Across the pond:

Police fired a 50,000-volt Taser into the head of a 45-year-old company director who later proved to be unarmed and innocent. Daniel Sylvester, the owner of an east London security firm employing 65 staff to guard council offices, pubs and nightclubs, was driving home on October 20 when he was stopped by armed police because of “firearms related intelligence”.

According to Sylvester, he got out of his car and was surrounded by officers, at least two of whom were carrying automatic weapons. Without warning, one officer fired a Taser into the back of his head which made him drop to his knees, he said. A second shock caused him to fall on his face, breaking a front tooth. A further six shocks made him wet himself and left him lying in the road in pain while the officers and sniffer dogs searched the car and found nothing.
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Tasers have been used 47 times in London this year, with black people accounting for almost two-thirds of those stunned.

The government extended the right to use Tasers for all firearms officers in England and Wales this summer. [via]

Tasers seem too easy. They may pose an overall lower risk than firearms, but it seems that makes police more likely to use them, even when it isn’t necessary.

And next door:

Illinois gets a coal plant, but this is apparently a Very Special coal plant:

A futuristic power plant aimed at burning coal without emitting global warming gases will be built in Illinois, an industry group said Tuesday.

Instead of excreting carbon dioxide into the air (a leading greenhouse gas), they hope to liquify it and bury it.

I had to look that one up. Burying CO2? That just seems foolish. Japan was trying it out in 2006 and I’m not sure of their success, but it seems science isn’t too sure if it will stay buried.

I’m not totally down with the idea of transforming the gas into a liquid and then placing the liquid into barrels and then burying the barrels into the ground. —Won’t that be a nice gift to future generations?

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