Police tase nude 80-year-old woman

[Cali_Democrat]

DORCHESTER COUNTY, SC (WCSC) -

Investigators say a nude 80-year-old woman was tased after she attempted to attack a police chief and two of his officers using her walking stick in Dorchester County.

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A police officer said he saw an elderly woman with no clothing standing on a porch. The officer says the woman was hitting the rail of the steps with her walking cane. As the officer was calling for EMS, the woman came down from the porch and was told by the officer to stand still.

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A police report states that as officers tried to take the cane from the woman, she began to swing the cane at the three police officers. Another officer then arrived and tried talking with the woman, but police say the woman continued to swing at one of the officers and spoke "confusingly."

Investigators say as the woman was talking to an officer, another officer deployed his taser striking the woman in the back. EMS personnel then removed the taser prongs from the woman and transported her to Colleton Medical Center for treatment.

http://www.live5news.com/story/18792030/police-nude-80-year-old-woman-tased-after-attacking-officers?hpt=ju_bn4

You're telling me the police can't even subdue a nude 80-year-old woman, who uses a walking cane, without a taser?

[malaise]

1. When did an old woman with dementia become

the enemy

[rfranklin]

6. She might have had a weapon concealed in her vagina...

people put all kinds of things in those openings.

[enough]

15. My god, the minute I heard about this I thought of the women (and men) I got to know

on the dementia-care facility where my father lived for a few months. These are the people above all who need compassion, and protection. It seems as if in these times, the minute you step outside of the limits of "normal," you immediately lose your status as human. Or maybe it's worse than that, and being human no longer gives you any access to compassion.

Oh, sorry to go on, I just see those people so clearly. Their understanding of clothing can be very confused, and they can lash out in a fear-based anger that looks scary if you haven't seen it before. Physical punishment is the worst possible reaction.

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. When I lived in LA a twenty-something, 200+ lb. cop executed an 80 lb. homeless woman in her

60's for "threatening" him with a screwdriver.

He walked.

But it's not a police state, nothing to see here.

[patrice]

8. There ARE people who WANT to kill other people, especially if the balance of power to do so is in

their favor.

[liberalnationalist]

9. good point

not a police state....a cop tazes someone 80 is just par for the course in free America

[slackmaster]

3. They left out "unarmed"

As in "Police shoot nude, unarmed 80-year-old woman"

[WI_DEM]

4. how hard could she be swinging that cane? I don't think this was called for

[patrice]

5. Oh, this doesn't have anything to do with any of us, never will. One event has no effect upon

anything else. Nothing is negatively changed by an isolated incident. Have the officer apologize and forget it. No harm, no foul. She is obviously demented and too poor to afford appropriate assistance, so she deserves what happened to her and she'll remember better to dress herself and not become a danger to the officers.

Nothing in the universe has any effect upon anything else, unless we say it does.

[demosincebirth]

7. One of the thing that is really wrong with our police, lack of training in subduing an 80 year

old naked women. For God sake , don't they have any common sense. Three officers had to tase her. What harm can she do to them with walking stick...besides sticking it up their ass? I wish she could've.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

10. The irrationally of the police is amazing.

The police report even indicates that she didn't start swining her walking stick until they tried to take it away from her. She probably needed it for balance.

The preception by others that police are acting irrationally is illustrated by one of the responding posts at the web site:
"A Dorchester County rookie deputy was assigned to ride in a cruiser with an experienced partner. A call came over the car's radio telling them to disperse some people who were loitering. The officers drove to the street and observed a small crowd of children standing on a corner. The rookie rolled down his window and said, "Let's get off the corner." No one moved, so he barked again, "Let's get off the corner!" Intimidated, the children began to leave, casting puzzled glances in his direction. Proud of his first official act, the rookie deputy turned to his partner and asked, "Well, how did I do?" "Pretty good," replied the veteran, "Especially since this is a school bus stop."

[justiceischeap]

11. She deserved it, I'm sure

Not only was she swinging that cane around but I bet her old-lady boobs were swaying dangerously too. You could take an eye out with some of them.

If they were really fearing for their lives, wouldn't mace or a blast of pepper spray have been better?

[HopeHoops]

12. And just WHAT was the problem here?

[Uncle Joe]

13. She was a child during the Great Depression, a teen during WWII and a young woman

during the McCarthy Era witch hunts and some young punk with too much power, a badge and three other grown men with badges, guns, nightsticks and who knows what else is willing to risk killing this old and obviously mentally disabled woman for waving her walking stick.

That's just pathetic.

Thanks for the thread, Cali_Democrat.

[bluedigger]

14. I bet they were trying to avoid "physical contact".

It was wrong, but I get it. Tasers are abused for many reasons, and this is one more.

[Sirveri]

16. Well, in their defense, those old ladies can be REALLY strong.

Still remembering my experience on the school yard.

Do I need the sarcasm tag?

[Major Nikon]

17. Sounds like another case of bath salts

Just sayin'