Friday, June 25, 2010

Don't taze my granny

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/60261.html

This is just no longer acceptable. These situations are not accidents. They are the results of intense police training. The question is: Whose format of training are they being taught by?
This situation makes it quite obvious that there is no room for independent thought allowed for otherwise this bed ridden woman would have never been tazed.


Lonnie Tinsley of El Reno, Oklahoma made a nearly fatal mistake last December 22 when he went to check on his grandma, Lona Vernon.

Concerned that Lona hadn’t taken her medications, Lonnie called 911 in the expectation that an emergency medical technician would be dispatched to the apartment to evaluate the bedridden 86-year-old woman.

Instead, that call for help was answered by nearly a dozen armed tax-feeders employed by the El Reno Police Department.

Understandably alarmed — and probably more than a little disgusted — by the presence of uninvited armed strangers in her home, Lona ordered them to leave. This directive, issued by a fragile female octogenarian confined to a hospital-style bed and tethered to an oxygen tank, was interpreted as “aggressive” behavior by Officer Thomas Duran, who ordered one of his associates : “Taser her!”