Posted on 08/08/2013 7:40:19 AM PDT by dennisw
John Wrana was being 'involuntarily' committed for medical treatment Brandished his cane and a shoehorn and police were called to care home
A 95-year-old world War II veteran died after being Tasered and hit with bean bag rounds by police for threatening care home staff - but his family insist he was killed unnecessarily.
Police say that John Wrana, who lived in a Chicago assisting living home, was brandishing his cane, a metal shoehorn and a knife before officers shocked him and hit him with bean bag rounds.
The senior citizen had been reported to authorities because he was being 'involuntarily' committed for medical treatment by staff at the Victory Centre, the Chicago Tribune reported.
He was behaving in 'combative' manner, by threatening staff with his cane and a shoehorn. Wrana was reportedly scheduled to undergo a risky surgery, and was apparently afraid to end up on life support.
When police arrived at Park Forest at around 8.45pm, they said he was ordered to surrender, but he refused to and continued to berate staff and threaten them.
Officers claim he then picked up a 6-inch knife, but his family's attorney alleges that care home staff did not see him do this, The Blaze reported.
He was then shocked by a Taser, hit with rounds of bean bag ammunition, and was taken into custody and then to hospital.
Staff claimed that he was sitting in a chair during the row, suggesting that the force used by authorities might not have been warranted, according to The Blaze.
The Chicago Tribune reported that Mr Wrana was conscious when he was taken to St. James Hospital and Health Centers in Chicago Heights.
But he was then moved to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died at about 2.30am.
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The article the other day where cops in Ohio shot like 140 freaking rounds at the unarmed couple.
Was just beyond belief...
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Dear Diary, Today was great! Sun shining, birds singing, and I killed a 95 year old guy for “brandishing” a cane.
“Do I really need the sarc/ for that?”
Nah...the whole event is a sarcasm. What possible threat could an old guy like that be if he had a hundred knives and a bazooka besides?
We have a winner. You get what you pay for.
They had to kill him in order to make him get better.
full disclosure....I could NEVER be a cop.
I would absolutely suck at that job.
So I admire those who can do it well.
I would never make it thru my first domestic call.
“You are BOTH too STUPID to LIVE!!!!!”
95? 95! effin cops. Maybe they should have called in the Marines.
Yeah, he should have been jailed for not having the procedure the center wanted him to. That's got to be a major felony. And the sooner they stop with that "greatest generation" crap and quit sucking up resources, the better off we'll all be, right?
What I don’t understand is why the PD didn’t deploy a full-on SWAT team, complete with dogs, tank and RPG’s?
(Please detect sarc)
Policemen used to be ok, you had good ones and bad ones, but good or bad they were human beings, now they are just like a bunch of police state mentality programed robots.
. At that point you’re almost trolling for idiots.
The poor man. No civilized country would tolerate this.
full disclosure....I could NEVER be a cop.
I would absolutely suck at that job.
Surely they are not paying me to come in and murder them.
suicide by cop, the old guy wanted to go out fighting, he did.
Hell of a way to go. The poor guy survived The Great Depression and WW2 only to die like a dog at the hands of some thugs with a badge. My wife is a nurses aide at our local hospital and has to deal with elderly people who are frequently combative because they are either suffering dementia or Alzhimers or are just scared. Most of the time the family isn’t around to help, not everyone can be with a loved one every minute, so the staff has to deal with the person but there are other ways to deal with elderly people without having to resort to this.
My oldest brother was a 2nd. Lieutenant 5th. Marines, 3rd. Battalion ‘77-80. My late-father-in-law was 4th. Marines. Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima.
that though went through my mind and how about the staff that was scared of him? Were they minorities or foreigners devoid of sympathy or understanding of an old white guy 95 years old?
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