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June 25, 2010, 06:35 PM | #1 | |
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Police Taser Bedridden Grandmother
Someone has to explain this one to me.
Further comments below. http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/28330.htm Quote:
I'd like to hear the officer articulate how he could "fear for his safety" because a frail, bedridden 86-year-old woman 'took a more aggressive posture in her bed'. And that posture would be what, exactly? There were reportedly ten (10) officers present and they were worried about their safety from an 86-year-old on oxygen? Do these officers have no cajones? No courage or fortitude? What would they have done to, say a teenager bedridden from a kidney transplant? Shoot him? It's times like this that it's hard to support the police. And after numerous stories about the misuse of tasers, I'm ready to lobby my local department to heavily restrict their issuance and use. Cops have been documented as using tasers on unruly 7-year-old girls for heaven's sake. The lawsuit against this agency and it's officers ought to be in the tens of millions of dollars for an outrageously excessive use of force.
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June 25, 2010, 06:51 PM | #2 |
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A bedridden old person on oxygen is not going to be physically vigorous and does not have strong recuperative powers. An old lady on oxygen does not have good cardiovascular. Might have stopped her heart, her breathing, might have suffocated her when they took the oxygen away.
Those cops are very fortunate not to have killed her.
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June 25, 2010, 06:54 PM | #3 |
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I think a monetary settlement and termination is getting off too easy for these criminals. They need to serve some jail time.
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June 25, 2010, 06:56 PM | #4 |
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Hopefully it will result in a lawsuit against El Reno PD plus a civil suit and criminal charges against each of the officers involved. This is waaay over the top.
This is the way enemies are made and reflects badly on every police officer. It's not simply a case of one or two rogue cops, which would be bad enough, but ten rogue cops!
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June 25, 2010, 09:03 PM | #5 |
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My first question is why were the police there in the first place?
My second question is how do these guys not face criminal charges for assault and civil rights violations? |
June 25, 2010, 09:16 PM | #6 | |
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June 25, 2010, 09:26 PM | #7 |
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this is a copy of the police report of the incident
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33557136/D...on-Lona-Varner |
June 25, 2010, 10:22 PM | #8 |
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Always two sides to every story. Crazy old lady threatens cop with kitchen knife so he calls for backup and then tazes her to protect himself and her... or... cops bust in unwanted and taze poor granny for no reason as they step on her o2 hose so she can't breath.
If the officer didn't have a taser this could have been suicide by cop.
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June 25, 2010, 10:36 PM | #9 |
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Trust me when I tell you this folks.Truth and fact is not the basis of most newspaper stories.Cops don't talk to the press after an incident,just the morons involved.Most of these stories are one sided and attempts to make money.Most scum bags have nothing to lose,so why let the truth get in the way?
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June 26, 2010, 12:05 AM | #10 |
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This isn't going anywhere useful at all.
If all you have to "contribute" in the future is a sentence or two describing your personal method of creative punishment.... Keep it to yourself.
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