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No justification for using Taser on grandma
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 11/05/2007 | MARY MITCHELL

Posted on 11/07/2007 12:41:38 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

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Another 'Cops tazing old crazy folks' thread.
1 posted on 11/07/2007 12:41:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
"... Chicago Police officers went to a West Side home to make a "well-being" check."

I wonder if they called out:"Police, open up and let us make sure you're O.K., or we'll Taze you."
2 posted on 11/07/2007 12:46:51 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Don’t taze me, Sonny!”


3 posted on 11/07/2007 12:47:10 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll. <br> "What happens if neutrinos have mass?")
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To: Responsibility2nd

LOL! Next time, no tazers. Just have a couple big cops tackle her. Or use lassos. Much safer.


4 posted on 11/07/2007 12:48:05 PM PST by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
FBI reviewing Tasering of sleeping man; no charges file

Questions hang over taser death

Police Officer Attacks Handcuffed Woman With Taser Weapon At Least Twice

Guard Uses Taser on Man Holding Newborn

Underwear Clad Man Dies After Police Taser

Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times

These are just a few recent threads regarding cops who tase first.

5 posted on 11/07/2007 12:48:34 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Grandma got TASERED by a sheriff
walkin’ home from our house Christmas eve.
You can say there’s no such thing as FREEDOM.
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe.

She’d been drinkin’ too much egg nog.
And we’d begged her not to go.
But she’d forgot her medication,
and she staggered out the door into the snow.

When we found her Christmas mornin,’
at the scene of the attack.
She had NEEDLE HOLES on her forehead,
And incriminatin’ CUFF marks on her back.

Grandma got TASERED by a sheriff,
walkin’ home from our house Christmas eve.
You can say there’s no such thing as FREEDOM,
but as for me and Grandpa, we believe.

Now were all so proud of Grandpa.
He’s been takin’ this so well.
See him in there watchin’ football,
drinkin’ beer and playin’ cards with cousin Belle.

It’s not Christmas without Grandma.
All the family dressed in black.
And we just can’t help but wonder:
Should we open up her gifts or send them back?
(Send them back)

Grandma got TASERED by a sheriff,
walkin’ home from our house Christmas eve.
You can say there’s no such thing as FREEDOM,
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe.

Now the goose is on the table.
And the pudding made of fig.
And a blue and silver candle,
that would just have matched the hair in Grandma’s wig.

I’ve warned all my friends and neighbors.
“Better watch out for yourselves.”
They should never give a license,
to a man who drives a car with donuts on the seat.

Grandma got TASERED by a sheriff,
walkin’ home from our house, Christmas eve.
You can say there’s no such thing as FREEDOM,
but as for me and Grandpa, we believe.
(Sing it Grandpa)

Grandma got TASERED by a sheriff,
walkin’ home from our house, Christmas eve.
You can say there’s no such thing as FREEDOM,
but as for me and Grandpa, we believe.

Merry Christmas


6 posted on 11/07/2007 12:49:41 PM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sorry, but a crazy old lady swinging a hammer can cause serious damage.


7 posted on 11/07/2007 12:49:48 PM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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To: theDentist
Beat me to it.

DAMN YER EYES!

8 posted on 11/07/2007 12:50:19 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Cops love this kind of thing. I’m sure that after their shift they met down at the local cop bar and laughed all night about the look on that old lady’s face while she took the ride.

At least they didn’t shoot her and then handcuff her so she could bleed out while they planted drugs in her house.


9 posted on 11/07/2007 12:51:17 PM PST by VRing (Happiness is a perfect sling bruise.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The cops had a new toy. Too bad they didn’t have the intelligence and sense to not use it. Once the program is activated in their minds (”dangerous perp”) they can’t think straight.


10 posted on 11/07/2007 12:51:39 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Responsibility2nd
Greg Kelley on Fox and Friends this morning opined, "She's lucky she wasn't shot."

I would've tazed the old gal too if she was swinging a hammer at me.

11 posted on 11/07/2007 12:51:51 PM PST by CholeraJoe (Be unique. It makes it easier for the rest of us to identify the morons.)
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To: Kozak

She was in her own home. She told them to leave. They had no warrant.

She had no obligation to let them in.

Period.


12 posted on 11/07/2007 12:52:10 PM PST by Politicalmom (Of the potential GOP front runners, FT has one of the better records on immigration.- NumbersUSA)
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To: Kozak
I would have grabbed a hammer too inside my own house if someone barged in.

Keep in mind, this all happened inside her OWN house, not like she was on the street.

13 posted on 11/07/2007 12:52:53 PM PST by BGHater (Lead. The MSG for the 21st Century.)
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Police allegedly used a Taser on 82-year-old Lillian Fletcher when performing a well-bring check at her home.
15 posted on 11/07/2007 12:53:56 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

Good thing the police went to help her out.


16 posted on 11/07/2007 12:54:19 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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They should have called EMS and drugged her,

And you expect an unarmed, unprotected EMT to get close enough to a demented woman wielding a hammer to find a vein and drug her? EMT's don't carry tranquilizer guns.

17 posted on 11/07/2007 12:56:54 PM PST by CholeraJoe (Be unique. It makes it easier for the rest of us to identify the morons.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m sure glad she didn’t have a dog. It would only have confused these fine officers.

Can you imagine?
Shoot dog, or shoot great grandma, the dementia patient with a hammer? The possibilities are varied. But somebody was getting shot with something!

Now, at the very least, they only have to bury the story. :-)~


18 posted on 11/07/2007 12:57:38 PM PST by JoeSixPack1
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To: Responsibility2nd

What are they doing forcing their way into the house?!? The woman cracked the door and obviously didn’t want them inside. What gives them the right?


19 posted on 11/07/2007 12:57:53 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: Kozak

Well thank God the cops are here to do “well being” checks. The checks may kill you, but at least they did their duty. Sarcasm “on”


20 posted on 11/07/2007 12:58:48 PM PST by DariusBane (Shock and Awe used to mean something! (Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tokyo and Dresden))
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