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?
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.
It wasn't me. I wasn't anywhere near here. That's the truth. I'm innocent.
The police state is right around the corner and coming fast.
66 is not that old anymore. I have seen 74 year old women who are very dangerous and should be Tasered.
What?! Cars have stairs? My Audi doesn't have a staircase so what was Grandma driving?!
ping
Maybe they had to jumpstart her heart after smacking her with a nightstick? We need more details.
Some grandmas are pretty big, and if you've watched Cops, some of 'em are in your face like you wouldn't believe. Only half the story is told here. Two cops at least...one hefty woman. So why was she beeping the horn? Crack house? Why do I think a hefty lawsuit is in the works?
TASERS need to have an intensity setting, like "stun", especially if they're going to evolve into phasors. (Yuk, Yuk)
One of the original articles...
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 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.
[...]
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.""
1. Were the Officers at fault, and what for..
2. Was the grandmother found to be at fault for any part of the incident...
3. Was she ( or her husband ) charged / convicted of any violation?
4. If so, what were those violations? Did she ( or husband ) plead guilty, nolo contedre, innocent? Judicial finding, or jury trial?
If no charges were placed against the grandmother, ( or husband ) then were actual charges filed against the police officers?
Were the officers found guilty or innocent? of what? what was the punishment?
The article states the officers were "disciplined", but it does not indicate what the discipline was, nor what it was for..
etc. etc..