Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Only in America
When Lonnie Tinsley's 86-year-old bedridden grandmother didn't take her medicine, he called emergency services in El Reno, Oklahoma. A dozen armed officers arrived at the scene.
According to officer Duran’s official report, Mrs Vernon had taken an 'aggressive posture' in her hospital bed. In order to ensure 'officer safety', one of his men 'stepped on her oxygen hose until she began to suffer oxygen deprivation'.
Another of the officers then shot her with a 60,000 volt taser, but the connection wasn’t solid. A second fired his 60,000 volt taser, 'striking her to the left of the midline of her upper chest, and applied high voltage, causing burns to her chest, extreme pain', and unconsciousness. Lona was then handcuffed with sufficient ruthlessness to tear the soft flesh of her forearms, causing her to bleed. After her wounds were treated at a local hospital, Lona was confined for six days in the psychiatric ward at the insistence of the El Reno Police Department.
IMO: If a bunch of armed American coppers need to taser an old lady to get her to take her medicine, there really seems little point in sending US troops to face the Taliban. They definitely need drones.
According to officer Duran’s official report, Mrs Vernon had taken an 'aggressive posture' in her hospital bed. In order to ensure 'officer safety', one of his men 'stepped on her oxygen hose until she began to suffer oxygen deprivation'.
Another of the officers then shot her with a 60,000 volt taser, but the connection wasn’t solid. A second fired his 60,000 volt taser, 'striking her to the left of the midline of her upper chest, and applied high voltage, causing burns to her chest, extreme pain', and unconsciousness. Lona was then handcuffed with sufficient ruthlessness to tear the soft flesh of her forearms, causing her to bleed. After her wounds were treated at a local hospital, Lona was confined for six days in the psychiatric ward at the insistence of the El Reno Police Department.
IMO: If a bunch of armed American coppers need to taser an old lady to get her to take her medicine, there really seems little point in sending US troops to face the Taliban. They definitely need drones.
# posted by uv : 6:49 AM
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