S.S. is on the rise....and it's by design!



    Police Stun Gun Kills Teen With Bible

    Associated Press | October 31, 2006

    A teenager carrying a Bible and shouting "I want Jesus" was shot twice with
    a police stun gun and later died at a St. Louis hospital, authorities said.

    In a statement obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, police in Jerseyville, about 40 miles north of St. Louis, said 17-year-old Roger Holyfield would not acknowledge officers who approached him and he continued yelling, "I want Jesus."

    Police tried to calm the teen, but Holyfield became combative, according to the statement. Officers fired the stun gun at him after he ignored their warnings, then fired again when he continued struggling, police said.

    Holyfield was flown to St. Louis' Cardinal Glennon Hospital after the confrontation Saturday; he died there Sunday, police said.

    An autopsy was planned for Tuesday.

    The statement expressed sympathy to Holyfield's family but said city and police officials would not discuss the matter further.

    Calls Tuesday to Jerseyville Police Chief Brad Blackorby were not
    immediately returned. The department has been using stun guns for about five months, according to the statement.

    In a report released in March, international human rights group Amnesty International said it had logged at least 156 deaths across the country in
    the previous five years related to police stun guns.

    The rise in deaths accompanies a marked increase in the number of U.S. law enforcement agencies employing devices made by Taser International Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz. About 1,000 of the nation's 18,000 police agencies used Tasers in 2001; more than 7,000 departments had them last year, according to
    a government study.

    Police had used Tasers more than 70,000 times as of last year, Congress' Government Accountability Office said.

    Amnesty International has urged police departments to suspend the use of Tasers pending more study. Taser International said the group's count was flawed and falsely linked deaths to Taser use when there has been no such official conclusion.

    The city of St. Louis also drew unwanted attention for crime this week when
    it was named the most dangerous U.S. city by Morgan Quitno Press. The
    ranking looked only at crime within St. Louis city limits, not its metro
    area.
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