On August 11th 2011, California’s Bay Area became (probably) the “first place in the United States to have had its electronic communications deliberately disabled in order to pre-empt a political protest.”
by Allen Hines Jody McIntyre, a 20-year-old activist and blogger with cerebral palsy, joined the ongoing student demonstrations in London. On Dec. 8, he says, police struck him on the shoulder with a baton and twice that day dragged him from his wheelchair. A fellow activist caught the second incident on a cell phone. The Read more about Police brutality on wheels[…]