[Peace] County Board meets @ Tasers Monday

[Brian Dolinar]

Champaign County Board Meeting To Discuss Tasers With Sheriff Dan Walsh

Calling all citizens!!!

This Monday, February 5 at 7 p.m.

Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice is calling all
citizens to come to the Champaign County Board meeting at Brookens
Institute, located at Washington and Lierman.

Sheriff Dan Walsh will be reporting to the County Board Justice
Committee about the use of Tasers in the Champaign County jail.  This
comes after many incidents of death and reported abuses in the County
jail.  In 2004, three suicides occurred in the jail within six months.
 Two more deaths have occurred, coming to a total of five deaths in
two years.

Concern has also arisen since Sgt. William Alan Myers was fired in
November 2005 for illegally using a Taser on an inmate.  It came to
light that Myers had abused a total of four inmates with a Taser, some
of them while in a restraint chair and with a hood over their head.
Myers is currently being prosecuted, but has been offered a plea
bargain with no time served.

We need concerned citizens to speak to the County Board during the
time for public comment, which begins at 7 p.m.  We also need warm
bodies who are willing to show their support by attending the meeting.

For more information see the attached questions delivered to the
County Board on Jan. 8, 2007 and read the article "No Bodily Harm:
Another Continuance for Sgt. Myers" at ucimc.org.

Peace, BD
-- 
Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
303 W. Locust St.
Urbana, IL 61801
briandolinar at gmail.com
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