(note, photo is from David Lynch's Straight Story)
Posted on 08/05/2009 12:22:57 PM PDT by george76
State agents are investigating a Saturday incident in which a 76-year-old man driving a tractor in Glenrock was tasered by police after allegedly failing to obey their orders.
The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation will look into whether anyone connected to the incident committed a crime, said Special Agent Tim Hill.
The incident happened at Glenrock's annual Deer Creek Days event. Glenrock police said the man, who was operating an antique tractor, failed to obey directions in a parade, Hill said.
At some point afterward, police subdued and tasered the man.
During the incident, the man's tractor apparently ran into a police car
(Excerpt) Read more at trib.com ...
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what goes around will indeed come around.
Less than lethal is not nonlethal. Too many thugs with these ‘toys’. Not disparaging legitimate uses but a 76 year old man operating machinery shows the trigger happy nature of this situation.
(note, photo is from David Lynch's Straight Story)
>[This] shows the trigger happy nature of this situation.
Yep, I think so.
I am law and order, and generally respect the police, but there's too many of them that get away with bullish and criminal behaviour just because they wear a badge.....
imagine Waco and Ruby Ridge on a grander scale.....pay the cops the big bucks and promise a fantastic pension and you'll get the brown shirts...
The day of reckoning is fast approaching.
Officer Travenous decided that Mr Gross was not following the route back to the staging field from the beginning of the parade and this was not acceptable. Officer Travenous then raced around the tractor and pulled in front of the tractor which had an 8 year old child in the tractor seat and pulling a trailer with numerous children and senior citizens on it.
The driver of the tractor tried to stop but could not causing him to hit the police car that had just pulled in front of him. This caused all of the people on the trailer to go flying forward. The officer then proceeded to jump out of his car...jump on the tractor and start beating Mr. Grose about the head with his tazer...then proceded to taze him....then pulled out his stun gun and began using it on him.
Mr Grose has numerous burns and bruises. All the while an 8 year old boy was on the tractor beside Mr. Grose. I am still very confused on the Chief of Police of Glenrocks statement that his officers did no wrong. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! And to top it off several other officers and deputy sherrifs raced thru the parade route past hundreds of small children in the street picking up candy....because they felt this was an emergency to help their fellow officer beat up a 76 year old man who had done something wrong by driving 5 miles an hour on an antique tractor toward city park. "
copied from the article comments
<David Lynch’s Straight Story
Great little film. Everyone should see it.
I have been to Glenrock many a time and it is a really small town. These cops must be from LA or something. Public sentiment will drive them out of there. They will no longer be able to do their jobs and they and their families will be shunned at businesses and restaurants, as they should be.
Not a good move by the cops.
Apparently, they pulled in front of the tractor...causing the accident.
Yeah, the comments are a lot more informative than the article. One of them:
Glenrock Res wrote on Aug 5, 2009 1:16 PM:
" What's not pointed out clearly above is that the 76 yr old man was actually driving the tractor when he was tasered - he was not stopped! The senior citizens riding in the trailer behind the tractor were yelling at the cop to stop, yelling that the man had a bad heart and was hard of hearing. After the man's son arrived on the seen, he was subdued from attending to his dad by yet another officer, who told the son that he would put him in jail for intereference. Keep in mind that these two cops were "eff'ing" this and that the entire time towards this old man. Guess that senior citizen was pretty dangerous riding that 'ole tractor - not. "
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