Posted on 08/21/2004 9:50:10 PM PDT by ambrose
Sat, August 21, 2004
Police taser honking grandma
Said woman, 66, tussled with officers
By AP
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Police said yesterday two officers have been disciplined and department policy changed following an investigation into the officers' use of a taser when arresting a 66-year-old grandmother who honked her car horn at a police cruiser. Louise Jones was arrested in June on charges of misuse of a car horn on a city street, resisting arrest and intentionally inflicting bodily harm on an officer. Her husband, Fred Jones, 74, was also arrested and charged with interfering with an arrest.
Police said Louise Jones tussled with officers when they tried to give her a ticket for honking the horn. One of the officers used the taser, which is capable of issuing a 50,000-volt shock, to stun her. The officers said Fred Jones then came downstairs and jumped on one of the officers' backs.
Louise Jones said she pulled away from the police when one of the officers grabbed her arm, and her husband said one of the officers had his knee on his wife's chest.
As a result of an internal investigation, the department has increased the threshold for when taser use is appropriate and now requires a field commander to look into each taser deployment.
Police have also developed a task force made up of community members and department personnel to look into the department's current taser-use policies.
"This was an unfortunate incident that I believe could have been avoided if there would have been a less confrontational environment," said Chief Richard Easley in a statement. "Officers of this department, however, are held to a very high standard in their professional conduct."
ping!
pfffftttttt!
Hey in Chicago we have 33 year-old grandmothers, doesn't stop their crack habit though.
It was clearly a her-or-them situation. The sad fact is, sometimes you have to deliver a painful electric shock to someone's grandma to preserve societal peace; none of us want to live in the chaos and anarchy brought on by unrestrained and unpunished car-horn honking, do we?
Are there laws on the "proper use of a car horn"???
resisting arrest and intentionally inflicting bodily harm on an officer.
sucks to be these two cops. The chief was on the radio today talking about this. They get to keep their jobs but their names are definitly mud for a while.
If you aren't supposed to honk, why do cars come equipped with them???!! (sarcasm)
Police said Louise Jones tussled with officers when they tried to give her a ticket for honking the horn.
A ticket for honking a horn? pffffffftttttt! The cops brought it on themselves.
It wasn't me. I wasn't anywhere near here. That's the truth. I'm innocent.
"Throw the book" charges added after Tasering to intimidate her into accepting her shocking like a good kine.
The police state is right around the corner and coming fast.
If you look at a cop wrong it's assaulting an officer.
66 is not that old anymore. I have seen 74 year old women who are very dangerous and should be Tasered.
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What exactly can a horn be used for?
Yeah, she wrinkled his shirt during the big "horn blowing" bust and the courageous officer, with no time to think, fell back onto his training and zapped gramma with 50,000 volts and then put a knee into her semi-conscious body to make sure she didn't get up and wrinkle his tie.
SURELY you aren't defending these idiots who tased a 66-year-old woman? Do you really think they were in fear of physical harm from her?
MM
What?! Cars have stairs? My Audi doesn't have a staircase so what was Grandma driving?!
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