what about that congress woman that punched the cop?
Her mistake was not being a Congresswoman of the right party!
She was just raising a little cane
How can they not be embarrassed?
These cops are petty amateurs....a real pro would have pepper sprayed and tased the lady and shot a dog or two on the way in.
Need more info, why did the cops make a visit to begin with.There is more to this story I am sure, then again, maybe not as of late.
“they went to her home south of South Bend to check on her welfare in February 2005.”
We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It sounds likely to me that the cops started it.
Why would you send two policemen around to see if an old lady was OK? Who sent them? Very fishy.
Hang the old Bitch!
She deserves it!
two police officers suing an 80 year old 100 lb. woman for hurting them while they are in her residence.
They should be laughed off the force.
It must have been raining that day ,otherwise they would have beem out using their radar gun for some quick bucks.
Jeeeez!!!!
I swear! Cops these days????
A cantankerous 81-year-old WOMAN whops him upside the head with a wooden cane and he has the NERVE to write her up and admit to it?
And he wasn’t laughed right out of the squad room?
Sheesh!
If I was a police officer, I’m not sure I’d want to report the fact that I’d been beaten up by a 5 foot tall, 100 pound, 81 year old lady. I think I’d just go to the emergency room and say I tripped and fell at home and hit my head.
At least she wasn’t screaming “do you know who I am?” while bopping them.
Cops come to the door to check on a woman ..
(why?)
Some guy says she's OK, go away..
(I'm guessing) the cops insisted on seeing the lady
The guy keeps saying no
The cops try to arrest him
Granny appears and says leave him alone (another guess)
Granny is obviously OK
but the cops NOW have a reason
still trying to arrest the guy
Granny takes umbridge
and whaps the cop upside the head with her cane.
Seems to me the cops are guilty of something ... invasion or something.
Granny is defending self and property (boy friend?)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – A 79-year-old woman has been charged with using her wooden cane to strike police officers who arrived at her home to check on her welfare.
St. Joseph County prosecutors said the officers came to investigate a possible domestic abuse charge against Betty Chambers' live-in caretaker, Thomas Holleman, 57.
It doesn't appear that Holleman was ever charged with anything except failure to lick the investigating officers' jackboots with sufficient enthusiasm.
If an old granny lady whacked me with her cane I would look her dead in the eye and say:
"Granny, that didn't hurt a bit! You're slipping in your old age!"