demdude...got ANY evidence to support your claim that tasers are as lethal..if not more...than a gun? Old people have gotten tased before, and not died. In fact, actual evidecne shows they are no morelethal to older people than regular people and that it is VERY low lethality.
Honestly, she was kind of lucky that she did not get shot dead with a service revolver. Cops are supposed to use proportionate force but not many cops carry dueling daggers or throwing knives on them.Someone her age might not have a strong heart either, so as someone else pointed out, the cop did her a favor by not tasing her also.If there was a grassy area nearby the cop might have tried to ease her toward that area and done the takedown there. Or thrown a gymastics mat she just happened to have in the back of her squad car on the ground beside the lady before she forced her to the ground.But realistically, the lady was not cooperating and those "options" are pure fantasy.It is curious that the lady had the knife in her hand. I wonder if it was a purely random result of dementia or if she had been mugged before. In any case, not lowering her weapon around other people and in the presence of a cop seems like poor judgment. That the cops even had to tell her to lower the knife was a jaw-dropper.
she was carrying a kinfe and no matter who she was , old or young , she was a danger to the people around and what the police did was his job to protect the people from harm.
Come on though the old lady had a damn cane. The officer could easily backed up and tried to talk her into dropping the knife with out being in any life threatening danger. And for the officer to be so close for a easy sweep, I would say she rushed into the situation. But I would rather the old lady to get dropped then tazed and risk having a heart attack. The officer wasn't wrong but should have at least stayed back and told the lady to drop the weapon.
There are questions here that need to be addressed. As far as I can tell, the police and the family were both in the wrong and now we have an injured elderly lady. Where were the family members while the lady was in the parking lot? Does the lady have dementia and/or Alzheimer’s and wondered away from someone attending to her? Was someone to young of an age to handle someone with this patient’s condition?The police are taught different behavior control manners then what was displayed here, that is appropriate for an elderly woman with obviously in a weakened physical condition. This lady did not have strength to her; that is obvious by the fall and, the frailty of her body built and weight that was obvious by the braking of the skin and possibly bones from this fall (a normal person would not have sustained these injuries. Obviously, by her answers, she does not understand what was being said; if you are around someone with dementia and/or Alzheimer is you will know that they do not understand and their level of fear in their minds rather warranted or not is reality to that patient.Poorly handled all the way around. There are many wrongs here.
thegreathambinoAug 10, 2009
Same reason it's almost killed several other elderly people. Heart complications.
slappy83Aug 11, 2009
Don't be such a queen.
Closed AccountAug 11, 2009
demdude...got ANY evidence to support your claim that tasers are as lethal..if not more...than a gun? Old people have gotten tased before, and not died. In fact, actual evidecne shows they are no morelethal to older people than regular people and that it is VERY low lethality.
johnnysoftwareAug 26, 2009
Honestly, she was kind of lucky that she did not get shot dead with a service revolver. Cops are supposed to use proportionate force but not many cops carry dueling daggers or throwing knives on them.Someone her age might not have a strong heart either, so as someone else pointed out, the cop did her a favor by not tasing her also.If there was a grassy area nearby the cop might have tried to ease her toward that area and done the takedown there. Or thrown a gymastics mat she just happened to have in the back of her squad car on the ground beside the lady before she forced her to the ground.But realistically, the lady was not cooperating and those "options" are pure fantasy.It is curious that the lady had the knife in her hand. I wonder if it was a purely random result of dementia or if she had been mugged before. In any case, not lowering her weapon around other people and in the presence of a cop seems like poor judgment. That the cops even had to tell her to lower the knife was a jaw-dropper.
emperorfurkanAug 26, 2009
she was carrying a kinfe and no matter who she was , old or young , she was a danger to the people around and what the police did was his job to protect the people from harm.
atdiwAug 27, 2009
Come on though the old lady had a damn cane. The officer could easily backed up and tried to talk her into dropping the knife with out being in any life threatening danger. And for the officer to be so close for a easy sweep, I would say she rushed into the situation. But I would rather the old lady to get dropped then tazed and risk having a heart attack. The officer wasn't wrong but should have at least stayed back and told the lady to drop the weapon.
sunnybearandpudAug 27, 2009
There are questions here that need to be addressed. As far as I can tell, the police and the family were both in the wrong and now we have an injured elderly lady. Where were the family members while the lady was in the parking lot? Does the lady have dementia and/or Alzheimer’s and wondered away from someone attending to her? Was someone to young of an age to handle someone with this patient’s condition?The police are taught different behavior control manners then what was displayed here, that is appropriate for an elderly woman with obviously in a weakened physical condition. This lady did not have strength to her; that is obvious by the fall and, the frailty of her body built and weight that was obvious by the braking of the skin and possibly bones from this fall (a normal person would not have sustained these injuries. Obviously, by her answers, she does not understand what was being said; if you are around someone with dementia and/or Alzheimer is you will know that they do not understand and their level of fear in their minds rather warranted or not is reality to that patient.Poorly handled all the way around. There are many wrongs here.