Raytheon’s Directed Energy Pain Weapon Mounted from Ceiling in California Prison

August 23rd, 2010

Here’s another one for your bulging Land-O-The-Free file folder.

Via: The Signal:

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.

The device looks like a robotic laser gun and shoots an invisible “millimeter wave” from up to 85 feet at rowdy inmates causing them to feel like they’re burning. It’s intended to break up fighting inmates and prison riots.

“Jails are prone to acts of violence,” said Commander Bob Osborne after a press conference in the North County Correctional Facility.

“We a have a lot of violent people with anger issues.”

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