Reply #43: Don't you remember

[tblue37]

the deaf, blind 71-year-old woman who was wrestled to the ground by the cops and pepper-sprayed so violently in the face that her false eyeball fell out of her head? Then, when her 94-year-old mother brought out a 2-qt Tupperware container full of water to wash the eyeball, the cops slammed her against the wall because, as they claimed, they thought the 94-year-old she might use the water as a weapon.

Why was the 71-year-old taken down in the first place? Well, that deaf old lady didn't listen when the cops told her to stop walking toward an old wagon she was trying to retrieve.

I am severely hearing-impaired. I suppose I deserve to be Tasered for it, too.

I can't believe there are people who will defend such abuse of power and call our complaints about it "whining." No, the cops should not go back to using guns. The old lady didn't need to be shot, either.

Frankly, I don't believe she swung at the cop. I believe that is an after-the-fact excuse for having abused her, just like the idea that the 94-year-old woman in Oregon might have used two quarts of water as a dangerous weapon against two burly male cops.

But even if she did, she was 75 years old. If she needed to be "handled," nursing home attendants are trained to do just that, using the Mandt hoold, not using Tasers or guns. They don't have Tasers to use in nursing homes, and yet they manage to handle all those old folks without shooting them, even when the old folks get upset and physical.

When she was an undergraduate, my daughter worked as an aide in a home for developmentally disabled adults. She was trained to manage her clients when they got angry and violent, and somehow managed to do that without a Taser or a gun.

Why the hell can't out police do that? Maybe because they consider civilians to be undermensch and deserving of whatever the cops dish out, unless they obey immediately any command given by anyone in authority?

Here is a link to the story about the Tasering of the deaf, blind old lady and her mother:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf?/base/news/1082807738251705.xml