"CEDs can readily be used as instruments of torture; they are designed to control through incapacitation, but also through inflicting pain. These devices have no legitimate place in the Santa Clara County prison system. I encourage fellow citizens to write to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and speak forcefully against the deployment of CEDs in the prison system."
"Mr. Trump - the sign I carried last Saturday was made by my own hands, with cardboard from packages I have received, and the back sides of paper that I reuse, and with my marker pens. I did not get paid one red cent for either those materials or for my time standing on a corner with my sign saying: "DUE PROCESS IS A HUMAN RIGHT," and "LAW RULES US, NOT THE WHIM OF A DICTATOR.""
Conducted Energy Devices (CEDs) present a clear risk when deployed in correctional settings because they can be used to control through incapacitation and inflict pain. Historical social psychology experiments such as Milgram's obedience study and the Stanford prison experiment illustrate how ordinary people can administer or enable cruelty under institutional conditions. The Santa Clara County prison system should not adopt CEDs, and citizens are urged to oppose deployment by contacting the Board of Supervisors. Separately, protesters who handmade signs from reused materials and received no payment demand an apology for being falsely characterized as paid demonstrators.
Read at The Mercury News
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