[QUOTE=Courthouse News;22902397]Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe, after her grandson called 911 seeking medical assistance, the woman and her grandson claim in Oklahoma City Federal Court. Though the grandson said, "Don't Taze my granny!" an El Reno police officer told another cop to "Taser her!" and wrote in his police report that he did so because the old woman "took a more aggressive posture in her bed," according to the complaint.
Lonnie Tinsley claims that he called 911 after he went to check on his grandmother, whom he found in her bed, "connected to a portable oxygen concentrator with a long hose." She is "in marginal health, [and] takes several prescribed medications daily," and "was unable to tell him exactly when she had taken her meds," so, Tinsley says, he called 911 "to ask for an emergency medical technician to come to her apartment to evaluate her."
In response, "as many as ten El Reno police" officers "pushed their way through the door," according to the complaint.
The grandma, Lona Varner, "told them to get out of her apartment."
The remarkable complaint continues: "Instead, the apparent leader of the police [defendant Thomas Duran] instructed another policeman to 'Taser her!' He stated in his report that the 86 year-old plaintiff 'took a more aggressive posture in her bed,' and that he was fearful for his safety and the safety of others.
"Lonnie Tinsley told them, 'Don't taze my Granny!' to which they responded that they would Taser him; instead, they pulled him out of her apartment, took him down to the floor, handcuffed him and placed him in the back of a police car.
"The police then proceeded to approach Ms. Varner in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she began to suffer oxygen deprivation.
"The police then fired a Taser at her and only one wire struck her, in the left arm; the police then fired a second Taser, striking her to the right and left of the midline of her upper chest and applied high voltage, causing burns to her chest, extreme pain and to pass out.
"The police then grabbed Ms. Varner by her forearms and jerked hands together, causing her soft flesh to tear and bleed on her bed; they then handcuffed her.
"The police freed Lonnie Tinsley from his incarceration in the back of the police car and permitted him to accompany the ambulance with his grandmother."
Tinsley says the cops capped it all off by having his grandmother "placed in the psychiatric ward at the direction of the El Reno police; she was held there for six days and released."
"As a result of the wrongful arrest and detention, the plaintiff Lona M. Varner suffered the unlawful restraint of her freedom, bodily injury, assault, battery, the trashing of her apartment, humiliation, loss of personal dignity, infliction of emotional distress and medical bills."
They seek punitive damages for constitutional violations, from the City of El Reno, Duran, Officers Frank Tinga and Joseph Sandberg, and 10 Officers Does.
They are represented by Brian Dell of Oklahoma City.. [/QUOTE]
I'd really like to see the officers defend themselves when this goes to court
[url]http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/28330.htm[/url]
What the fuck?
[insert inevitable shocking pun]
Maybe he thought it was the big bad wolf in disguise.
"Agressive posture"?
:wtc:
So, somehow saying get out of my apartment means "Please taze me." To them?
She had murder in her eyes.
Thats just sick.
Is it just me or are cops being alittle trigger happy nowadays?
How the fuck do monsters like this ever get into a police force, shouldn't sociopaths be in a mental ward?
Should be fired and put into a rehabilitation program for being a fucking psycho.
[QUOTE=Helldoran;22930223] jerked hands together, causing her soft flesh to tear and bleed on her bed[/QUOTE]
:ohdear:
Rate me bad reading if I missed it but why the fuck were the cops even there in the first place? This whole thing is just messed up.
Don't taze my granny bro.
What the fuck causes this incident to happen, something must has been going on.
[QUOTE=Trainbike;22930426]Rate me bad reading if I missed it but why the fuck were the cops even there in the first place? This whole thing is just messed up.[/QUOTE]
Usually on emergency calls the first people on scene are the police. When my family called 911 when one of my family members had a seizure a police officer was the first to respond and waited with us and used some of his medical know-how to help in till the EMT's arrived. It's just one of those things police do to usually help and clam the situation and get everything down so the EMT's can do get the person and get out with much trouble.
[QUOTE=Domamin;22930296]Is it just me or are cops being alittle trigger happy nowadays?[/QUOTE]
There are a lot of FP threads about police brutality.
Maybe she was having a heart attack?
[I]Don't taze my granny, bro! Don't taze her! I said don't taze her!!! AHAHHAHGWAHGHAA!![/I]
Does this make me a horrible person?
[QUOTE=Domamin;22930296]Is it just me or are cops being alittle trigger happy nowadays?[/QUOTE]
Well "Cop makes arrest, no one harmed" doesn't get into the news as much as "POLICE SHOOTS WOMEN 17 TIMES ON PURPOSE!!!!" does
First two dogs get shot even though they're caged.
Then an eight year old girl gets shot in the head after having the door in her apartment kicked in.
And now they bust into a random home and taser an elderly woman.
Does the law enforcement in America hire any fucking moron walking down the street?
I can't speak for any other country, but in Sweden police officers must have a good fucking reason for even unholstering a weapon.
It seems your moron cops are way too trigger happy.
[editline]10:32PM[/editline]
[QUOTE=evilweazel;22930915]Well "Cop makes arrest, no one harmed" doesn't get into the news as much as "POLICE SHOOTS WOMEN 17 TIMES ON PURPOSE!!!!" does[/QUOTE]
Here's a thought.
Why have these things happen in the first place?
[editline]10:33PM[/editline]
OH HEY LOOK, WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED?
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=957433[/url]
[QUOTE=WOO v5;22931310]First two dogs get shot even though they're caged.
Then an eight year old girl gets shot in the head after having the door in her apartment kicked in.
And now they bust into a random home and taser an elderly woman.
Does the law enforcement in America hire any fucking moron walking down the street?
[/QUOTE]
Seems so.
What the fuck is all I can say.
This story doesn't makes any sense. Why sending a team of policemen to murder a 86 years old disabled woman ?
This must have been done on purpose.
What the fuck is this
Police brutality :saddowns:
This doesn't sound right at all. There must be something that the grandmother did that was left out.
In any case it was still wrong for the police to taze and detain her.
Poor woman. She could have been killed at her age with that force. How the hell can an 86 year old woman in her bed hooked up to an oxygen machine be a threat to 10 police officers.
[quote]"took a more aggressive posture in her bed,"[/quote]
lmao
Really?
[QUOTE=Courthouse News]an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed[/QUOTE]
VS.
[QUOTE=Courthouse News]ten El Reno police officers[/QUOTE]
Come on now.
Anyone else think of Reno 911? They even come from "El Reno".
My jaw dropped when I read that they stepped on her oxygen tube
Good thing they tazed that disabled grandma. She could have taken out at least 20 police officers on her own.
/sarcasm
In all seriousness this is pretty messed up.
Something tells me this isn't entirely true. I want a better news source for this story.
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