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demmiblue

(36,751 posts)
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 11:16 AM Feb 2017

Video shows Tucson police shoving 86-year-old woman to pavement

Source: WaPo

The body camera footage of a recent protest against President Trump’s immigration policies in Tucson shows an 86-year-old woman, weighing less than 100 pounds and standing about 4 feet, 5 inches tall, approaching police officers and pointing at them as she shouted indiscernible words.

Then, a police officer appears to push her arm, causing her to fall backward and hit her head on the pavement. As a 65-year-old woman beside her reaches down to help the woman up, an officer pepper-sprays her in the face, temporarily blinding her and causing her to turn away in pain.

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“I saw the police being way more aggressive than I’ve ever seen them be,” she said. She has been participating in peaceful rallies and protests in Tucson since she moved there in 1987, she said, and has never had any problems with local law enforcement.

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LUPE wrote on a GoFundMe page that at least a dozen people, including two children, a retired teacher, a nurse, and two legal observers were “inhumanely pepper sprayed.” The group wrote that cries of “help me” could be heard as one of the leaders of Tucson Black Lives Matter was pepper-sprayed, pushed to the ground, pulled by her hair, and then dragged to the sidewalk and later into the patrol van where she was arrested.


Read more (although, you may want to stay away from the comments): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/27/video-shows-tucson-police-shoving-86-year-old-woman-to-pavement/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.676cbf08f464

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Video shows Tucson police shoving 86-year-old woman to pavement (Original Post) demmiblue Feb 2017 OP
I did as you said and stayed away from the comments but I can only imagine chelsea0011 Feb 2017 #1
Make America Suck Again world wide wally Feb 2017 #2
very fast way to a broken hip dembotoz Feb 2017 #3
Why you think heaven05 Feb 2017 #4
Dear Leader brings out the very worst in people. Cops are emboldened to be assholes. Vinca Feb 2017 #5
the cops were scared Mosby Feb 2017 #6
Cops. That's who they are. That's what they do. (n/t) Iggo Feb 2017 #7
That one police officer in the white shirt (as opposed to black shirt) looks out of control to me. hamsterjill Feb 2017 #8

chelsea0011

(10,115 posts)
1. I did as you said and stayed away from the comments but I can only imagine
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 11:27 AM
Feb 2017

Knocked her down and then started pepper spraying. Nazis.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
4. Why you think
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 01:24 PM
Feb 2017

these cowards in blue are called PIGS!!!!! Perfect example of out of control police and their out of control response(s). I read the comments...trump-bannon-miller land is here. To stay? We'll see, won't we?

hamsterjill

(15,214 posts)
8. That one police officer in the white shirt (as opposed to black shirt) looks out of control to me.
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 01:55 PM
Feb 2017

Just sayin'...

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