MacOSXMan Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 (edited) 69 year old woman tasered for honking horn at cops, fined $650 Associated Press Feb 9, 2007 KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A 69-year-old woman who was shocked with a stun gun after she honked her car horn at a police cruiser has been convicted of resisting arrest for sparking a quarrel with officers. A Circuit Court jury refused to send Louise Jones to jail, fining her $650 instead. Jones? attorney, Basil North, said he might appeal. ?We don?t think she should have been convicted of anything,? he said. On June 15, 2004, police officers Cory Le Moine and Ryan VanDeusen responded to a domestic disturbance call near Jones? home. The officers were cruising the street slowly, watching for trouble. Jones was in her car behind the police vehicle when she honked her horn and pulled into her driveway. Police, spooked by the horn, parked and questioned Jones, leading to a scuffle after they threatened to write her a ticket. The stun gun of one of the officers discharged during the altercation, according to testimony. The trial was Jones? second in the case. She and her 78-year-old husband, Fred, who tried to break up the scuffle, had been convicted and sentenced to probation by a judge in Municipal Court over the incident. Both appealed, and charges against the husband were dismissed, while the wife was granted a retrial in Circuit Court. ----------------------------------------------------- Why is tasering suddenly the only option police have? If they were hitting people with batons, we'd have folks up in arms. For some reason, we've accepted tasering (or even attempting to taser) to be an ethical way for police to deal with citizens. Albeit somewhat rare, people DO die from being tasered. If a police officer trained in tactical hand to hand combat can't subdue a single 69 year old woman without a taser, he should be excused from the force. If you haven't done anything wrong, or you're exercising your Constitutional Rights and an officer tries to arrest you and you don't let them that is not "resisting arrest." It's called fighting Tyranny!! Stand up for yourself! Edited February 11, 2007 by WinMacsta06 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZonoBurk Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 How sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 "A taser was discharged" my ****ing ass. A police fired the taser! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Sad. This sort of stuff happens here routinely, basically because there is no civilian oversight for police actions. I remember they kicked some guy outside of a courthouse and he yelled "**** off" at them once they got him out. He started walking away and all of a sudden the police came up behind his back and hit him. Then they tasered him a couple of times while yelling stop resisting arrest (how could he resist, he was paralyzed). Needless to say, nothing happened to the 3 police officers who beat/tasered him (all of this was caught on tape by a reporter), and I believe he was charged with "resisting arrest." IMO democracy is long gone. There is more police oversight in less democratic countries than this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomcat2821 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Wow That is crazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdverseDeviant Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 **** the police i hate em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fighter-X Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 wow that's just disgusting, they tasered the old woman for amusement knowing they could`ve just used hand-to-hand combat. wow that's just disgusting, they tasered the old woman for amusement knowing they could`ve just cuffed her. The police are bs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pallab Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 And tasering an old person can be dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Give a prick a gun, and he will shoot someone. Same goes for tazers! Police, spooked by the horn, parked and questioned Jones, leading to a scuffle after they threatened to write her a ticket. The stun gun of one of the officers discharged during the altercation, according to testimony. Spooked? By a horn? Surely the police are trained to not get spooked. So what if he had a gun and a kid yelled. Would that have "spooked" him? Huh, what the? BLAM! Spooked... whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycoolkim Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 eff the government and the police, its messed, the driving laws, the stupid rules etc.... This world has to be boring, honking at cops is a fine and a shot of tazer? wow, some cops are tight.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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