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Deputy Tasers woman, 72, during traffic stop
Assoc. Press ^ | 06/10/2009

Posted on 06/10/2009 9:06:48 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- She dared a deputy constable to shock her with a Taser.

So, he did.

Video released by a Travis County Constable's Office shows Deputy Chris Bieze confronting 72-year-old Kathryn Winkfein after stopping her for speeding on May 11 just outside Austin.

Video from a camera mounted in the deputy's car shows Winkfein cursing and challenging the deputy and even daring him to use the Taser on her.

"You're going to shove me? You're going to shove a 72-year-old woman?" she yelled.

Winkfein told KTBC-TV in Austin that she did nothing to provoke the use of the Taser.

But Precinct 3 Sgt. Maj. Gary Griffin said Bieze used the Taser only after Winkfein became combative.

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To: mom4melody

My question exactly.


41 posted on 06/10/2009 9:30:09 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: shooter223
I love these people here that think it was perfectly OK and a profession thing to taser tiny grandma....This is really laughable.

As if this officer was not capable of simply handcuffing grandma and moving here away from traffic...

In a world gone mad!~

42 posted on 06/10/2009 9:30:38 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2

Combative?

Are they joking?

_________________________

Upthread is the video. Watch it. See for yourself.

This “lady” is a Texan. Might be 72 years old. But she probably can still kick some a$$.


43 posted on 06/10/2009 9:30:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: prismsinc
The problem is....once you put your hands on her....unless she becomes absoilutely docile...you're gonna "hurt" her...

Don't threaten LE...because it puts you on the defensive.

44 posted on 06/10/2009 9:31:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RC2

He didn’t Taze her until after she got past him once.

It’s not a game of Pong. You just can’t push her back from the road indefinitely. Eventually you have to get the cuffs on her.


45 posted on 06/10/2009 9:31:53 AM PDT by gridlock (L'Etat, c'est Barack...)
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To: Responsibility2nd
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46 posted on 06/10/2009 9:32:40 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sounds like a case of stupid on both sides. The old bag can be stupid. Not the cop.


47 posted on 06/10/2009 9:33:22 AM PDT by Double Tap
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To: Responsibility2nd

48 posted on 06/10/2009 9:35:29 AM PDT by SIDENET ("Join me or die. Can you do any less?" -Mr. Sparkle)
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To: DogBarkTree

Can someone post the video of granny being tasered ?
Thanks...


49 posted on 06/10/2009 9:35:59 AM PDT by blue99
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To: DesertRhino

to #24. Just because someone is 72 does not give them a right to be mean and hateful anymore than it gives a 21 year old that right. I’ve seen many old women who are mean as snakes and want to fight about everything. If he had touched her, he would have been sued!!


50 posted on 06/10/2009 9:36:00 AM PDT by bareford101 (barefoot prince)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I disagree. That policeman’s mother “Raised him Ugly”. You just don’t taz someone for this....a reasonable person would not agree with this.

Granted, he was confronted with a dangerous threat and made a tough decision to not use deadly force and instead use the humane method to subdue this threat! Give me a break...he gives law enforcement a bad name...nothing more than a bully in blue.


51 posted on 06/10/2009 9:36:27 AM PDT by PsyOps
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To: Responsibility2nd
This “lady” is a Texan. Might be 72 years old. But she probably can still kick some a$$.

lol....Typical BS texan response.

Texas is a joke, that brought us Bush and LBJ, with weather that even insects hate...Not to mention their cops seem to be real punks, that are not even capable of simply handcuffing little ol ladies, that are *half* their size.

lol

52 posted on 06/10/2009 9:36:36 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2

Wlaking into traffic.

“go ahead, taze me”

The “lady” is a dumbass.


53 posted on 06/10/2009 9:37:38 AM PDT by Freedom_Fighter_2001 (Look for my new book - "Great Moderates of History")
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To: Responsibility2nd
Ya! Drop the old lady like a sack of rocks onto the pavement....Ya, it's much safer to tase 72 year old ladies than simply handcuff them...

He showed that old lady...

wow...

54 posted on 06/10/2009 9:39:52 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Responsibility2nd

The media want us to think this is real bad because she is a “72 year old great grandmother.”
What if this had been a 18 year old White male?


55 posted on 06/10/2009 9:40:58 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: prismsinc

That is about my sense of it. They were both wrong. She invited the tasing with her deliberately truculent attitude. (Hell, she literally dared him to do it.) And he, given his greater size and training, should not have taken her bait. He should have just manhandled her into the cuffs, or at least tried to first (then tase — if need be).


56 posted on 06/10/2009 9:41:18 AM PDT by pogo101
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To: Freedom_Fighter_2001
The “lady” is a dumbass.

Half the population is, what's new?

Most of the elderly out there on the roads are all doped up on medications, what's new?

The fact here is, the LEO was twice the old ladys size. Why not just cuff her? Was he not capable?

Ye don't tase grumpy ol ladies, over traffic infractions man! lol...

57 posted on 06/10/2009 9:43:14 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: Responsibility2nd

The officer should have pressed the button two or there more times. What an arrogant, out-of-control twit that great-grandmother is!! She apparently thinks she is above the law.


58 posted on 06/10/2009 9:44:55 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Responsibility2nd
Sorry about the "Sgt. Gary Griffin" misappropriation.

I'm unclear as to whether you believe that using a tazer on, especially a woman for being belligerent (obviously NOT on PCP or other dangerous drug).

I still maintain that only in 2009 America would any police official feel necessary to "defend" himself against any 72 year old woman for refusing to SIGN a traffic ticket.

Most especially, no reasonable person would consider it appropriate to use electrical shock, for that's basically what a tazer is on a woman who refuses to sign a traffic ticket!

59 posted on 06/10/2009 9:48:39 AM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
The officer should have pressed the button two or there more times.

Drop her like a bad habit onto the pavement! Then tase her again! Make her do the Texas chicken!

Then shoot the dummy when the batteries run out!! LOL....

I want to thank everyone for the comments on this thread...We all have got a big ol belly laugh out of this...Made our morning!!

60 posted on 06/10/2009 9:49:23 AM PDT by dragnet2
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