Am resending this email, as somehow it doesn't appear to have posted to the list the first time I sent it.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
From: Starchild <sfdreamer@earthlink.net>
Date: March 19, 2018 3:54:03 AM PDT
To: LPSF Activist List <lpsf-activists@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Argument against Prop. H (Tasers)Here's my proposed argument against Proposition H (Tasers). At 190 words, it would cost us $580 (probably a little less after applying the Election Department's word count).
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Proposition H is a police union attempt to evade civilian oversight by the Police Commission and Board of Supervisors, and give officers carte blanche to injure or kill people who are not resisting by any common sense meaning of that term.
The SFPD shockingly defines “active resistance” to include a person “tensing”, “running away”, or even “verbally… signaling an intention to avoid or prevent being taken into or retained in custody”(!):
Proposition H would specifically let officers Tase anyone who is “actively resisting”!
This is a recipe for unjustified homicide, because Tasers are not safe – hundreds of people in the United States have died after being Tased by police:
Using potentially lethal force against someone who poses no threat to anyone, but tenses or runs away because they are frightened, or simply attempts to talk to an officer to avoid being arrested, is absolutely unacceptable!
Many San Franciscans don’t want police using Tasers at all. Civilian authorities, not the SFPD themselves, need to write the rules concerning if and how officers use these deadly weapons on our streets.
Vote NO on H!
Libertarian Party of San Francisco
www.LPSF.org