Full length video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVdH1G0KQt4
August 20, 2005: young woman is held to the ground and tasered at a counter-recruitment demonstration in Pittsburgh, PA. An older woman is bitten by a police dog and then arrested. Two small children are pepper-sprayed and an M.S. patient is toppled in his motorized scooter.

If you are around Pittsburg, they are planning an aniversary protest, so you too can be harassed by the police for being on the sidewalk.

I respect their right to protest, but that woman was not "restrained".

The video is edited to start right as she is getting tazed, and I agree with theo47, she does not appear to be restrained. It also looks as though she is fighting back, and, although the angle make it hard to tell, she appears to hit one of the officers.

the police may have been brutal, and they may have been wrong -- it's hard to tell in this clip. i always hate watching vids of people being tazed (i don't know what it feels like, but my mirror neurons tell me it's pretty bad). this woman was not restrained -- if she had been when the cops tazed her, then i'd say they'd crossed a line.

she wasn't, and it makes a difference.

She had three big officers on top of her. When you get the point that you are wrestling with a suspect, it's probably too late to use a taser. You note that one officer still was holding her and probably got a little shock. (Changed title)

I wholeheartedly agree with joedirt: 3 cops on top of her. No need for tasing. Talk about police brutality.

I hope she filed suit in court; wonder if Pittsburgh area judges would be sympathetic, though?

I'm sifting in the full video - worth watching. http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=7788

Pittsburg news articles:
(lawsuit and city investigation pending): http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=News%20Briefs&action=getComplete&ref=6052
(DoD labels these groups a "threat"):
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=News%20Briefs&action=getComplete&ref=5442
(On May 8 2006 the woman getting tastered (De'Anna) avoided a criminal record with a plea bargain - she "pled guilty to summary disorderly conduct"):
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/archive.cfm?type=News%20Briefs&action=getComplete&ref=6149

She is still in a civil suit against the city.

While I think the tazering is totally wrong, it's pretty funny how the protesters yelling in the video sound just like South Park characters, if you listen closely.

Welcome the land of the free.

Now I'm no Ben Matlock, but a woman wearing a balaclava (look it up) is probably not a peaceful protestor. Nor is that wannabe (an insult to real Ninja-Americans) in the background.

While I'm not a fan of cops in general, I sympathize with their plight. This is hardly police brutality. The modern thugs police have to take abuse from before corraling and arresting are no better or thoughtful than rioters after their team wins a sporting event. (Police don't cause riots either, agitators in the crowd do).

Since we have an all-volunteer military, what right do these "peaceful" protestors (no doubt in alliance with anarchist and communist groups) have to demand lawful military recruiting centers be shut down?

These "activist" thugs should travel to the Middle East to disrupt islamofascist recruitment if they want to "increase the peace."

For once I'm agreeing w/ you there q-mushroom on a point. They may have an argument for protesting our commitment in Iraq, but to protest a recruiting center isn't thinking it thru.
Our military is all voluntary. There's no draft or any other coercement. They should be lobbying their congressmen and senators, or going to Washington to protest I would think.

After viewing the "full" video...

First, they were obviously marching in protest, without a permit. I'm sure with a permit, cars would not be having to drive around them.

Secondly, they brought the children. I dispise seeing parents use their children as pawns in their battles. They were the ones endangering the children, not the police.

And, lastly, they were ILLEGALLY impeding a lawful GOVERNMENT workplace. Not a bright idea. The gov is gonna win out on that battle.

It wasn't a legal protest, it was a loud mob, plain and simple.

They may disagree with recruiters coming into high-schools, but the last time the Supreme Court ruled on this, it was allowed. If you are going to protest something, protest "carreer day", not just the recruiters.

if she was "restrained" then everyone would be tazer'd together, no?
that's why she is not "restrained" at the moment of tasering.

your reaction to this should not be coloured by whether or not you agree with the protest. that's a big mistake to make. the law should be the same regardless of what opinion you are spouting.

i think it's obvious she wasn't going to be running away or bombing anything, but the thing about the tazer is it must be SO tempting to dispense a bit of "justice" without the courts getting in the way too much.

"he/she deserved it" you all say. how nice. but last time i checked police are there to protect and serve, not to punish. so the issue is, did this tasering actually protect or serve anyone? i think not.

can't get away from the fact that some police officers think protestors are scum, and big bald dudes in shades get a hard on for beatings. FACT.

but, oh, he didn't hit her with a baton or shoot her with a gun, he just "tazered" her and we all know that's safe and looks much less naughty on camera, no blood, no hitting, SAFE FOR TV.

oh, and if you have to get a permit to protest... who issues that permit, and how do you protest the permit system? get a clue!

^Umm.. You get them at the city hall. It's illegal to protest in the middle of the road. That impedes traffic and endangers lives.
Tazers aren't about punishment. It's meant to get the person to co-operate with the LEOs. They keep resisting, they get tazed. It hurts, so they won't want to do it again. Notice how she just sat there after? Lesson learned.

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