Cop tazes [great] grandmother, 72

we have both sheriff's deputies and constables in most texas counties. and yes, the constables are ut there writing tickets just like a sheriff's deputy, policeman or whatever.

 

Exactly correct. It's supposed to be used instead of the gun to give the officer a non-lethal option to stop imminent danger -- NOT just to make someone a little more manageable.

I'm not defending that woman at all, but the cop is a complete asshole.

 

Bitch had it coming. Shut the fuck up next time, bitch.

 

Maybe he should've pepper-sprayed her instead.

 

I'd like to see how it transpired that she was able to get out of the car. That's a big no-no. Seems to me like this cop never had control and the taze was the end result. Was she in the wrong? Yes. But no way a guy that big needed to taze her. Bad woman. Bad cop.

 

I love how with stories like this when the woman in question is around that age, without fail, many media outlets will mention that she's a grandmother. But when it's a man of that age, you rarely hear him referred to as a grandfather.

The fact that she has grandchildren is relevant how?

 

She was resisting and failing to comply. Unless there's an age limit on a tazer, I'd say use it. If a cop threatened to use a tazer on me, I'd comply in a heartbeat.

 

Tazers aren't supposed to be used to make people more compliant.

 

Give her the taser! The taser!!

 

They're not?