Word: weaponeering
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...officer whose car tires were slashed. The cop and his partner tracked down the gang member they believed was responsible and dropped him--naked--in a rival gang's turf. Perez tells of another CRASH officer who shot a suspect repeatedly with a beanbag shotgun--a nonlethal weapon used to knock suspects to the ground...
Last week the L.A.P.D. scandal veered off in a new direction as charges surfaced that the police have illegally used deportation as a weapon. Perez reported that CRASH officers conducted routine street sweeps to check the immigration status of suspected gang members. That would violate a 21-year-old Los Angeles policy that in most cases bars the police from arresting illegal aliens and turning them over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. CRASH officers have also been accused of using the INS to have antipolice witnesses deported. They allegedly worked from a list of 10,000 Latinos they believed...
Speakers also mentioned the more recent shooting of Sgt. Cornel Young Jr. by two fellow police officers. Young, a Providence, R.I. patrol officer, was in plainclothes and had drawn his weapon to assist the officers outside an all-night restaurant. He was shot and killed...
...member of El Modena's alliance: "I've seen Tony and other people threatened and harassed, and people need a place to come and talk about that." Studies show that gay and lesbian youth are seven times as likely as straight kids to be threatened or injured by a weapon at school and five times as likely to skip school because they feel unsafe...
Other professors give to the political action committees, which can donate up to $5000 per candidate per election. Council for a Livable World, an anti-nuclear weapon proliferation think tank, and the feminist Emily's List are popular among Harvard professors...