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Posted on 09/02/2009 8:21:57 PM PDT by Chet 99
GLENROCK, Wyo. — Bud Grose seemed like the last person who should attract the attention of police when the 76-year-old retiree hopped on his antique tractor and rumbled through the annual parade in this small Wyoming town.
But what was supposed to be a day of fun at an end-of-summer festival ended abruptly when police shot Grose with a Taser in a dispute about where to end the parade route.
The incident nearly incited a riot as outraged neighbors rushed to his defense. Now residents of this tight-knit town of 2,400 are seething over what they see as police brutality, and town officials are scrambling to ease the tension.
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It is important to know the community you are policing. That or he asked for a jump start and they misunderstood him.
Coming to a town near you.
He is lucky to survive 50 thousand volt shock. I wonder how many people have been electrocuted by taser
Waiting for the usual FR badge lickers who always defend the pig no matter what ...
From what I read here, the man in question completely ignored the police from start to finish.
Either he feels he's "special" or he's suffering from some kind of dementia.
Waiting for the usual FR badge lickers who always defend the pig no matter what ...””
I don’t think the cop was correct with what we know in this story.
Wyoming has a number of communities where everyone knows everyone else.
Was this a new cop in town?
Hard to believe he thought he had to taze a 76 y/o in a parade.
I have traveled some in Wyoming, and had nothing but positive experiences.
Grose wanted to head directly to the town park for a tractor pull like in previous years. But the police department had a different plan, which apparently was not communicated to the tractor drivers.
And just whose town is it anyway?
I wonder how new the rest of the police force is, like the guy who did the tasing.
You don’t mess with small towns when you’re the outsider.
He has a LOT to learn.
While I am no longer in the People’s Republic of the USA,
I did notice a rapid change of police, especially in suburban
and rural areas, even in my home area of west Tennessee.
Cops started morphing from good old boys, out to help you, into jack booted thugs.
I owned an old school building in a town of 350 people.
In the 70s, they had a night watchman. By 2000, they had
a swat team of 6 bullies dressed in combat uniforms, wanting to practice in my building.
None of these guys were natives of the area.
It could possibly be the latter, however, I'll bet that it never was an issue before, that even though someone had to technically get a permit for something, that it was ever binding.
I'd guess that the folks there just are used to pretty much doing what they wanted and nobody got in a snit about it before.
They're probably used to exercising a great deal more freedom than this (possibly new) police force was willing to let them have.
I sure couldn't see some old timer on the force doing it.
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I read nowhere in that article that he was supposed to stop. The officer wanted him to go one way, the driver’s prior understanding was for another route.
I’ve seen cops from big cities join small town departments. They either get their heads straight fast or they end up leaving town, because pretty soon, word gets around and their wife and their kids start taking the heat for their husband/father.
The Jackboot lickers are as predictable as the pit bull defenders. Neither can ever do any wrong.
The Police were just doing their job, following standard procedure. There is no record of any policeman violating a citizen.
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police seem taser happy these days. Thinking since its just a taser so no harm done just a bit of pain, they use it alot more than necessary
Taser should be like a baton, but from some police clips I’ve seen, its not how the Police seem to see it. They use it even when ppl aren’t even resisting or fighting back. The Police seem to use it, as a quick fix measure, freeze the person and we talk later. Thats like beating someone over the head when he’s not resisting then talk later
Oh, they rallied around him alright, and seems the pissed off citizens probably outnumbered the LEOs 30 to 1...Notice there was no arrest? lol...
This was a small town parade for God sakes....What is with these cops that seem to be so damn confrontational?
In Wyoming, and FIVE times.
Here’s more information:
http://www.glenrockind.com/atf.php?sid=2134¤t_edition=2009-08-27
Here’s a little clue for those of you who have never driven a tractor, antique or otherwise: They don’t stop on a dime, especially if they’re up over 10MPH.
Pulling in front of the tractor with the stupid SUV shows just how stupid the cop is. We’re talking “dumb as a load of stump holes” stupid.
Would you pull out in front of an 18-wheeler with a car and demand the 18 wheeler stop? Sure you would — if you were stupid enough to think that your authority could somehow trump the laws of physics.
Can’t say from the evidence presented.
I will say that when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The cop in these story is just the kind Obama likes as he will follow orders and never consider using common sense. When Obama’s thugs tell him to go round-up people he will click his heels together and gladly and gleefully do it.
