Posted on 09/19/2007 8:57:35 AM PDT by Diamond
A sick old woman in a wheelchair was stun-gunned by police ten times over a period of three or four minutes until she died. One hit was sixteen seconds long. Another was twenty five seconds. Another one was thirteen seconds.
So they killed her.
Good plan.
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Have they discovered a racial angle yet?
How about going up a flight of stairs? Stairs are the naturally enemy of the wheelchair bound...
This being said, shocking her 9 times for a total of 160 seconds seems just a tad excessive, no?
In related news, a cop in Orem, Utah roughed up a 70-year old woman and arrested her for "resisting arrest" because her grass was brown. No, I'm not kidding.
Were there stairs available for them to use? Fact is, this lady brought the police to her house with her combative behavior and arming herself with weapons trying to cause injury or death to her sister. This would not have occurred, if they would not have initiated the scenario. Her intent was to hurt or kill somoneone.
Check post #12.
56 is elderly? My one brother is 52 and just had his first kid, my other brother is 55 works in a factory and hits the bars on the weekend with his friends. Maybe they could have had her put down some of the knives so she could get her ID out-if they saw she was 49 I guess it would be ok to tase her, but 52 would be wrong...or maybe 53...53-1/2?
After she puts down the knives to check her ID, she could then get an x-ray to check heart problems before tasering her. Ooops-then she'd have to put down the hammer-xray machines don't like metal.
imho, taser was an option. used too long though. usually they are 5-second bursts and stop automatically. but i have seen people laugh off taser hits. but sounds like the cops got a little trigger happy. should have gotten everyone out of the house, isolated the woman and called in SWAT (for lack of a better term) to contain and wrap her up.
Not really. There was no sister, the woman was schizophrenic and made that up. The police indeed stated that she was in a wheel chair when they tazered her. As for weilding two steak knives and a hammer, I'm wondering how many arms this woman had? As for her weight, she's fat, but 300 lbs? Can you guess her height and date of birth too from that picture?
I froze the video and counted the seconds she was electroshocked, as recorded on the police sheet. I couldn't see the entire sheet, but I counted at least 90 seconds. Where I couldn't make out the number, I just used two seconds. So in all probablility this woman was electroshocked for well over one minute and a half. I guess they were trying to bake her until she was well done.
I can see this being an episode of Reno911.
It’s just too stupid to believe. Were they afraid she would roll away faster than they could run? Or did she not stand and turn-around when ordered to do so?
I did, it was all wrong. Check post # 31.
Kind of makes the story a little different doesn't it? Sounds like to me she was a danger.
I really hope you're joking
phew! What a relief. To think the cops almost missed an opportunity to hurt her first. This has Reno911 written all over it.
I was responding to another comment, not commenting on this particular incident. Please read the post I was replying to so you can see that I never supported tasering an old woman in a wheelchair.
99.999999% of the time a person in a wheelchair, after checking them for weapons, is no threat to an officer or anyone else for that matter. There are exceptions to everything but I don’t see on that fits in this case.
Please take you preconceived notions of the police and project them on someone else if your not going to take the 15 seconds it requires to read my post and understand that what I typed, and what you want to believe I’m saying, are two completely different things.
I come from a family of law enforcement officers and have a background in law enforcement myself. My older brother is now retired from LE after 27 years and his best friend Sgt. Arthur W. Koch was killed by an armed wheelchair bound man in Fairlfield Ca in 1984. My brother and Art were really close and came to the PD from the CA Highway Patrol. Art conviced my brother to join him at the PD.
You can read a little about it here - http://www.camemorial.org/htmprev/koch84.htm
No I am not kidding. Too many people like to judge situations without being there to see what actually happened themself. Feel free to man up and go and disrm any man or woman that is wheelchair bound and armed. We will see how fast you can get killed.
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Don’t waste your life energy on these people You will never convince them that a person created the circumstances during which she died.
For some people the cops are always right. For some people they are always wrong.
You are right.
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