Directed Energy Weapons in Use in Prison

Participatory journalism taken to the extreme.

The reporters standing in front of me in line shouted in agony and crumpled in pain as the laser cannon zapped them.

With each agonizing shriek I heard, my time in front of the laser cannon grew closer until finally I stepped onto the firing line.

Would I pop like a popcorn kernel? I didn’t know.

I had a date with the Assault Intervention Device on Friday. And yes, the device is as horrifying as it sounds.??The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department tested its latest non-lethal weapon at the Pitchess Detention Center on hapless members of the news media.

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