deserved it too after watching the video, he warned her quite a few times and she DID dare him
link to video: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...a.tasered.kvue
http://www.infowars.com/texas-cop-ta...t-grandmother/
Texas Cop Tasers 72-year-old Great Grandmother
Fox News has obtained police dashboard video of the tasering of a 72 year old great grandmother in Travis County, TX.
The police claim that after Kathryn Winkfein was stopped for driving 15 miles over the speed limit in a construction zone, she disobeyed an order to sign the speeding ticker, used profane language, and became “violent.” They say the officer who taserer her and took her to be booked for resisting arrest was completely justified.
However, Winkfein says that’s a lie, and the video appears to back her up.
It shows Constable Richard McCain screaming, “Get over here now!” Winkfein replies, “Give [the ticket] to me and I’ll sign it.” Instead, the officer reaches out and pushes her, and she starts complaining, “Oh, you’re going to shove me? You’re going to shove a seventy-two year old woman?”
McCain then tasers her. As Winkfein lies on the ground screaming, he orders, “Now put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back or you’re going to be tasered again.”
Fox’s Brian Kilmeade commented after running the video, “Officers insisted they acted by the book. What book is that?”
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the article is ignoring the fact that she clearly denied to sign the ticket and that he was going to arrest her. She then started to resist arest by trying to get back in the vehicle. The officer then pushed her back as she was about to step into traffic. By that point the officer had warned her ass like 9 times that if she doesnt comply he is going to use his tazer. She refused again and suffered the consequences in my opinion.
I dont know if she deserved to be tazered. Yeah she dared him but prob because she didnt think he would actually do it. He could have gone another route. He overpowered her and that was obvious, he could have turned her around and slapped the cuffs. He didnt have to tazer her.
Yeah, I'm with the officer on this one. There are plenty of stories of cop's zapping people for no reason but this isn't one of them.
i hope she was wearing Depends.
I think he actually went with the safer alternative given her age and their proximity to the road. Given how beligerant she was being I think he had enough reason to believe that she'd try to fight him. I'm sure he could overpower her pretty easily,but if it comes to that there's plenty that can go wrong. Maybe she breaks a hip, maybe someone gets tripped up and stumbles towards traffic, maybe has a knife.
Its cops like this that make others hate cops. This guy should get his ass beat by real LEOs.
Use some discretion ffs.
shoulda just signed her ticket and shut the up.....
I guess she thought she was talking to one of her kids.
did you watch the video? i woulda beat that in the head
It's amazing how the Fox (national) News story is the only one that says the cop is lying and the video proves it... every other story I've read/heard says the video proves what the cop has been saying all along.
What if she had a pacemaker and the taze made her go into cardiac arrest?
Suicide by cop?
Well yeah thats true Im not saying she wasnt at fault. She was a stupid old that just thought because she is old she should be given a pass. She shouldnt have been driving in the first place lol. However he didnt have to ing taze her, he should have just beat her ass.
Fair enough, but I think the list of "what ifs" on a physical altercation with a suspect is longer than the list of "what ifs" on simply tazing someone from the cop's point of view.
spfie, your take on this situation is pretty amusing considering the "goodwill ambassador" under your screen name...
''what if'' the stupid old lady did what was she told by the cop.
She wouldn't have been tazed.
Why was a 72 year old driving 15 miles over the speed limit in a construction zone? That's 3 strikes in 1 sentence.
That would be heart breaking. But she was given ample chances to comply so she shouldn't have been shocked when she was tazed.
No way ! That would of given her super powers because the pacemaker would have absorbed the electricity kind of like an energon cube.
That one cop being interviewed has the biggest ears I've ever seen.
Good job to the tazing cop.
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