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Police Chief Defends Use Of Taser On Elderly Woman Cutting Flowers
Huffpost via Yahoo ^ | August 16th, 2018 | Nina Golgowski

Posted on 08/16/2018 4:58:27 PM PDT by Mariner

A Georgia police chief is defending the use of a Taser on an 87-year-old grandmother after she was seen walking around with a knife near her home, which her family says was for cutting dandelions for a salad.

Martha Al-Bishara, 87, whose family says she doesn’t speak English, was gathering the flowers Friday on property belonging to a Boys and Girls Club organization in Chatsworth when a staff member called 911 on her for trespassing, the Dalton Daily Citizen-News reported, citing the police report.

“She’s old so she can’t get around too well, but looks like she’s walking around looking for something, like vegetation to cut down or something. There’s a bag too,” the caller told police in the 911 recording. The caller, who described the woman as wearing a “Muslim hat-looking thing,” said there were no children outside and that the woman said she didn’t speak English.

The woman's family has said that she was cutting dandelions for a salad when police used a Taser on her.

Three Chatsworth police officers reportedly responded to the scene about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta and ordered Al-Bishara to drop her knife. When she didn’t follow their command, they used a Taser on her.

Police Chief Josh Etheridge, speaking to the Daily Citizen-News, defended his officers’ actions, saying the woman should have complied even if she didn’t understand English.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: shameful; taser; weird
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To: editor-surveyor; PAR35

“She could have brought the republic down...”

Not with PAR35 on the job.


101 posted on 08/16/2018 9:27:32 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Nifster

“Why do you want mussies who don’t speak English in our country?”

You have no idea how dumb you look.


102 posted on 08/16/2018 9:30:51 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Pirate Ragnar

“but what would YOU suggest when she didn’t put the knife down?”

She’s 87.

I would approach and take the knife out of her hand.


103 posted on 08/16/2018 9:33:28 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

How do you know she’s Christian?


104 posted on 08/16/2018 11:19:04 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

If you want to live in America learn English. If not stay in your own country


105 posted on 08/16/2018 11:20:16 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Flick Lives

What year did he come?


106 posted on 08/16/2018 11:20:58 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: laplata

You have a good night knowing that oeople come here and refuse to assimilate


107 posted on 08/16/2018 11:21:49 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 100American

She lives here


108 posted on 08/16/2018 11:22:43 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Mariner

I don’t want people to come to America who refuse to assimilate

That ain’t dumb.

Well just house a bunch of nonEnglish speaking folks in your house. Good luck in case the vetting wasn’t good


109 posted on 08/16/2018 11:24:22 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: jeffersondem

Lol


110 posted on 08/16/2018 11:25:38 PM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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To: Nifster

She’s wearing a cross in a photo with her granddaughter or great granddaughter

That’s risky for a Muzz as a fashion accessory don’t you think?


111 posted on 08/16/2018 11:32:23 PM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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To: Nifster

What year did he come?

His parents sent him to America in 1919 at the start of the Bolshevik War. He was 14.


112 posted on 08/17/2018 12:58:04 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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To: laplata

Yeah, I saw it. There’s a few clowns on here saying it was the right thing to do.


113 posted on 08/17/2018 2:15:26 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Flick Lives

He may not have felt comfortable speaking English but if he ran a successful business he had to understand it

My grandfather came as a teenager. He became a hot lead linotypust


114 posted on 08/17/2018 3:02:56 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Scarpetta
"Probably should have lit her up again for good measure"


"Why is he an ass?


Stupid.
115 posted on 08/17/2018 3:32:22 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot ("The days of being a keyboard commando are over. It's time to get some bloody knuckles." -Drew68)
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To: Midwesterner53

Always at least one asshat chiming in.


116 posted on 08/17/2018 3:41:28 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: Nifster

You’re disgusting.


117 posted on 08/17/2018 4:18:34 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: Nifster

He may not have felt comfortable speaking English but if he ran a successful business he had to understand it

It wasn’t he didn’t feel comfortable speaking English, he didn’t know English. He ran a grocery in a Polish neighborhood.


118 posted on 08/17/2018 4:40:32 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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To: Nifster

It used to be you had to learn some to come in

You’ve been proven wrong, but you keep on keeping on.


119 posted on 08/17/2018 4:43:51 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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To: Nifster
“Learn English. Otherwise stay put in your own country”

I have never been a police officer, but I have visited in several nursing homes recently.

I can't begin to image the thought process of the three police officers who decided the best course of action was to taser a feeble 87 year old woman. Yes, I read she was cutting flowers.

If these officers reflect current police doctrine, it does not bode well for our Republic.

120 posted on 08/17/2018 5:24:33 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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