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...suspended a police officer after a video surfaced showing him repeatedly tasering an intoxicated woman, even after she had been handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car. That same week in California, an officer tasered an autistic teenager who had been running in and out of traffic as he tried to escape a treatment center. Other cases across the country include the use of Tasers on pregnant women, the elderly and children as young as six. Tasering someone on drugs has proven to be especially dangerous and often lethal...
...which they were. An individual then pushed another to force the reporting party out of the room. Another individual arrived and tried to reinforce the message of the reporting party, but was also pushed.October 119:32 a.m.—HUPD officers observed an individual blocking the flow of traffic on a one-way, single-lane street on Radcliffe Campus Drive. They asked the driver to move, which the driver refused to do. Officers then asked for identification, which the driver also refused. Abdirahman Dualle, 23, of Roxbury, Mass., was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.October...
...conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU), which governs in coalition with the SPD, are opposed. Angela Merkel, the otherwise environment-friendly German Chancellor and a member of the CDU, said that no such change would take place on her watch. She said that Germany would be better off improving traffic circulation in order to reduce the amount of time cars spent in traffic jams. Other parliamentarians said Germany should push technical fixes such as more fuel efficient cars...
...thousands of Iraqi police and armed neighborhood watchmen, leading to the nickname "Fortress Fallujah." "It's an unfortunate side effect of securing the city," Miller explained, reminding his Iraqi partners that the main drag through the city, which used to feed the district its lifeblood of customers and commercial traffic, is also part of the traditional "rat line" or infiltration route for insurgents...
With a current driving ban limiting traffic on the road mostly to buses and taxis, it will be some time before Fallujah allows full access to Sinaa. Eventually, the plan is to tear down the barriers one at a time to allow the city to gradually return to normal and end the state of martial law. Doing that in Sinaa could jump-start Fallujah's economy and revive a general sense of well-being and promise, solidifying gains and allowing the Marines to finally leave. "It's the key," said Waleed al Fallujy, Sinaa's mukhtar, or neighborhood chief...