Pig Tasers 75 Yr Old Woman With Broken Ribs

[Skeptic]

http://www.heraldonline.com/local/story/41...p-3890580c.html (http://www.heraldonline.com/local/story/4124708p-3890580c.html)

[Hate Is Art]

When I saw the title I though an actual pig had attacked a women with a taser :D

The Cop thing is much less shocking though.

[Scott M]

shocking!....no pun intended.

how the hell does a 75 year old woman with arthritis assault a healthy young man?!??!

scott

[Red Finch]

I agree. Like a 35 year old cop couldn't take 'a swing' from a 75 year old women with arthritis and a 6 broken ribs. There was OBVIOUSLY no other course of action he could have taken but to tazer her in the back.

What pisses me off even more is that they filed no injuries in the police report when she clearly was hurt in the fall.

I think things like this are some of the best examples of police brutality. And there are so many other people they could be out there tazering like drug dealers and other ACTUAL criminals. Save your batteries boys...

[Skeptic]

Here is another example of what the police are all about, a pig this time tasering a nine year old developly disfunctional child, An Arizona Police tasering of the little girl, this is all that I can find so far. The pig was an experienced sargent and he radioed for other pigs to bring him a taser after he had handcuffed the little girl. Fascism is coming like a freight train to America.

Officer's Taser is used on girl, 9 09:17 AM MST on Tuesday, May 25, 2004

By C.J. Karamargin / Arizona Daily Star

A veteran South Tucson police sergeant is under investigation for firing his stun gun to subdue a handcuffed 9-year-old girl.

At the request of Chief Sixto Molina, the Pima County Sheriff's Department is trying to determine if the sergeant committed a crime when he sent a jolt through the child's body.

The police officer used a Taser on the girl at about 5:30 p.m. May 8, Molina said. The nonlethal weapon uses a pulsating electrical charge to immobilize a person for several seconds.

"I'll be the first to admit, you've got a veteran sergeant Tasing a 9-year-old girl, it doesn't look good," said Molina.

The sergeant was one of at least two officers who responded to a call from the Arizona Children's Home, a school for special needs children, on South Eighth Avenue, he said.

"It had to do with a runaway from the institution," the chief said. He declined to provide further details.

The school could not be reached for comment late Monday. But Molina said that the facility is the source of frequent calls to his 25-person department.

Molina said one officer initially responded to the call from the school. That officer requested assistance from another officer and specifically asked that the second officer bring a Taser.

He said the girl was handcuffed at the time the weapon was used.

The sergeant who used the hand-held Taser remains on duty. His name is not being released while the investigation is under way.

"It didn't involve an integrity issue," Molina said. "The officer made a decision to do what he thought he needed to do."

Deputy Dawn Barkman, a spokeswoman with the Sheriff's Department, confirmed a review of the incident is under way but said she had no further details.

The results of the probe will be forwarded to the Pima County Attorney's Office.

"They'll have to present it to us to see if any criminal charges are warranted," said County Attorney's Office spokesman Dan Benavides.

Sgt. Dan Snyder, a South Tucson police spokesman, said the investigation could be complete by the end of the week.