Officer tasers & jails 68 year old woman for honking her horn

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[MindFire]

Officers Placed On Admin. Duty After Taser Gun Incident
68-Year-Old Woman Says Officer Shocked Her Twice In Chest
POSTED: 5:32 pm CDT June 16, 2004
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A police officer used his Taser gun on a 68-year-old grandmother in her home Tuesday night, KMBC's Donna Pitman reported.  

Louise Jones (pictured, left) said it happened after she pulled up to her house near 50th and Euclid and saw a police car. She honked, and an officer got out of the vehicle. "He said he could give me a citation ticket for honking my horn. I said it was an accident. It's not like I laid on the horn; I honked, right in front of my house," Jones said.

Jones said the officer went to a call at another home, then returned to her house to give her a ticket for honking. "He grabbed me and I jerked away from him, and he said, 'You assaulted me,'" Jones recalled. Police said Jones wouldn't cooperate and hit the officer. That's when the officer pulled his Taser gun and shocked her, Pitman reported.

  Jones said the officer shocked her twice in the chest with the weapon. "I hollered and screamed because I thought it was a gun," she said. Jones' husband, Fred, heard the commotion in his home of 40 years and confronted the officer. The husband and wife were both arrested and jailed. Jones was cited for misuse of a horn on a city street, and her husband was ticketed for interfering with an officer.

The couple were released on bond, and now they want answers. Jones, who is recovering from knee surgery, is considering pressing charges, Pitman reported. "I have never been arrested in my life, been to the police station either -- not even for a traffic ticket," Jones said.

Jones' co-workers at Cascone's, where she has been employed for 44 years, are all talking about what happened. "We sure have been talking about it, we sure have. And don't any of us approve of it," said Jones' co-worker, Sarah McGee. "After all, this is an old lady. She's a mother, she's a grandmother, and pretty soon to be a great-grandmother." The officer who used the Taser gun has been with the department four months.

[TommyDale]

I think a turnabout would be fair play. Hold the cop down and let the little old lady hit him a couple of times with a taser. Let him see how he likes that!

[jmq]

Funny as heck,I was walking past the court house and the family has a press conference in front of the Jackson County court house. The reporters kept asking questions and the Black activist handlers wouldn't let them answer hard questions. They kept interrupting and strongly suggesting to the family members how they should answer. You won't see these take outs or raw footage.

[Indie]

I don't know the whole story......

That is the hey. There is not enough info in this typically lousy specimen of reporting to render an informed opinion.

[Gigantor]

The Police were just doing their job, following standard procedure. There is no record of any policeman ever violating a citizen.



















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[coloradan]

Please keep us posted on how this turns out, or ping me to anything you post about it.