Posted on 11/06/2007 4:59:30 PM PST by Westlander
CHICAGO -- Police in Chicago are investigating an officer's use of a Taser on an 82-year-old woman.
Police said the woman was swinging a hammer when they arrived at her home. They were called there after officials with the city's Department on Aging went to Lillian Fletcher's home last month to make a welfare check.
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Well, to be positive, at least she was not in a wheelchair like the last one was.
“To Protect and Serve”.....another tased grandma....aholes
She wasn’t sleeping was she?
She was swinging a hammer at them, she is glad they only tazed her.
A 5' 1" 160 lb women and the LEO tazed her. Geez
The guy should be off the force before he kills someone innocent
On one hand they shouldn’t have tasered her. On the other hand... she’s probably been swinging hammers at people for 72 years and people let her get by with it because she was a woman. I guess that finally caught up with her. :)
‘The officials called police when they saw Fletcher in a window, swinging a hammer back and forth.
Officers arrived, and while trying to subdue the woman, one of them used a Taser.
The department is trying to determine if the officer violated department policy on the use of stun guns.
The woman’s granddaughter told the Chicago Sun-Times that her grandmother suffers from schizophrenia and dementia, and that she’s “easily confused.””
Why do they deal with everyone the same way? They expect instant cooperation from mentally ill people??
Good reason to dress great grandma’s everywhere in biker’s leather. The tazer leads just bounce off. Once that adrenaline gets going though, granny’s going down one way or another.
Actually, they saw her through the window, swinging a hammer back and forth. She wasn’t swinging it at anyone.
Yeh,she was old enough to be zapped.At her age,she should know that they make walkers with brakes on them.She should not go over the speed limit.
Sgt.Ding Dong should have let her off with a warning.UNLESS,she was stealing his doughnuts!
There’s just too much missing from the story to comment.
This doesn’t have to do with old ladies, but a police officer I know had a co-worker who was scratching his head with his stun gun. Guess what happened?
Pray his next itch is much lower.
Just how big and bad was this 82 year old? How many police officers does it take to subdue someone who is 82 years old without using either a taser or deadly force?
I guess they could have used deadly force; after all, they were threatened with a deadly hammer welding great grandmother. /s ;-)
DON’T TASE ME, BRO!
I’m surprised their isn’t more talk about how to defeat a stun gun, I know how but I would rather not get flamed for it, lets just say I know a few things about grounding, rubber and ballistic material.
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