Bad police(man)

Today when i was eating my (very early) breakfast while watching TV, i was astonished by a very horrific news: a policeman tasered a woman 7 times during 4 minutes. Just to let you know, a taser can give up to 50.000 volts of electricity, enough to electricute somebody with shocking pain, but not deadly (despite the fact around 200 people died from tasers for the last 7 years). The TV news showed the video footage of the incident repeatedly, making me feel sicker and sicker as i watched it. The woman was a bit drunk at that time, but as far as i know from the news, she did not do any aggressive physical actions. All she done was just refusing the policeman's order to step out of a vehicle she was in, with a simple "No."

This appalling behaviour of a policeman in the US adds up to the common brutality of policemen i know that've been done in the past few weeks. Just yesterday, police officers in the US were reported to have tasered a uni student after he allegedly raised 'innappropriate' questions during a forum. Early this month, NSW police were acting brutal towards us sydneysiders! Yup, there were reports of some photographers pushed to the ground during APEC, and a father of two being detained for almost a day simply because he tried to cross a street before a motorcade was about to pass by. This makes me hate policemen. Sorry.

As for policewomen, i haven't quite experienced nor witnesesd any of their misconduct. Hmm... there was even once a policewoman who kindly told me not to walk through dark and quiet alleys as they can be dangerous, especially there in Kingsford.