LGBT Weekly: Raw Video Of Brooke Fantelli Being Tazed By Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ranger

Accompanying article on LGBT Weekly (http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/12/03/rangers-crotch-tazing-of-trans-woman-caught-on­-video/) by Autumn Sandeen (http://lgbtweekly.com/category/commentary/transprogressive/).

Article excerpt:

...Standing, hands up in the air with no visible resistance to arrest, Ranger Petter tazed Brooke Fantelli in the abdomen. At slightly more than 50 seconds into the video, the ranger tazed her a second time -- this time in the crotch.

Back when Brooke Fantelli was known as Rodd Fantelli, she was a well known off-road race driver who won numerous races. She owns Fantelli Racing Products in Ramona, a custom off-road fabrication shop with 20 years of fabrication and racing history -- she's still a well known figure in the off-road racing community.

Oct. 22 she was out in the Imperial County desert on federal land. With her were a long-time friend, a photographer, two models and a preteen who was a child of one of the models. They were out in the desert to take photos of the two models for their portfolios, and they were using one of Brooke's trucks and the desert as the backdrop for the photos.

According to Brooke, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ranger by the name of Petter came by to see what the group was doing. Ranger Petter, in the process of finding out what they were doing, looked at the identification of all of the members of the group, and this is where the problems began...


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[Godarth]

You must keep us informed about this event here , ok?

[autumn59]

@Godarth LGBT Weekly and I will.

[autumn59]

@Godarth Just heard from Brooke she's meeting with the BLM in a week and a half. Curious how that meeting is going to go.

[ramzyi9]

Dam those suckers are lucky they didn't get a baseball bat to the back of ther head and left in a shallow grave.... Im just saying

[Winterbadger]

why is the world so fucking backward?

[int0x19]

@Boots2Asses1 This has nothing to do with sexual orientation, indeed. The idea that "not compying with the commands of the officer" can get you tazed is idiotic in general. Tazers (and other weapons that police carries) are there to protect themselves and others against actual arm. They are not meant as forced compliance devices. Using them in that way is basically torture.

[kagenooni]

It's not illegal to videotape police period. You can videotape whatever you want so long as it is in public and there is 'no reason to believe you have privacy'.

[Godarth]

@autumn59 What is BLM?

[revolvermikey]

nice work!

[Anasanakaama]

Terrible. Those cops should get a punishment.

(PS. I found this video on a Finnish news website... it's spreading.)

[Boots2Asses1]

Since the individual did not comply to the commands of the officer (kept saying "I did nothing wrong") the individual got tased. Secondly, the one filming the video is wrong in regards to drinking. You can not drink in the desert since that is considered to be public intoxication. Lastly, this has nothing do with sexual orientation...straight people get tased too. Also, BLM have to be P.O.S.T certified in the state of CA like police officers, which makes them officers as well.

[casevero]

Policial autoritario e sem carater existe em qualquer lugar do mundo.

[jrustystafford]

How long does it take dumb and dumber to cuff her