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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“She could have brought the republic down...”
Not with PAR35 on the job.
“Why do you want mussies who don’t speak English in our country?”
You have no idea how dumb you look.
“but what would YOU suggest when she didn’t put the knife down?”
She’s 87.
I would approach and take the knife out of her hand.
How do you know she’s Christian?
If you want to live in America learn English. If not stay in your own country
What year did he come?
You have a good night knowing that oeople come here and refuse to assimilate
She lives here
I don’t want people to come to America who refuse to assimilate
That ain’t dumb.
Well just house a bunch of nonEnglish speaking folks in your house. Good luck in case the vetting wasn’t good
Lol
She’s wearing a cross in a photo with her granddaughter or great granddaughter
That’s risky for a Muzz as a fashion accessory don’t you think?
What year did he come?
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His parents sent him to America in 1919 at the start of the Bolshevik War. He was 14.
Yeah, I saw it. There’s a few clowns on here saying it was the right thing to do.
He may not have felt comfortable speaking English but if he ran a successful business he had to understand it
My grandfather came as a teenager. He became a hot lead linotypust
"Probably should have lit her up again for good measure"
"Why is he an ass?
Always at least one asshat chiming in.
You’re disgusting.
He may not have felt comfortable speaking English but if he ran a successful business he had to understand it
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It wasn’t he didn’t feel comfortable speaking English, he didn’t know English. He ran a grocery in a Polish neighborhood.
It used to be you had to learn some to come in
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You’ve been proven wrong, but you keep on keeping on.
I have never been a police officer, but I have visited in several nursing homes recently.
I can't begin to image the thought process of the three police officers who decided the best course of action was to taser a feeble 87 year old woman. Yes, I read she was cutting flowers.
If these officers reflect current police doctrine, it does not bode well for our Republic.
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