Posted on 08/16/2018 4:58:27 PM PDT by Mariner
A Georgia police chief is defending the use of a Taser on an 87-year-old grandmother after she was seen walking around with a knife near her home, which her family says was for cutting dandelions for a salad.
Martha Al-Bishara, 87, whose family says she doesn’t speak English, was gathering the flowers Friday on property belonging to a Boys and Girls Club organization in Chatsworth when a staff member called 911 on her for trespassing, the Dalton Daily Citizen-News reported, citing the police report.
“She’s old so she can’t get around too well, but looks like she’s walking around looking for something, like vegetation to cut down or something. There’s a bag too,” the caller told police in the 911 recording. The caller, who described the woman as wearing a “Muslim hat-looking thing,” said there were no children outside and that the woman said she didn’t speak English.
The woman's family has said that she was cutting dandelions for a salad when police used a Taser on her.
Three Chatsworth police officers reportedly responded to the scene about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta and ordered Al-Bishara to drop her knife. When she didn’t follow their command, they used a Taser on her.
Police Chief Josh Etheridge, speaking to the Daily Citizen-News, defended his officers’ actions, saying the woman should have complied even if she didn’t understand English.
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Good recap. Shameful.
Buy a bag of salad at Kroger next time.
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You must be a big tough guy. You won’t even answer me.
You’re a -rick. You must be a big tough guy. I’d beet you could take out that old lady with one arm tied behind your back.
I agree, the media is full of stories about knife wielding 87 year old women running around terrorizing neighborhoods
Regular crime wave, must be all the Alzheimers drugs and stuff they are taking
Lock em up....
Right?
You have no idea of her circumstances. She looks Eastern or Central European. At 87 she probably suffered as a girl either under the Nazi’s or Communists/Russians.
More proof that Trump’s economic policies are harming the elderly who have been reduced to eating lawn clippings.
Lighten up, Francis.
Her name is MARTHA. What makes you think she’s Muslim?
She is 87, I imagine Andy Taylor of Mayberry could have gone right up to her taken the knife away, got to the truth, and left without any problems.
The real problem was the nosy neighbor who called it in.
No Common Sense whatsoever.
Pretty stupid to assume a woman named Martha, with a grandson named Timothy, is a Muslim.
Lighten up, Francis.
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You need to get a life, Jerk.
Muzzie in uniform with a knife was all they really needed to know.
Of course, enlightened folks like you are too politically correct to profile.
You’re right.
She looks Eastern or Central European. At 87 she probably suffered as a girl either under the Nazi’s or Communists/Russians.
Pretty stupid to assume that a person with a name like Al-Bishara isn't a Muzzi. I was going to say Palestinian, but in this case, she's a gift from Syria.
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She could have brought the republic down...
Yep, tons of Russian Communists in Syria while she was growing up. And the Nazis probably were the ones who made her learn to speak Arabic. (For the historically impaired, Syria was a French mandate (given some autonomy in 1936) which was taken by the British in 1941. Britain had to invade again in 1945 to deal with DeGaulle's Free French forces.)
Not that that should make any difference. Geez, p'lice guys.
There was a complaint made. Woman doesn’t speak English. That’s her fault not the cops
Hey dweeb. Don’t come to this country if you don’t want to learn the language
She had a knife.
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