Their is nothing to say. Police apologists will say we need to get the whole story and ask everyone to stop bashing on police. Honest citizens will keep their mouths shut because if they dare to speak they may get tazed for disorderly conduct and disrespecting police authority....

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Truth is.... we bacame a fascist nation a few years back... it just takes awhile for the populas to accept it. Those that refuse to accept it will be tazed detained and shipped off to you local re-education centers.

SOME police men and women make it very hard not to hate and despise ALL police men and women. No compassion and fear come to mind (possibly lazyness and some type of sadistic satisfaction) within these police men and womens' minds. If they had compassion and empathy, then maybe this event would have never occurred. I say all this with granting that the story is 100 percent true of course.

-Joe-

[edit on 19-7-2008 by Unlimitedpossibilities]

This must state much about todays police training and fitness programs. Officers are apparently unable to defeat attacks by or subdue without weapons a BLIND person. Good news for criminals in that town.

Add this to the long 'unbelievable taser use' list.


[edit on 7/19/2008 by roadgravel]

the only thing worse than police brutality is police apologists

Ok let me make sure I got this right...we all know I can be slow sometimes....

A women who is not a suspect, refuses to speak to officers (which is her right to do) and somehow manages to become "combative" so they tase her.

So I have to ask.... how freaking hard is it to get out of the way of a punch from a blind person!??? Seriously... I highly doubt it was a very threatening situation for a trained police officer. I know police don't like to give up any ground but this cop couldn't take 2 steps back and let the blind women swing at the air?

If I was this women's neighbor I would be sitting in jail for beating the crap out of this control freak pig. Sorry to the cops who actually do a good job, but this cop is a freaking pig and it is cops like this that make the wholebunch look bad in the eyes of the public. I am sure it takes a real big tough guy to win a physical confrontation with a blind person who has cancer!! Whats next?? Knocking people out of their wheelchairs?? Oh wait.. these pigs have already done that as well! Maybe it's time to go to teh Special Olympics and beat up and tase all these dangerous individuals as well. That should make them feel really powerful and tough then!

Its sick.To do that.Its an embarrassment to the police that large fit officers have to taze a sick old woman.It makes them look like cowards.And shows there lack of skills.
However there is a reason they are motivated by there superiors to use these devices alot.A kind of psychological warfare.
If they taze a sick old woman, and the public sees it, then the hardcore criminals think wtf?Who are we up against here these cops are ice cold.
And would be more inclined to think twice about things.
Some bizarre attempt to make the criminals see the Police as a tougher adversary.

another step towards hunting season for cops..i can honestly say things like this make me happy when they get shot....

Originally posted by Being_From_Earth
If they taze a sick old woman, and the public sees it, then the hardcore criminals think wtf?Who are we up against here these cops are ice cold.
And would be more inclined to think twice about things.
Some bizarre attempt to make the criminals see the Police as a tougher adversary.

I am not a criminal so I cannot say how one would think. But from the point of view of a person, I have to disagree. I see this as a weakness. It also helps remove some respect, concern and support for them. I say it makes it easier for me if I were in a confrontation.

May be it works the other way for other people, not me.

(Regarding Dulcimers comments)

Come on do you really think that the incident justifies a Taser?

I have seen police take down grown men with bats, I highly doubt that an unarmed woman in her 50's with Cancer and the rest of it is justification to use a taser.

Talk about reasonable force, sounds way too harsh

[edit on 19/7/2008 by LestatG]

I would not be surprised if the cops helped to rile her up so that an assault charge could come into play and therefore an arrest. Don't assist the cops, you go to jail.

That is the part that I cannot know, and it is possible, that the cops worked her up enough to get her fighting and then charged her that way.

I am not a fan of excessive force, but if she really was out of line, no matter the condition, you just can't stand back and hope for safety.