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We expose and tell the truth in a world filled with confusion and bold-faced lies.

We delve into the facts not the fiction about: TASERS —Conducted Energy Devices (CED’s) also referred to as Conducted Energy Weapons (CEW’s): A weapon that is deemed to be “less than lethal” and has been touted as saving lives and reducing civilian shootings, but in reality, carries the heavy baggage of a complicated past that I’ve personally observed being deployed in a punitive, wanton and capricious manner.

We’ll investigate:

— how law enforcement is said to deploy this weapon and how they often truly deploy it in reality.

We’ll examine:

— several case studies

— the CEW policy of The Akron Police Department (as one of its officers recently fired a TASER at an alleged person of interest riding a bicycle)

— the NYPD and its use of the TASER throughout the capital of the world, New York City

— and peel back all of the critical layers of the onion as to whether these devices can increase the incidence of death from its use.

Have you ever been tased?

From reputable law enforcement officers, I’ve been told that you lose control of your bowels and bladder for about a week following being tased.

The TASER is an acronym for, believe it or not, (Thomas A. Swift’s Electronic Rifle), named after a favorite book of the inventor John Cover who developed the device in the mid 70’s. Cover was a NASA physicist.

The hand-held device can be used to incapacitate a person by transmitting a 50K volt electric shock delivered through two, small, barbed darts intended to penetrate clothing, puncture the skin and remain attached to the target.

The darts are connected to the main unit by a thin insulated copper wire and deliver a modulated or controlled electric current designed to disrupt voluntary control of muscles, causing temporary neuromuscular incapacitation (NMI).

If the heart is a muscle and it is governed by the electrical system of the human body, why couldn’t this device affect the heart muscle? In peer reviewed research in the scholarly journal “Circulation” from The American Heart Association – an article focused on: TASER: Electronic Control Devices Can Cause Cardiac Arrest in Humans.

In more than 1 instance, it has. The TASER is a branded name which can also be used as a stun gun by pressing it directly against the target’s body, thereby administering an electric shock. Similar to a “cattle prod on steroids”.

Many in the law enforcement community stand firmly behind the Taser and disagree vehemently that officers are cavalierly using Tasers on people who are passively resisting.

However, the fact pattern shows instance after instance where officers have deployed this weapon -- even when they face little danger -- as a means to subdue unarmed people or in a punitive nature for those already in police custody.

You be the judge. Watch this video. Officer Used Stun Gun on a Migrant Holding a Toddler, video shows.

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Welcome to this brand-new episode of Light ‘Em Up!

Tell a friend that lives overseas about us! We are now actively being downloaded in 114 countries.

On this investigative, educational and impactful edition of Light ‘Em Up — we expose and tell the truth in a world filled with confusion and misinformation.

We delve into the facts not the fiction about: Protecting your Constitutional & Civil Rights and educating you on topics that we’re betting you rarely hear or know much about but should know everything about.

We drill deep on:

— Pretextual traffic stops (something we’ve given great attention to here on Light ‘Em Up)

— Section 1983 lawsuits

— and as a case study we examine Whren v U.S. (517 US 806 (1996), a landmark Supreme Court decision that relates directly to how law enforcement interacts with the public today.

With a fine-tooth comb, we examine the details as to what exactly is going on in Cleveland, Ohio as the Division of Police, which is currently under DOJ (consent decree) oversight, continues to allegedly cheat, stretch, break and violate the law by intentionally stopping and searching black drivers at much higher rates than white Clevelanders.

We explore “When cops become robbers”: When law enforcement officers use their badge and authority to “game” the citizenry as they violate the spirit and letter of the law.

We tell the story of the Tenaha, TX Police Department, whose officers were (allegedly) intentionally using their authority to “shake-down” the good people passing through their city limits. The lead officer directly involved literally expressed the intention of using “the money that they get from thugs “from a newly created drug interdiction program to pay the town’s bills.

A class action lawsuit asserted that their pretextual traffic enforcement scheme was bogus and was designed solely to enhance the city financially and the defendants personally.

Especially for you, we have exclusive audio of the Rehnquist High Court as the attorney on behalf of the petitioner (Whren), Lisa Burget Wright, argues their position before the high court on April 17th, 1996.

Whren vs U.S. says that “a stop or search that is objectively reasonable is not diminished by the fact that the officer’s real reason for making the stop or search has nothing to do with the validating reason”. (Meaning that it is acceptable for an officer to make up a reason to stop you.)

We explore and define a §1983 lawsuit, which provides an individual the right to sue state government employees and others acting under the color of state law for civil rights violations.

For your education and empowerment, we explore §242 of Title 18, which makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the U.S., and we provide crucial insights as to what your rights are when you are stopped by law enforcement. And we delve into pretextual traffic stops: What are they, and how they are used against you.

We also offer a “Know Before You Go” pre-travel safety check-list that will help limit your potential exposure and hopefully reduce the likelihood of being pulled over for any legitimate or pretextual moving traffic violations.

Finally, we review an in-depth analysis of what more than 17,000 traffic stops in the City of Cleveland has exposed in and among the CDP (Cleveland Division of Police) as it initially appears that they disproportionately pull over Black drivers with much more frequency than white motorists.

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Welcome back to this brand-new, explosive, visionary, investigative edition of Light 'Em Up.

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Without fear or favor, we shine the antiseptic light of the truth on any topic that we undertake and report on.

On this episode we focus on and explore emerging ways of addressing critical issues in the criminal justice system and policing — drilling down on and beginning a focused conversation as to:

Rethinking how law enforcement is deployed and all too often traffic stop by police.

Public safety has long been treated as the near-exclusive province of law enforcement agencies.

Police are tasked with countless challenging and many dangerous duties, including but not limited to:

— Responding to active crime scenes

— 911 calls for service (that are made all the more unpredictable by the prevalence of guns on our streets and gun ownership in the U.S.)

— People who are in the grips of a mental health crisis
— Domestic violence situations

The most common 911 calls include: business checks, disturbances, suspicious persons, and complaints.

Simply put, the police are over-tasked and vastly undertrained to deal with a myriad of complex issues that 21st Century Policing encounters and demands — especially those that center around mental health.

The risk of being killed while being approached or stopped by law enforcement in the community is 16 times higher for individuals with untreated serious mental illness than for other civilians.

For the safety of the public and law enforcement officers equally, we have to begin to re-think, re-examine and re-engineer these concepts, whether it be the biased enforcement of traffic laws by police which drive racial disparities in the criminal justice system or topics like we’ve covered in the past such as “DWB” or Driving While Black in America.

— Police in the U.S. conduct more than 20 million traffic stops per year
— Some 42% of African Americans say that police have stopped them just because of their race

— 59% of the U.S. public believes that this practice of racial profiling is widespread

— 81% disapprove of it — or at least express the concept that they do

Civilian first responders dedicated to traffic and road safety can better serve communities by resolving traffic and safety issues without the potential for punitive law enforcement action.

Racial profiling is a significant policing and social problem. We all witnessed how fast the police incident with Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill escalated quickly from the body worn camera of the officer on scene.

To mitigate the risk of harm to both the police and the public, many municipalities have tasked unarmed, non-law enforcement responders to address nonviolent social and medical issues such as mental health crises or have narrowed the scope of police discretion and duties in traffic enforcement.

How many times have we seen in the past where a citizen is pulled over for a minor traffic infraction and it has escalated into a deadly encounter?

— An expired registration
— A crack in a windshield
— Littering

It happens every day, don’t be fooled!

Click here to see the list of the top jurisdictions that have first responder programs across the U.S.

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