“Police fired the Taser five times, according to a state review.”
Wonderful....fired 5 times....from right up close, when the tractor driver was stopped. Accuracy, who needs it? It sure sounds to me that the tractor was stopped with the police cruiser blocking its way when the OSSIFER decided that he needed to defend the town from all terrorists, domestic and foreign, by firing his laser weapon 5 times at this terroristic 76 year old man. As someone has already posted, a mature officer would have handled the situation to the satisfaction of all.
Seems to me this boot cop let his emotions completely overwhelm his training.
After the review, if the cop is found to have acted in a manner not representing current policy, the judgment should be that the 76 year old man taser the cop 5 times. After that, they both shake hands, and that is the end of the matter. Townspeople can go back to normal.
Mahalo
Maybe he brandished a can of Ensure at them...
Things are a little different in Wyoming. Folks in Wyoming are going to do what they want, when they want, and if you ain't into that, too bad. They won't ask your permission and sure ain't gonna ask for forgiveness. The “Wild West” is still very much alive and well in Wyoming. And frankly I love it.
Police here are at best tolerated, because they keep the tourists in line, and at worst ignored because they don't know what they are talking about. It sounds to me like they got a “Big City” cop who wanted to show off his fancy new Taser, and he found out it don't work for crap on an old cowpoke.
I know lots of men like Mr. Grose, and I call them all “Sir” because they have earned that bit of respect. Just living in Wyoming for 76 years is enough.
Besides, everybody knows you are supposed to tip your hat to the man up on the John Deere tractor.
this is nothing ..my wife tazes the kids all the time
“Don’t taze me mom!”
Common sense tells the cop that you don't tase a 76yo guy riding a tractor just because you were pissed he missed a turn and didn't stop.
Using a Taser on a 76 year old man for any excuse is cowardly, disrespectful and not behavior befitting any worthy American.
RESPECT MY AUTHORITY is what it seems like.
You didn’t read the original story. This is an old story, it didn’t just happen. The guy is deaf for one thing. For another he was moving at less than 5 miles per and he was heading in the correct direction of travel. The cop totally lost it for no reason. If you wish to kiss the butts of cops, pick another story to do it on, this cop deserves to be fired along with the police chief.
I live in rural MT and the cops are 90% local flunkies who want a real paycheck and love their petty power. City, state or Federal job is really all they are.
I tell my kids if you are ever arrested by these goombas for anything, don’t say a word and I will have an attorney there in a heartbeat.
However, there are those who choose to be cops and serve to the best of their ability and many are true heroes. To this minority of all police forces, My Family and I salute you.
I always try to treat officers with respect and comply with their instructions. It’s just safer that way.
Unfortunately there are many people that view the Police as the Blue and Silver Gang.
Just had to make a pit bull reference.
I think it’s time to put the tasers away. I support the police, don’t get me wrong. But tasers were supposed to be used instead of using deadly force, when deadly force wasn’t called for.
Instead, they are using them in all kinds of minor situations. And people are dying from being tased. In some cases, tasers are just as deadly as the officers gun.
Or MAYBE he felt the police officer didn’t realize about the long tradition or didn’t mean him.
Of course we have police officers and serfs that think LEOs can say and do anything they feel like and it’s a pronouncement from God.
and these days, too many police are members of the Blue and Silver Gang
My grandfather suffered from dementia for the last 5 years of his life along with alzhiemers. Don’t know just what I’d have done had any cop had taered him. But I can assure you it would not have been pretty.
I think it is time for each and every officer who has a taser be tazed. My be if they personal know what it can do and who they are about to use it on they may think twice. It is simular to a night stick used properly it can bring someone into submission or it can break every bone on your body,
Ozark, Missouri police officers tazer youth 19 times.
After jumping or falling from a highway over pass, a youth was tazered 19 times as he lay on the ground.
After an investigation the Missouri Highway Patrol cleared to officers of any wrongdoing.
You got that right, Cops Tasing a 9 yr old student for "non compliance", Cops Tasing people in wheelchairs for "resisting", Cops Tasing 80 year old grandmothers for getting "mouthy", Cops Tasing people already on the ground... yeah its time for the Tasers to be pulled from their hands.
I just do not feel comfortable around cop’s,
i know what they can do and get away with.
I agree. The stupid things have become a Cartman-like device, as in:
“Respect my authoratah!”
And then the cop tases you.
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