Posted on 06/21/2004 2:02:27 PM PDT by 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.
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They surrounded his car (no problem so far), then violently pulled him out of the car and three cops piled on him knee first. I'm not sure of the wisdom of using violent methods to arrest someone who completely followed directions and gave no resistance while committing a non-violent crime.
This sounds like a really tough cop, picking on 68-year-old women. What is that mental disorder that cops have that they need to feel "superior"?
What's amazing to me is that the more outrageous the incidents get, I think to myself, "now surely this is where everyone will draw the line." And there never fails to be a number of people who will rationalize the incident.
I'll blame it on the fact that you are on a broadband connection by yourself, while I am on some mickey mouse office network. :)
There are bad cops out there, we all know that. But whenever I read these kinds of stories my first thought is there is more to the story than we are being told.
Power trip. Like some teachers, pastors, priests, doctors etc. Any authority position will attract a number of them.
The wisdom is in getting the populace to fear the police. Only then will there be true liberty.
It's amazing what some armed people can do in their first four months of duty.
Don't ask. Don't tell.
Small penis?
What? Liberty is freedom, not fear. Do you think the people under the Taliban or the heel of communism had liberty?
Ohh, she's black. Well that explains it.
Drivers poor decision lands his whole family in jail...that is title.
Barney Fife Syndrome?
She should consider herself lucky he did not shoot her.
She looks like a mean one to me.
Sorry, forgot the /s tag. Thought it wouldn't be needed, though.
I'm sure your comment was meant as sarcasm.
FMCDH(BITS)
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