PigBrother Live Show

kildare | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Monday September 25, 2006 19:29 by Pig Brother Little brother

Police Weapons, Tactics and Effects

PigBrother.info -- It's your right to watch the Cops!

At National University Ireland
Maynooth
Lecture Theatre Four
John Hume Building
6.30 pm

Soulless & Anger present:
It's your right to watch the Cops!
PigBrother Live Show
A Survey of Police Weapons, their Effects
and why responsible Officers usually get away
Multimedia Live Show

Internationally, police officers who mutilate or kill people on duty usually get off scot free, many times the cases not even making the news. The Swiss internet site PigBrother.info deals with such cases and the police weapons involved. Though often labelled "less lethal" and claimed to be "harmless", actually many proved to be fatal, not to mention lots of them being banned in war by e.g. the Geneva Convention but nevertheless frequently used by policeforces worldwide (like e.g. Dum Dum Bullets that a.o. killed Jean Charles de Menezes, but also the so called "Tear Gas").

In a multi media live show, Soulless and Anger (the makers of a.o. the homepage PigBrother.info and also of the banned video comedy "Blutgeil") present typical cases incl. weapons, injuries and favourite police excuses a.o. from the UK, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, USA and Switzerland, where the use of sophisticated police weapons dates back some decades.

Despite the technical aspects and it's heavy going topic, the show is presented in an easy to understand and concise way, and Soulless & Anger also focus on the funnier aspects of several Police Operations making the Officers involved look only too human ...

And they demonstrate, how persistent work in this area can make a difference, forcing the police and the official media to at least sometimes act more by the book or even abolish some weapons or tactics. Without omitting, that such work on the other hand also involves some personal risks, like Soulless & Anger got to know themselves, suffering a.o. an illegal raid of their offices plus several arrests and court cases trying to gag them and to bring their homepages offline -- though up to now without success ...

Introduction:
- About PigBrother.info
- The astonishing similarities of Police excuses over the course of decades and in different countries

Batons:
- The evolution of the Police Baton
- Police Guidelines & reality
- Injuries & fatalities in different countries
- Recent campaigns in the UK

Rubber- & Plastic Bullets:
- Police Tactics: Manpower vs. Machinery
- The birth of the "flying baton" in the former english colonies ...
- ... and it's adoption by police forces worldwide
- Injuries & fatalities in different countries
- Newer, more sophisticated models
- Wooden bullets
- "Marking" ammunition

"Tear Gas":
- Different chemical agents and their effects
- Different forms of application: Smoke grenade, handheld sprays, backcannisters, lacing water cannons
- Typical injuries in different countries
- Over 1000 fatalities worldwide
- Banned by the Geneva Convention

Concussion- and Stun-Grenades:
- Evolution
- Injuries & fatalities in different countries

Dum Dum Bullets:
- The birth of the Dum Dum Bullet in the former english colonies ...
- ... and it's slow adoption by police forces worldwide
- Internationally identical Police denials: Only "Manstop"- rsp. "Deformation"-Ammo
- What ballistics experts say
- Banned by the Hague Convention

Electric & Microwave Weapons etc:
- Taser: Evolution, injuries & fatalities, use as a means of torture
- Active Denial System ADS
- Further developments

The Media:
- Why the media look away
- The exceptions
- How they can be forced to notice

The Judiciary System:
- Why there's an effective immunity for officers
- The exceptions
- How to make justice work

Civil Rights Campaigns & Organisations:
- Why many ignore the facts in the homelands rsp. only investigate abuse abroad
- Brief international survey of exceptions
- Unfortunately a one-off case:The Critical Police Workers Union in Germany
- What can happen when someone adresses local police brutality & how to deal with the consequences without getting dragged down

Q & A, if possible Panel Discussion with local groups/campaigns, the idea being to give them an opportunity to give updates about the latest development and sharing ideas & experiences