Posted on 09/24/2020 7:35:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Alecia Kitts traveled to see her son play football in Logan, Ohio. Footage shows her seated with her family at the proper social distance from other families without a mask on. A police officer approached her and arrested her. After she struggled and resisted arrest, the officer in the video tased her into submission in front of children.
One witness, according to the Ohio Star, said that a child sitting on the metal bleachers got shocked when the charge traveled through the metal.
According to Tiffany Kennedy, the woman who shot the above video, Kitts had not been warned for not wearing a mask prior to the officer approaching her. Kennedy also said that Kitts has asthma and that’s why she was not wearing a mask.
“There is no reason to tase someone and arrest them for not wearing a mask,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy also pointed out the female officer who is shown running toward the Logan officer and Kitts at the end of the video was not wearing a mask – pulling one out of her pocket as she was in pursuit.
“Alecia’s mom said that when the officer tased her, the current went through the bleachers and zapped the kid sitting there too.”
Kitts appears to be socially distanced from others in the crowd and sitting with her family. “There were only 25 or 30 fans from our town on our side,” said Kennedy.
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She was easily 6 feet away from others with the exception of her family. We are told mask up, or keep distance. She was keeping distance.
‘Required by law’ and ‘facility policy’ are two very different things.
It’s not difficult to understand police being called to enforce a law and subsequently arresting someone for violating the law. If the lawbreaker resists, well, as you said, that’s a stupid game and there will be a prize for that.
What is not easy to understand is how the police can be used as bullies to enforce a ‘facility policy’ beyond forcing a non-compliant person to leave the facility.
Arresting them for charges of trespassing would be obvious and reasonable at that point, but arresting and charging them for breaking a policy that is not a law is unreasonable.
When told to leave - for trespassing - she should have left without scuffling with the police as she was going to lose. Hopefully, she will decide to pursue this in the courts.
Peach
That being said, this was bullshit, outside sitting with family that don't where masks in the home when together and social distancing from others? What a bunch of malarkey, especially given that masks re only effective on those infected and do nothing to stop airborne viruses that are so much smaller than the weave as to be laughable.
Is there anything more asinine or ridiculous than those clowns that wear a mask when they are lone driving in their car? This foolishness has to be stopped and the country returned to freedom. Oh and shoot the friggin rioters and put an end to that too!
I agree with you about the masks. And don’t get that she also has asthma, and therefore most likely a medical excuse from wearing a mask in any case. Did these idiots ask for that? Guess not, or they wouldn’t have tazed the poor lady (and a bench full of kids).
I’m usually pro-cop, but in this case I’d fire these morons tomorrow, or make them clean toilets in the police station for the next 50 years. It’s about all they’re good for.
Hmm, when I was a little kid they took us down the road to Church every Wednesday in my church school from the age of 6. We were expected not to be idiots running into the road without having to hold onto ropes.
Kids are literally infantalised these days.
Bye Karen!
‘but if they are required by law or by facility policy, you are in violation if you don’t comply’
Kim Jong-un would love you as a citizen...the mask mandate states that masks be worn ‘outdoors if a six foot margin to unrelated individuals cannot be maintained...’
looks to me like she was in compliance with the $#%ing mask mandate as it is stated by law; but because idiots think that viral droplets from a person that is at a distance who is not visibly coughing or sneezing in the outside air is going to infect them with a deadly disease, we have nonsense like this going on...
And he’s deadweight for President Trump as he tries to win Ohio in November.
‘Perfectly stated!’
until they come for you, right...?
Do you suggest that people resist arrest when the police are arresting them?
‘Do you suggest that people resist arrest when the police are arresting them?’
I suggest that cops and other authorities not harass people who are not engaging in lawbreaking...or is that too radical a principle for you to comprehend...?
mask laws almost universally state that outdoors, if ‘social distancing’ is maintained, then by definition, masks are unnecessary; it is my contention that someone adhering to a mandated policy, as this woman clearly was, not be apprehended and violated by law enforcement officers...apparently you approve of arbitrary and despotic behavior on the part of our ‘officials...’
I don’t like mandatory masks, but if they are required by law or by facility policy, you are in violation if you don’t comply and it is left to police to enforce.
Where did they play indoor football?
Logan is in Hocking County, presently Level one , Yellow.
The mandatory masking comes when a county is designated level three, RED!
Thank you.
I take it you have never called police to "tresspass" somone, as they call it here.
I will give the benefit of the doubt to the police that they acted appropriately and the woman responded inappropriately, firstly, to the point that they decided to arrest her, and secondly, to the point that they tazed her for resisting arrest for 2 minutes.
Anyone can file a lawsuit for pretty much anything. She was in violation of law and/or policy and refused to remedy that appropriately when given the opportunity.
Maybe there is more to it that we don't know and we will hear more about it.
I presume that she was given the opportunity to comply or leave that she she refused to do either. I think that would, in fact, be standard procedure for that situation.
"Arresting them for charges of trespassing would be obvious and reasonable at that point, but arresting and charging them for breaking a policy that is not a law is unreasonable."
I assume she was originally placed under arrested for either an actual law (Here in NC law enforcement has the authority to arrest for violation of Governor's order) or for trespassing. I agree police do not have the authority to arrest for violation of local policy.
"When told to leave - for trespassing - she should have left without scuffling with the police as she was going to lose."
Agreed.
That's a pretty stupid ad hominem. Being so entitled that she thinks she does not need to respect other's rights to define the policy at their facility is a contrast to being a courteous person who respects private property rights, not a contrast to being an adoring subject of Kim Jong-Un.
"looks to me like she was in compliance with the $#%ing mask mandate as it is stated by law; but because idiots think that viral droplets from a person that is at a distance who is not visibly coughing or sneezing in the outside air is going to infect them with a deadly disease, we have nonsense like this going on..."
I don't know what the law is there, but I heard on another report regarding the local policy being posted. Without regard to how ill-conceived the policy was, and I don't necessarily disagree with you on that point, she was not in compliance with the posted policy, and if the police just arrested her without giving her the option to either remedy her non-compliance or leave, then I would agree they were out of line... but I doubt that is what occured.
Maybe there is more to it that we don't know.
I expect that is pretty much what happened, and she refused to either comply with the policy or leave. If they never gave her the option to do both of those things before arresting her, I agree the police were out of line... but I expect they did, in fact, give her those options and she chose the stupid game instead of one of the two more reasonable responses.
There were obviously witnesses sympathetic to her present, so it will likely be settled in court one way or another.
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