Posted on 12/08/2005 11:50:06 PM PST by vrwc0915
Police Hit Grandmother With Taser Gun Five Times Officer Said Woman Resisted Arrest
POSTED: 4:47 pm EST December 7, 2005 UPDATED: 9:52 pm EST December 7, 2005
FRANKLIN, Ohio -- A 68-year-old woman was hit with a Taser gun by police in an Ohio city five times.
The police officer in the case, a lieutenant with the Franklin Police Department, claims he is the victim in the case, NBC 4's Mike Bowersock reported.
Beverly Kidwell, 68, was in the waiting room of the police department in suburban Dayton when the incident occurred.
According to police, she came into the station to be arrested for hitting her granddaughter.
Kidwell said she waited a long time in the lobby and, when she got up to leave, the officer hit her with the Taser gun.
"I don't know if he thought I was going to get up and leave or what, but he pulled his gun. I thought it was a gun. I'd never seen a Taser gun in my life and I thought, 'Oh my God. He's going to shoot me. He's going to kill me," Kidwell said.
The police lieutenant said she was resisting arrest, Bowersock reported.
Kidwell said she was in a fetal position and unable to move when the lieutenant ordered her to get up and continued to shock her.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the 50,000 volts.
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An officer tases a great grandma, and a surveillance camera catches the whole thing on tape.
Franklin Police Lieutenant, Wayne Bowling used his taser on 68-year-old Beverly Kidwell while she was in a police waiting room. Kidwell said, "I felt this excruciating pain, and I was immobilized. And, you can't think or move. And, I fell to the floor and I crumbled up in the fetal position."
Then, the 68-year-old great grandmother says Lieutentant Bowling ordered her to roll over and stand up. She said, "I thought he is going to kill me, and then the next thing, he shot me again. And he kept saying all the time, get up get up, and I couldn't. It paralyzes your body."
Finally, after taking five jolts, Kidwell was rushed to the hospital. She says she's still under a doctor's care.
Attorney, Rick Schulte filed a federal civil rights violation lawsuit against both the city of Franklin and Lieutenant Bowling. Schulte said, "Even if he thought Beverly Kidwell had killed someone, there are other means for him to protect himself and society to restrain her. This simply should not have taken place."
The Franklin Police Department won't say why the lieutenant used his taser. But, Kidwell says she was in the police station's lobby, waiting for an officer to talk about a family fight that she had with her adult granddaughter.
She says she waited a long time, and when she finally decided to leave, the lieutenant came out and insisted that she stay. Then, Kidwell says he started firing his taser.
However, according to the police report, Beverly Kidwell hit her granddaughter, and she was at the police station to get arrested. Lieutentant Bowling claims Kidwell resisted arrested, and the lieutentant is even listed as a victim on the report.
We're told both sides are gearing up for a trial
Damn. She sure looks like a danger to society. Maybe "stop!" would have been a bit more appropriate, especially if he raised his voice ?
But she sounds like a violent offender anyway. Hitting her granddaughter ? Man. What's the world comin' to ? This whole thing sounds like a total mess.
Is the actual video available anywhere?
The jackboot lickers won't be long in coming, telling you that the officer feared for his life, and would you rather he wait for granny to reach in her purse to grab an uzi, and September 11th changed everything etc, etc.
So much for Grandma getting run over by a reindeer! Grandma got knocked over by a Tazer! hehehehe.
I think the cop overreacted, he should have knocked grandma over with a pistolwhip! /sarc :)
But really, i'm sure the cop just set himself up for some discipline, cops are becoming tazer happy. I'm waiting for someone to come up with a thin shirt you can wear to withstand tazer voltages.
He should have called for backup (Isn't he in a cop station?) and detain her before tazing her.
I wonder if the grandaughter is a scumbag who is driving grandma to insanity or grandma is a serious beotch?
Heh... after checking your other posts I have determined that you are a libertarian. And you use the phrase "jackboot licker" a lot.
This "cop" needs to be legally executed.
Hey I completely agree. Unless she had a weapon and was gonna poke someone to death with a knitting needle, I cannot possibly justify tazering the woman. For cryin' out loud, she looks like she's from the box of cheerios or something.
Yes.
And you use the phrase "jackboot licker" a lot.
Uh, no. That didn't seem right to me. Still, I thought, maybe I just hadn't noticed so after you posted that, I went through two pages of my comments, and this was the only time I used it (I was just skimming; maybe I missed something). Still I don't know what else to call someone who would defend the tasering of a 68 year old woman by an officer who doesn't exactly resemble Pee Wee Herman. Which some people inevitably will.
And by "a lot," I mean "one other time."
And is there video available of this incident? I crave evidence.
Searching as we speak.
Bingo! Unfortunately it's not very good video. Click the words "surveillancevideo."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/08/earlyshow/main1108447.shtml
Another interesting taser misuse story. Cop tases partner because she wouldn't stop for a soda. No, really.
http://www.nbc5.com/news/5490762/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=1167317&dppid=65172
Exactly. I thought the post with clip of the woman, also in Ohio, yesterday where the police pull here out of view of the tape and claim she is resisting and kept tasing her was bad. This one sounds worse.
Are you talking about the Jennifer Marshall case?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536583/posts
Ah, well. Thanks!
How about legally tased? About five times. Hit him as he's laying on the floor and watch him roll and hit him again because he's unable to stand up immediately when commanded to do so. Works for me.
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