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Saturday, June 8, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Black 14-year-old Carrying a Puppy Tackled and Choked by Police for Giving Them a "Dehumanizing Stare"
New cell phone footage shows Miami-Dade Police officers aggressively pinning an unarmed teen to the ground while choking him. His alleged crime: giving the officers “dehumanizing stares” and “clenching his fists.”
Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillan says he was feeding his puppy and playing on the beach with some friends when cops riding ATVs approached him and asked what he was doing. The “peacekeeping” officers say they saw McMillan roughhousing with another teenager, told him it was “unacceptable behavior,” and asked where his mother was. When McMillan walked away, they chased him on ATVs, jumped out, pinned him to the ground and arrested him. According to police reports, McMillan “attempted to pull his arm away, stating, "Man, don"t touch me like I did something."” See footage of the incident, captured by McMillan"s mother:
McMillan says he obeyed orders, and was leading the officers towards his mother when they jumped him. The teen adds that he was feeding holding and feeding his puppy at the time, who got injured during the encounter.
“I don’t like it. I feel sad. He got in front of me on the ATC (sic) and he slammed my hand,” McMillan said. “Then he started choking me. Then my 6-week old Pit Bull mix named Polo got hurt and bruised his front paw when the police grabbed me and slammed me down. It makes me feel sad.”
Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta justified the use of force, saying McMillan was exhibiting threatening “body language,” which includes “clenched fists.” McMillan adamantly denies this charge because, well, he was holding a puppy.
“Of course we have to neutralize the threat in front of us,” said Zabaleta. “And when you have somebody that is being resistant, somebody that is pulling away from you, somebody that’s clenching their fist, somebody that’s flaring their arms, that’s the immediate threat.”
McMillan’s mother, Maurissa Holmes saw the incident and recorded it on her cell phone. She told WSVN-TV, “I ran over there and said, "That"s my son, that"s my son. Can you get off of him? He can"t breathe."
Police charged McMillan with resisting arrest, a felony, and disorderly conduct. The teen’s attorney entered a plea of not guilty for his client and asked the court to reconsider the charges. The judge did not grant him his request.
McMillan’s 6-week old puppy, who suffers an injured front paw, did not make the police report.
“At this point we are not concerned with a puppy,” said Zabaleta.
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Black 14-year-old Carrying a Puppy Tackled and Choked by Police for Giving Them a "Dehumanizing Stare"
Monday, May 27, 2013
Meet A Pet Drone That Follows You Like A Lost Puppy [Video]
This autonomous flying servant can track and record you from the sky.
Posted 05.27.2013 at 12:00 pm
Pet Drone This flying intelligent drone can track an owner and record their every move. Dave Mosher/Popular Science
Drones can’t fetch a taco for you, but they can lift cameras into the sky and return impressive aerial video and photography. Trouble is, today’s flying machines require a human pilot to manipulate their complex controls.
Sameer Parekh wants do away with remotes and have intelligent drones simply do his bidding. So he quit his day job as a Wall Street quant and launched an autonomous flying robot company, called Falkor Systems. (Note: It recently merged with I Heart Engineering, a company that builds and sells open-source robotics products.)
Parekh’s early Pet AR.Drone prototype uses artificial intelligence algorithms to track a person, follow him or her around from a safe distance, and film the journey.
In the video below, the drone is trained to follow a graphic on a T-shirt. Within the next few years, however, Parekh hopes to refine his intelligent drone software and hardware enough to sell them to extreme athletes, such as BASE jumpers. “They’ll be able to track [them] autonomously as they jump off the cliff,” he says.
We stepped inside Parekh’s Brooklyn, New York workshop to get an early look at the future — one in which flying drones may be commonplace enough to be pets. And maybe fetch that taco.
Popular Science – New Technology, Science News, The Future Now
Meet A Pet Drone That Follows You Like A Lost Puppy [Video]
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Why your puppy bark at other dogs
If you happen to have got a puppy and he is showing excessive interest in other dogs then this is very normal. Dogs are usually born with a deep affinity for others of their species and as long is this nurtured well they"ll be social animals. It is extremely important to permit your puppy to play with other dogs of whatever size and ages. Dog communication is taught and refined via other dogs as an element of their nature.
I usually grovel when out walking, and see a puppy being picked up when approached by an amiable dog. It"s a sad sight to look at a baby of a species desperate to have interaction with others of his type looking crestfallen as he is swept into the air. It is at about that point where social issues for puppies begin.
Older dogs will teach your puppy, among other things bite inhibition, social manners and play. To reach maturity socially adept your puppy should have the chance to play with other dogs constantly. It is natural for dogs to live in multiples and to deprive a dog of this will end up in exasperated and unwelcome behaviour. The effort of learning how to train a dog socially will never equal giving your puppy the opportunity to learn manners from another dog.
The adult dog on the end of a leash that"s barking toward another dog is generally under socialised. He hasn"t been given the chance to learn the way to interact with others and is socially isolated. The behavior exhibited is usually based in fear. The poor dog has no idea what to do so he barks.
Well socialised dogs don"t bark and strain a leash to see another dog. They have plenty of social contact and therefore are less scared of either missing the opportunity to interact or the situation getting out of control. They have also been taught satisfactory behavior in dog language, so when they do meet other dogs they often behave nicely.
This essay aims to raise your understanding of puppy socialization. This and positive dog obedience training strategieswill enable you to raise the ideal puppy. For more info on how to train your dog feel free to visit The Dog Trick Academy.
Why your puppy bark at other dogs
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