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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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Chatsworth officers threatened by an 87yr old woman who could barely walk...from a distance.
1 posted on 08/16/2018 4:58:27 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner; null and void
the woman should have complied even if she didn’t understand English.

If she could not understand them, how the hell would she know what they were telling her? Maybe thought they wanted some dandelions as well?

Actually, lucky for her she was not shot on the spot.

2 posted on 08/16/2018 5:08:03 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: Mariner

Buy a bag of salad at Kroger next time.


3 posted on 08/16/2018 5:08:42 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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“See’s seeing us, she hears what we’re saying, she may not know what we’re saying, but we’re telling her to stop and there’s a Taser pointed at her and there’s a firearm that’s unholstered there. Most people, that’s kind of the universal command for stop,” he said.

Wow. So most people know what a Taser looks like? I don't. Most people know that an unholstered firearm means "Stop"? First I've heard of it. Most people who do not understand English understand English?

4 posted on 08/16/2018 5:10:00 PM PDT by TChad
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To: TChad

It’s like they thought a 87yr old woman would understand they thought she was a threat to them.

Shameful.


5 posted on 08/16/2018 5:12:05 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
The real question is what is a muslim geriatric doing walking around Atlanta? How did she get here and how is she scamming our social services system? Probably should have lit her up again for good measure.
 
6 posted on 08/16/2018 5:13:52 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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“See’s seeing us, she hears what we’re saying, she may not know what we’re saying, but we’re telling her to stop and there’s a Taser pointed at her and there’s a firearm that’s unholstered there. Most people, that’s kind of the universal command for stop,” he said. He added that using a Taser was the “minimum force.”

The woman was 87 and there were only three police officers. Of course they were scared.

And they wanted to go home to their families.

7 posted on 08/16/2018 5:14:56 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Midwesterner53

“Buy a bag of salad at Kroger next time”.

You must think she deserved to be tasered.


8 posted on 08/16/2018 5:17:15 PM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Mariner

The caller, who described the woman as wearing a “Muslim hat-looking thing,”

That “Muslim hat-looking thing” on her head is a babushka. My Grandma use to wear one to keep the sun off her head.


9 posted on 08/16/2018 5:18:24 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

You’re an ass


10 posted on 08/16/2018 5:20:59 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: laplata

Obviously they do, and so does poster Governor Dinwiddie above who I am sure would be squealing like a stuck pig if it were his family member who was assaulted by police

By Your words shall you be known

Maybe they should be tased so they can find out how fun it is, especially at that age. Lucky for the cops she did not have a heart attack. Then I am pretty sure they would chime in and say she got what she deserved

Sick


11 posted on 08/16/2018 5:23:27 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 100American

I’ve traveled to probably 20 countries. the word NO is universal. She knew they wanted her to stop. No sympathy


12 posted on 08/16/2018 5:28:58 PM PDT by Josa
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To: Midwesterner53

Bet her family thinks they’ve hit the lawsuit jackpot. For the right jackpot, I’d be willing to be tapered.


13 posted on 08/16/2018 5:32:18 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: Josa

Chicken $hit cops!!!


14 posted on 08/16/2018 5:36:16 PM PDT by Taylor42 (Autism - the ignored epidemic)
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To: Midwesterner53

Buy a bag of salad at Kroger next time.....YA nut. It’s from Mexico. No bags of salad ever! Never.


15 posted on 08/16/2018 5:36:34 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Mariner

Martha Al-Bishara, no speak English?

Why not?


16 posted on 08/16/2018 5:37:24 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Mariner

I hope she and her family sue them personally, then subsequently own everything they have.


17 posted on 08/16/2018 5:38:42 PM 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: bigdaddy45

Why is he an ass? Questioning the influx of geriatric immigrants from third world countries who have never contributed Dime One into our system, when you know they are getting every conceivable entitlement benefit under the sun is not out of bounds.


18 posted on 08/16/2018 5:39:41 PM PDT by Scarpetta (The election of Donald Trump is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.)
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To: TChad

Hint: If a cop is pointing anything at you drop the knife.

By the way, a Taser pretty much looks like a gun.

Just for you: An unholstered firearm is really code for “rush towards me and show me that knife”.


19 posted on 08/16/2018 5:44:46 PM PDT by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: Just kidding.)
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To: Mariner
Bishara

Not an unknown name in Muslim terror.

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan

Charles Bishara Bishop - terrorist who flew a plane into a high rise office tower. (NOTE: Current media accounts have washed the Islamic name out of the story; the Fake News Press now call him "Charles J. Bishop" to hide the family history.

20 posted on 08/16/2018 5:46:41 PM PDT by PAR35
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