My question clarified:

http://rochester.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20757/index.php

Does anyone remember when RPD tased a young girl?

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I was wondering if anyone remembered when the RPD tased a little girl because she supposed had a knife or something. I think she was like 12 or something. I couldn't find anything about it on the internet. Stories like that seem to get lost.

Another side point, does anyone remember Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez?

There's some info posted here at the URL below.
Anyway, that's another news story that seemed to disappear as soon as it was released.

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http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/index.php?s=6df2e3a85afc75b8083626fa14003354&showtopic=19049&st=1420&


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Re: Does anyone remember when RPD tased a young girl?Current rating: 0
02 Oct 2007
by Anonymous Poster
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No, they actually shot the 13 year old girl many times when she supposedly charged a police office w/ a knife. The mother had called 911 because her child had threatened to kill herself.

Even though community activists compelled the RPD to get a task force to especially deal with "emotionally disturbed/mentally ill people" after a previous incident where a grown man was tazed to death after he ran through the now deserted Driving Pk Wegmans in his underwear, yelling "Jesus is Coming."

I forwarded around email asking people to attend press conferences & rallies that a local activist was sponsoring around what happened to that little girl. A local public defender and Metro Justice board member told me that the local progressive community wouldn't work with the activist because she was a "crazy, irrational nig-er." Rochester Indymedia has repeatedly supported and defended that public defender, in fact blaming me for breaking the public defender's "confidence" by sharing the email with others.

After Joyce Powell, the activist in question, threatened a "sit-in" at the public safety building after an elderly lady was killed under similar circumstances, the RPD framed her and convicted her without ANY evidence accept connecting her to an assault, aside from the uncredible testimony of a witness who was in "recovery" from crack-cocaine addiction and was a convicted forger and welfare fraud.

There were many printed stories (and television) about all these cases. Lawrence Rogers, Lashedica Mason and Patricia Thompson, as well as Joyce Powell. I actually met the girl of whom you speak and brought her free groceries from Friends Helping Friends.

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03 Oct 2007
by Anonymous Poster
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