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Police use taser on deaf woman
KIRO ^ | 8/5/12 | Chris Halsne

Posted on 08/06/2012 6:18:41 PM PDT by mom4kittys

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To: dragnet2
Here's the paragraph from the story:

She says she went over and talked to officers, whom she says admitted confusion, claiming they thought White was coming at them, fist clenched, not running to them for help.

So, from that it looks like the cops thought she was going to attack them.

Some poster said this story is over a month old and why now is it in Seattle news?

41 posted on 08/06/2012 8:34:41 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: SkyDancer
the cops thought she was going to attack them.

Yeah, I've heard that many times...About peoples pets too.

Two fully trained, fully armed male cops and an unarmed woman waving her arms or making a fist...Electrocute the hag!

She's lucky she wasn't using cane to walk...She'd be in the morgue.

My advise is to avoid calling the local government for help, it at all possible. No joke.

42 posted on 08/06/2012 8:53:22 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion or tools of deceit)
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To: treetopsandroofs
Please let’s not be too hasty with adjudication of anything.

Look at the article and the woman, and then let’s ask ourselves why we’re just hearing about this now, a month later?


That's just what the cops want you to do--give them every break you will over the pain and rights of a deaf woman.

Sucker.
43 posted on 08/06/2012 9:13:45 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: nvscanman
This story, if accurate, and I have no reason to believe it isn’t is beyond words. What can one say in regards to this level of abuse that would be cogent or meaningful.

At its most fundamental level, police do not work for the citizenry; they work for government; local, state or feral (spelling intentional). As a group, they protect themselves first and foremost. As a group, they protect those who hired them and sign their paychecks next.

Where it still exists, "to serve and to protect" needs to be painted over.

Yes, I know there are still some good ones, but you can't tell the difference by looking.

44 posted on 08/06/2012 9:19:22 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: dragnet2

Anybody or any animal approaching a cop in any manner other than in submission will be shot. Period.


45 posted on 08/06/2012 9:19:22 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: SkyDancer
Anybody or any animal approaching a cop in any manner other than in submission will be shot.

So tell me, why do they carry batons and pepper spray etc?

You're comments are a joke. No offense.

Why don't cops shoot everyone at those at violent protests, throwing crap at them, as they approach in a threatening manner?

Too funny!

You should stay away from crime threads.

46 posted on 08/06/2012 9:34:00 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion or tools of deceit)
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To: vette6387

“Yeah, in an earlier post on police misconduct someone said that we need to separate the decent cops from the scum.”

Comes from poor training. Seems in some cities anyone can slip through the police academy these days regardless of how poorly qualified they are.


47 posted on 08/06/2012 9:37:10 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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To: dragnet2

Sarcasm.


48 posted on 08/06/2012 10:00:14 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: SkyDancer

Oh, my apologies...Ya just never know anymore.


49 posted on 08/06/2012 10:17:53 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion or tools of deceit)
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To: ScottfromNJ

It’s not what you know but who you know. You can have the IQ of a gnat and still get a city or county job if you know the right people. That doesn’t have any effect on the quality of the product or service though ( /sarc)


50 posted on 08/06/2012 10:29:00 PM PDT by virgil
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To: mom4kittys

TWO PHYSICALLY FIT COPS HAD NO FRICKIN REASON TO TASER ONE WOMAN WITH HER EMPTY HANDS IN THE AIR, DEAF OR NOT.

NO EXCUSES. SEND A MESSAGE, PUNISH THE BASTARDS AND MAKE SURE THEY NEVER WORK AS POLICE AGAIN!


51 posted on 08/07/2012 5:27:28 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: dragnet2

Actually my fault for not putting that </sarc at the end.


52 posted on 08/07/2012 6:15:48 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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To: allmendream

“a gun is better than 911”

If that isn’t a t-shirt or bumper sticker slogan, it needs to be.


53 posted on 08/07/2012 8:12:27 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: mom4kittys

A criminal beating up a deaf woman? We can’t have THAT!

The criminal isn’t part of a *union*.

Now, a *union* conducted beating, *that’s* the quality of beating which should be meted out!

< /sarc >


54 posted on 08/07/2012 8:15:14 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

Thanks! If someone breaks in to my home THEY had better call 911.


55 posted on 08/07/2012 8:15:51 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: treetopsandroofs

How about let’s ask why the criminal who first assaulted her got off scott free and this woman’s constitutional rights were violated?


56 posted on 08/07/2012 8:25:59 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: treetopsandroofs

“Witnesses said White began bleeding heavily from her knuckles and the right side of her face swelled up immediately after she hit the pavement following the Taser jolt. “

Gee, did the witnesses make it up too?

Are you done expressing your outrage that anyone DARED question the Most Holy and Right Reverend Officers?


57 posted on 08/07/2012 8:43:08 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: treetopsandroofs

I find it very telling that you’re more interested in condemning the activity of the media—who did not taze a deaf woman, than you are in condemning those officers, who did taze a deaf woman.

Indeed. How DARE the media EVER speak against King Barry’s Knights of the Realm?


58 posted on 08/07/2012 8:52:46 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: treetopsandroofs

Conservatives don’t WANT skin color to be an issue raised by the media.

It is a liberal desire to expect the media to make skin color an issue.


59 posted on 08/07/2012 8:56:42 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

Whatever. You know best, I’m sure.
Judge me as you wish, I don’t give an Obama.


60 posted on 08/08/2012 5:17:44 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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