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Showing Original Post only (View all)Cops taser 87yo woman while gardening with a knife. [View all]
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/georgia-cops-shock-elderly-woman-taser-using-knife-cut-dandelions/An 87-year-old woman was out cutting dandelions with a knife when an employee of a Boys and Girls club called the police, telling them she refused to leave.
Shes old so she cant get around too well, but, the employee said on the 911 recording. Looks like shes walking around looking for something, like, vegetation to cut down or something. Theres a bag, too.
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Officers arrived and responded to the situation by holding her at gunpoint, shocking her with a taser and keeping her in jail for hours, the Associated Press reports.
The departments police chief defended officers actions, claiming that given the situation, this was the least aggressive use of force.
Shes old so she cant get around too well, but, the employee said on the 911 recording. Looks like shes walking around looking for something, like, vegetation to cut down or something. Theres a bag, too.
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Officers arrived and responded to the situation by holding her at gunpoint, shocking her with a taser and keeping her in jail for hours, the Associated Press reports.
The departments police chief defended officers actions, claiming that given the situation, this was the least aggressive use of force.
Here's an even less aggressive use of force: One cop distracts her from the front by talking to her. Another cop ambushes her from behind, grabbing her wrist and wrestling the knife out of the hand of that frail 87yo woman.
Or how about an even less aggressive use of force: Instead of pointing your guns at the woman, how about pointing at the knife with your fingers and signalling her to put the knife away?
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Theres a very old man at the end of my road who I sometimes cut his grass...........
Old Vet
Aug 2018
#69
"She had a small kitchen knife and was cutting dandelions in a lot next to her house"
dalton99a
Aug 2018
#4
Thanks for posting this...After reading the above, it is even more obscene ..Why?
Stuart G
Aug 2018
#48
Don't know how they afford police dept,I know this:"It is a stupid police dept."
Stuart G
Aug 2018
#16
How about these grown men just learn to use their words? How about they use their brains ...
Hekate
Aug 2018
#21
Firing these cops is the ONLY solution. Too stupid to know or learn anything...
Stuart G
Aug 2018
#22
Question, could this event happen in England, France, Japan, Australia or other countries?
Stuart G
Aug 2018
#28
an even less aggressive response? do NOTHING, you assholes, you have got to be FUCKING
niyad
Aug 2018
#31
Now that I think about it, she was walking around with a knife and wouldn't leave...
C Moon
Aug 2018
#58
If you're in a wheelchair, sure. Otherwise, it's conjecture and supposition.
LanternWaste
Aug 2018
#66