Just part of the joy of buying apple products I guess. Me, I like companies that let me do things with what i buy and don't have me tased when I try to buy more.

Oh well.

Fanboys alight.

it points to excessive force.

It said its used for resisting arrest or failure to submit to arrest. Why was she going to be arrested??

trying to get her to leave the store and she didn't understand.

let the woman read it in her language. Were the police not smart enough to do it this way, or did they just not want to? Either way it's a bad sign for all of us. They should only be allowed to use excessive force when their lives are in danger - same law the rest of us live by.

It has to do with market-share. IIRC, you can't bring IPhones to China to sell, but I am not sure where gifting them would fall. So perhaps what she was doing is illegal. I agree though that tasering her was unnecessary.

The illegality, I'd think, would be with the Chinese government and imports, not with the US government.

Canadians used to cross into the US all the time to buy things at cheaper prices. We didn't limit what they could purchase.

I am not sure. What I know is that when I was in China in 2010, my IPhone 4 got a lot of attention and I was told about the pricing then. That is where my impression is from. I was only trying to understand why that dear, Chinese woman was treated so horribly by police and APPL employees. I don't know the actual facts about import laws.

And no, the cop is scum. "Nothing out of the ordinary," my ass.

Providing store security. Apple stores get very, very crowded. I have never been to the mall and *not* seen the Apple store mobbed with people. But I have never seen a police presence in one. Maybe mall security outside the store when a new product is released, just to keep the line orderly.

Why police presence was required instead of store or mall security is another matter.

That's fucked up

But retailers don't like paying for private security, or the huge loss from lawsuits that follow

And I agree that it's fucked up.

Edited to add: this story still stinks.

Has anyone reading this story noted the time/event lapse between the woman entering the store and speaking to the employee/manager and the tasering? What happened?

How do we know/who says she was "trying to buy too many iPhones?" That makes no sense.

There is absolutely no context between her exchange with store personnel and the arrest. What did the manager say? Was the manager so dense that he/she didn't realize that the customer could not communicate in English? Where was the daughter? What the heck? On the floor screaming? Before or after the tasering?

Something is not right in this story.

So does that mean she'd already paid for them online? I'd get pretty peeved if I couldn't collect a product I'd ordered online.

hivemind drones finger fucking devices into oblivion.

"Nashua police are reviewing the incident to determine if excessive force was used, but said that use of the Taser was standard operating procedure."

Standard operating procedure? The use of a device upon those not even actually arrested yet, a device known to "oops" and occasionally kill those it's used on, is standard operating procedure?

we put up with it, we get what we deserve.

if people got up off their asses, stopped getting distracted by consumer electronics and television, and FORCE the government to be afraid of the PEOPLE, we wouldn't have these problems.

law enforcement should always have the consent of those who are policed.

right now, it's all strong arm bullshit with the threat of arrest to keep everyone in compliance.

however, that is not what the article stated. it explicitly says "...police — who were providing security at the store’s request..." not off-duty police officers working for a private security agency.

dunno.

saying something like, Only 2 iphones per customer?

Usually when quantities are limited, there are signs about that.

There is something off about this story.

The cops charged this poor woman with a misdemeanor:

“This really is a criminal trespass, resisting arrest incident, and that’s fairly routine here.”

“There’s nothing really out of the ordinary about it.”


Li was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors. She is scheduled to return to court in January.


Raw Story (http://s.tt/1wJPN)

I can see how cops might need to protect themselves with tasers in some situations, but they overdo it all the time.

Two large policemen pin her to floor:
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fairly routine,nothing out of the ordinary... a disgrace.