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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Learn English. Otherwise stay put in your own country
I happen to agree. You don’t want to learn English stay in your own country
No the woman is muslim. You want to come here learn English. Otherwise stay in your own country
So folks who don’t speak English are welcome in your neighborhood?
Borders language culture
I read the article and saw nothing about her being from Syria..
Jack wagon comes to mind..
Your name for mussies and others who come to the US and don’t bother to learn the language
She might well have been thinking, "Stop? What is that? Are they calling somebody's name? What? My name isn't 'Stop'."
She's 87. It is very easy for older people to be simply confused, or even petrified with fear.
How do you know that at 87, she can even hear at all?
I've got significant age-related hearing loss and I'm only 66.
Good thing she didn't have a little-bitty 5 pound dog. They'd probably both be dead 'cuz the three armed officers had a credible fear for their lives.
Incredible, Josa.
Tagline.
I hope you end up with Somali neighbors
You don’t want to learn English stay in your own country
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How long has she been in the United States?
You just made all that up about her.
And feel perfectly self-satisfied in doing so.
If it were your grandmother and she couldn’t speak English then what the hell is wrong with you?
Why do you want mussies who don’t speak English in our country?
Yep.
Oh yeah because they would have known this mussie immigrants language
If you aren’t going to learn English stay in your own country
Well your governor made a point of saying America has never been great. Guess your in that category too
Why do you want immigrants in the US who don’t speak the language?
You don't know she's a Muslim.
First name Martha, I'm betting Maronite or Chaldean (Lebanese or Iraqi) Christian.
But we didn't know that, either.
All they knew was "O NOES, super-frail super-old lady with a knife and some dandelions! I couldn't be she's picking dandelions, no. No way. So, probable hypothesis, she's Jeffrey Dahmer."
Stop being an jerk. You don’t have to be one, you can be a human being, I assume. At least I’m sure you are when you aren’t hiding being a keyboard and the stakes are a little higher. But then again, maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re a miserable old fart that everyone hates and this is why.
Some of us show initiative to try to get more than the mainstream propaganda. Others wait to be issued their approved news.
In addition to being a Syrian who only speaks Arabic (which apparently didn’t cause any problems with her getting US citizenship), she also claims to be a Christian.
Even with all that information, I’ll stick with my premise. “It’s stupid to assume an Al-Bishara isn’t a Muzzi”. Even if she turns out to be one.
I don’t care
It used to be you had to learn some to come in
Don’t move to a country if you can’t speak the language enough to get around
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