The LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) was used for the first time in the USA in Pittsburgh during the time of G20 summit on September 24-25th, 2009

Though this is not of recent news, even the King of Pop got to experience police violence. In this interview, the late Michael Jackson recounts his experience of police abuse when he was arrested for his child molestation case. Well, if celebrities get treated this way, what more for the average Joe?

Nothing like a barking, raving dog to get people intimidated with authority, not to mention instant arrest of people who want to be stubborn and get in their way. You can also see in the video an old lady who got bitten by the dog. How’s that for good old peaceful demonstration?

Shown in this video is a student filming cops during the homecoming at Queens University. Call it a case of being in the wrong time, wrong place, or filming the wrong people? Possibly. The guy did not sound that drunk, right? Well, some of the cops took it the wrong way and got the video taker busted. Case of wrongful arrest, anyone?

You have here a bus driver that gets hit by an off-duty cop. On the background is the call made presumably to 911 to report the incident. The driver then claims to have been hit on the left eye. The good thing is that there’s a camera to record the assault.

You got here the police stopping a couple of guys on the road. It seemed pretty much like a standard procedure, until one of the men being apprehended gets beaten up and tasered for apparently no reason. It would be hard to say what happened there, but it seemed pretty random beating from the camera angle.

Here, you get a guy resisting arrest. You get around four cops trying to cuff the guy. It could be the guy’s fault for not cooperating, so the guy gets a good dose of taser. For some folks, this could be overkill, but for others, it seems like the guy was asking for it.

It seems like British cops are also getting heavy-handed in their arrests. What’s more interesting in a clip of this BBC report is that the complaints against the police have been rising, and that a good percentage of these complaints are upheld. It seems like cops there are used to being rough and tough on civilians.

A cop sends a guy flying and slams him into a wall, leaving the poor guy in a coma. The bad thing is that it was a case of mistaken identity. The worse thing is that the police don’t see anything wrong with what the cop did. Is police violence standard operating procedure nowadays?