Cop tazes [great] grandmother, 72

As much as a pain in the ass as grandma was, there was no justification in tasering her.

Part of being a cop is calming the situation down. This dumbass should have his badge taken away and sent to mall security school.

This crap happens all the time. Some cop is too lazy or too stupid to use his/ her brain and takes the easy way out.

Twenty people have died in Canada after being tasered but of course the manufacturer and the cops they have in their pockets, deny that tasering was the cause of death.

Tell that to Robert Dziekański the guy the Mounties killed in the Vancouver airport.

 

So what if he tries to cuff her - which by all rights would have been appropriate - and she slips loose - which also isn't out of the realm of possibility given her actions - and gets hit by a car?

He's going to catch hell either way but at least this way she's still alive.

 

He puts her up against the truck or on the ground and she's not going anywhere.

 

Cop looked to have about 150 pounds and about foot and half on her.
If he couldn't physically control a woman that small, at his size, he doesn't need to be a cop.
I was also curious that his title was deputy constable. I didn't know that constables anywhere had patrol duties or enforced traffic laws.
Most constables are like court officers or kind of a glorified reserve officer.
Is that not true in Texas?

 

All of the following are true:

1) Tazers are used way too often when they should be an absolute last resort, if at all.
2) The cop probably has other options besides tazing her.
3) She doesn't get to complain about anything that happened to her, and I hope she gets jail time for acting that way to a cop.

 

Not true in my experience. (Not admitting that I've ever gotten a ticket or been pulled over by one, you understand. )

 

I've never been pulled over by a constable.

I've lost a few in chases though. )

 

Texas has weird names for law enforcement types (including the Texas Rangers).

I think constables are like sheriffs in some Texas counties.

 

Granny seems like a real bitch.

 

I honestly don't know exactly how it works. (Yes, I should, but I don't.) I do know that we have city officers (jurisdiction only within the city limits,) the county Sheriff (jurisdiction only within the non-city limits of said county) and the Constables, who I believe have jurisdiction pretty much anywhere and the only ones to have jurisdiction in gray areas (like the toll roads.)

I do know that when getting pulled over, the first thing one does is look to see if it's the city, county or constable. If it's the constable, one's head falls to the stering wheel followed by an "Oh, fuck." At least, that's what I've been told.

On topic, though, I agree with RickStain's three true points.

 

Saw this on Good Morning America this morning. The cop was in the right. She was biligerent and provoking him.
She's the one who first posed a threat to herself and to him by getting out of the car.
She refused to obey orders and repeatedly tired to get past him when he was keeping her behind the car for her own safety so she didn't get hit by a car.
He tased her as a last resort because of how she was behaving.
If she felt she was in the right, why did she suddenly shut up about this when the video surfaced?

On GMA they talked to the cop's supervisor who said the cop acted properly and that if it had been his mother acting that way he would have tased her.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7799290&page=1