Posted on 06/02/2009 7:20:45 AM PDT by BGHater
A 72-year-old woman is pulled over for speeding, then tasered and sent to jail. Kathryn Winkfein says she drives to Austin about twice a month to do her shopping. But on a Monday afternoon, a Travis County Constable deputy pulled her over, on her way back to Granite Schoals.
"Due to being a construction zone, and workers being present," Pct. 3 Constable Richard McCain said, "it was 45, she was doing 60."
Winkfein admits she was speeding in the dangerous strip of Highway 71 and Bee Creek.
"He explained to her," Constable McCain said, "sign the ticket stub, it's not an admission of guilt. It's a promise to appear in court. She didn't want to. She said take me to jail."
That's when the officer says Winkfein exited her vehicle and didn't cooperate.
"She refused to get off the side of the road, he said to her, Ma'am, you're under arrest. She used profanity," the Constable said. He adds she got violent, and the officer used a taser on her.
Winkfein showed FOX 7 her taser scars.
"Here and here. Two places, side by side. It's unreal. It's like an electric shock," she said.
A shock Winkfein believes she didn't deserve.
"I wasn't argumentative, I was not combative. This is a lie. All of this is a lie, pulled away from him I did not," she said, reading the arrest affidavit.
The great-grandmother was taken to the Travis County Jail, where she was booked for resisting arrest and detention. She was released shortly after. Now, Winkfein has hired attorneys to protect her rights.
When asked if it was appropriate for the arresting officer to have used a taser, Constable McCain answered yes.
bttt
The whole incident should be on a dash cam of some sort I would think.
More to the story...Where’s the dash cam footage?
“All of this is a lie, pulled away from him I did not,” she said.
Grandma Yoda?
No offense but some of these old people, especially women, seem to think they can talk to a cop any way they want and nothing will happen to them because they’re old. I’m not sure it happened in this case, but it does seem to be a theme I’ve seen before.
My late MIL was less than saintly and brandished her Bible in very unChristian ways.
I feel sorry for the police officer. That was a no-win situation but it sounds like he enforced the law.
And I can't freaking wait.
Right. Clearly he should have used deadly force.
I guess liberal journalists expect everyone to live up to their stereotypes.
I was thinking the same thing. She must have given the officer a dose of lip.
Sounds like she was in the wrong, but I have to wonder about constables sometimes.
Some old women are mean as snakes, and a few will admit it. They endanger everyone on the road, or in this case, those repairing the road, too. It may soon be time to take her keys away.
That would certainly teach her
Seems she is channeling Yoda here...
Yep don’t show the proper respect and you must receive an education!
I want the dash cam....I have a hard time imagining a officer that can not control an older lady without using a taser.
That might be the case.
However, I have a rule of siding with civilians before the Gov’t; until I learn more.
And some older women are saints, what happened to innocent until proven guilty
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