A spokesperson for the police department said that Baker had interfered while officers were trying to arrest her mother, Charlene Bratton, for outstanding warrants due to unresolved traffic tickets.
“He said, put your hands behind your back. I said for what,” Bratton recalled. “Next thing you know he tackled me down on the ground.”
Both Baker and Bratton deny that the 12-year-old girl interfered with the arrest.
“I was just crying. I guess he got mad because I was crying or something, then he just took it out and just Tased me,” Baker insisted.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/02/12-year-old-girl-tasered-in-st-louis-victorias-secret/
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Police Shoots And Kills Innocent Man After Knocking On Wrong Door Without Identifying Themselves
Police in Florida fatally shot an innocent man over the weekend after they mistook him for an attempted murder suspect.
Lake County sheriff’s deputies were searching for a man named Jonathan Brown when they arrived at the Blueberry Hills Apartment complex in Leesburg early Sunday morning.
When the police banged on the wrong door, Andrew Lee Scott — who did not expect visitors — answered armed and ready, only to be fired at by the surprised officers.
“When we knocked on the door, the door opened and the occupant of that apartment was pointing a gun at deputies and that’s when we opened fire and killed him,” said Lt. John Herrell, according to WESH.
Officers admit they never identified themselves to Scott, a 26-year-old pizza deliveryman. Still, Herrell holds the victim at least partially responsible.
Residents said the unannounced knock at the door at 1:30 a.m. may be the reason why the tragedy happened.
“It’s just a bizarre set of circumstances,” he said. “The bottom line is, you point a gun at a deputy sheriff or police office, you’re going to get shot,” Herrell said.
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, responded to the incident in his blog.
“This is technically not a ‘no knock’ search,” Turley wrote. “In such searches, there is no knock but the officers are supposed to announce their identities in going into the property… Indeed, I have criticized the increasing use of ‘no knock’ warrants.”
Police later arrested Brown and another suspect at a second apartment building. The two are currently at the Lake County Jail, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the incident and police authorities placed the officer who shot Scott on administrative leave.
Now see…
You’re supposed to yell, “POLICE!” You don’t just run up on people’s doors, beating on them, in the wee fucking hours of the night, unidentified and expect them to stand there scratching their asses in their boxers.
If I had a gun, I’d probably have taken that shit to the door with me too. Shit, I WILL have a gun, they gonna open fire on me, too?
Shit.
I’m black.
They’ll probably bust a cap in me through the peephole.
Isn’t self-defense and protecting your family what pro-gun people cite as the reason why the second amendment is so important? This dude did exactly what those people would do. EXACTLY. Now tell me—what about this situation do y’all think worked re: defending his body and his home? The presence of firearms always escalates a situation.
(Before I get a million reblogs saying that I’m against the constitution or guns or whatever the hell, know that I’m not staunchly anti-guns. I just think they cause much more needless violence than they prevent.)
I don’t think Andrew did anything wrong. If someone bangs on my door at 1:30am and doesn’t identify themselves, I might do the same thing.
Also, it goes without saying that none of the police officers will be punished.
(via ughwhocares)
Some snippets: 
Atencio was arrested in West Phoenix for scaring a resident, Cathy Boyd, after kicking the apartment door of her neighbor.
Toxicology results from specimens, including those taken at St. Joseph’s Hospital hours after Atencio’s arrest earlier that day, showed no illicit drugs in Atencio’s system.
Several MCSO gendarmes joined the fray, in what one onlooker called “a big ol’ dog pile.” Though Atencio was smothered by officers, MCSO Sergeant Jason Weiers Tased Atencio several times.
Later, after Atencio was hauled to a “safe cell,” where he would be stripped of clothing and left to die, Hatton continued the abuse, kneeing Atencio as guards held him down.
The first few minutes of the altercation are off-screen, but the audio shows Thomas verbally giving up.
“I’m sorry, dude! I’m sorry,” Thomas said. But the blows continue. At minute 16:30, the trio comes back into focus, and both police officers are on top of Thomas.
“I can’t breathe dude, I can’t breathe!” protests Thomas. “Please, I can’t breathe!” Throughout, officers keep telling him to put his hands behind his back.
At minute 18, a back-up police car arrives at the scene and at least one more officer joins in. This is when the tasering starts, amid police requests to “stop resisting.” After more prolonged tasers, Thomas is wailing and multiple officers are piled on top of him.
At minute 20, Thomas cries out to his father, who isn’t there: “Dad! Dad! Dad! Help me, help me Dad!”
The video ends with emergency responders removing Thomas from the scene, who is now unconscious.
They murdered him. Police brutality is a big problem and something needs to be done. It’s systematic. They’re rarely caught and rarely punished.
This is the face of 37 year old Kelly Thomas after he was beaten to death by the police.
In a departure from the usual procedure, which is to tackle and cuff a suspect, King was tasered, kicked in the head, beaten with PR-24 batons or over one minute, then tackled and cuffed. The officers claimed that King was under the influence of PCP at the time of arrest, which caused him to be very aggressive and violent towards the officers. The video showed that he was crawling on the ground during the beating and that the police made no attempt to cuff him.
A subsequent test for the presence of PCP turned up negative. The incident was captured on a camcorder by resident George Holliday from his apartment in the vicinity. The tape was roughly ten minutes long.
