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DESCRIPTION:Speak Out Against Tasers\nPolice Commission Meeting\nWednesday, February 
 10, 5:30 PM\nCity Hall, Room 400\n\nAccording to a Feb 3rd SF Chronicle, 
 http://tinyurl.com/z3hrhpa, Police Chief Greg Suhr plans to reintroduce 
 equipping officers with stun guns at next week’s Police Commission 
 meeting (Wed, Feb 10).  In the article Suhr says he believes that if the 
 five officers who shot Woods had a Taser, Woods would not be dead. 
 \n\nMayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr are cynically trying to use our 
 outrage over the SF Police Department’s execution-style murder of Mario 
 Woods to push for arming SF police with tasers. They claim that if the 
 police had tasers, it would not have been “necessary” to kill Mario.  
 It’s outrageous enough for Suhr to suggest it was necessary to gun Mario 
 down like a mad dog.  But he’s also lying again.  He's saying that in a 
 life-endangering police confrontation, when it’s now “necessary” to 
 kill us, that using a taser would make it "unnecessary" to kill us.\n\nThis 
 is a deliberate lie, because police training procedures explicitly say that 
 in a life-threatening situation, officers are *NOT* to use tasers; they are 
 to use guns instead.  So this same racist routine of police killing people 
 of color they say are endangering them will continue, whether cops have 
 tasers or not.  In fact, a UCSF study showed fatal police shootings 
 increase after police have tasers.\n\nInstead, tasers will just be another 
 weapon police have to terrorize us unto submission.  80% of taser use is 
 against unarmed victims, frequently in handcuffs or hog-tied. Tasers are 
 used against people who disturb the orderly flow of public meetings, as we 
 did to stop the new jail.  Or women who don't put out their cigarette, as 
 with Sandra Bland.  Police use tasers disproportionately against Blacks, 
 Latins, people with disabilities, homeless, and the mentally ill. In San 
 Diego Blacks and Latins are twice as likely to be tased as 
 whites\n\nAnybody who's been downtown during Superbowl week or seen videos 
 of it, guards with submachine guns all over the place has gotten a visceral 
 idea of what increased police presence means.  After the Superbowl, when 
 things "calm down," things will not be as they were.  San Francisco is 
 hiring up to 400 new police at the same time that people's anger and 
 outrage is growing over evictions, displacement, luxury condos, and 
 gentrification.   We need justice, not tasers.  Please come to the Police 
 Commission next Wednesday, February 10, 5:30 PM in City Hall, Room 400.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/05/18782647.php
SUMMARY:Speak Out Against Tasers for SF Police
LOCATION:SF Police Commission\nSF City Hall, Room 400\nPolk, betw Grove & McAllister
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/02/05/18782647.php
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