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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:34 PM
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Grandmother tasered 5 times in Ohio.
Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 07:36 PM by AX10
http://wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=44467

I heard about this on WFSB channel 3 (Hartford CT).

disgusting

Surveillance video shows Beverly Kidwell being Tasered by a Franklin, Ohio police officer.

She says she was in the police lobby waiting to talk to an officer, but decided to leave because it was taking so long.

Kidwell says that's when an officer came out and told her she couldn't leave, then he Tasered her five times.

"I thought he was going to kill me ... and then the next thing, he shot me again and he kept saying all the time, 'get up, get up' and I couldn't ... it paralyzes your body," Kidwell said.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:35 PM
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1. Is that the cop who said he felt threatened
by this woman, or is this another tasering incident on a granny?
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:39 PM
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6. It's another fucking cop who thought "nonlethal" meant
"harmless" and probably hates women, especially older women.

Honestly, ID is going to have to start investigating tasering just like they investigate shots fired. Otherwise, we're going to have macho cops tasering anyone they don't like, which for a macho cop is just about everybody.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:40 PM
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8. I agree. Treat Tasers the same way firearms are treated.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:37 PM
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:38 PM
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5. I'm waiting.
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WLKjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:37 PM
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3. you left out part of the story
Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 07:38 PM by WLKjr
the article also says she hit her granddaughter too. Not saying this was right to taser the old woman but still, make sure you put the whole thing up and not slant the story.


<snip>
"The police are not commenting on the story, but according to the police report, Kidwell hit her granddaughter and was being arrested.

The officer says she resisted and that's why she was Tasered.

© 2005


WKYC-TV"
</snip>
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:38 PM
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4. Still, she was not under arrest.
Five times is EXCESSIVE.
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WLKjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:42 PM
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9. I am not saying it's not
I am just saying don't forget to make mention of what she was there for.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:42 PM
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10. Well, even so.
Tasered five times?
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WLKjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:46 PM
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13. I am not saying it wasn't excessive. n/t
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:15 PM
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18. DU fair use copyright rule
only allow 4 paragraphs. The OPer took the first 4.

If this woman was 'being arrested', then why wasn't she locked up where she was 'safe' and unable to leave?
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:17 PM
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19. Thank you for the support.
and yes, I did follow the copyright rules.
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400Years Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 03:14 PM
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36. cops always say all kinds of shit to cover their asses

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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 03:58 PM
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38. I hate this
When a person is accused (officially or unofficially) of a crime, police misconduct is somehow exceptable if we detest the crime that is being investigated? This idea seems to spit on the Constitution and it deeply offends me.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 03:34 PM
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41. It offends me too.
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:39 PM
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7. Excessive
How much damage can a grandmother do? Tasering her 5 times was overkill
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Dead_Parrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:42 PM
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11. Christ Almighty
He shoots her with a taser, then tells her to get up? How fucking dumb is that? I normally defend dubious actions from cops, but there is no way in hell this guy should keep his job. Finding rewarding and useful jobs for people with learning difficulties should not include weapons.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:53 PM
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32. Sounds power hungry
:\ No way to treat someone like that.
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:43 PM
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12. I don't know how big the jail is there......
but one would guess that he could of called/radio easily for immediate reinforcements to contain the situation. My thoughts are that once a potential target see's that little "red laser tag" on their chest, that they would cool their heels real fast.

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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:47 PM
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14. This cop was out of LINE, period.
She wasn't even under arrest.

You can never admit the police are wrong, or tasers either, can you?
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theshadow Donating Member (618 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:50 PM
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15. Just like you'll never admit they're right.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 07:51 PM
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16. I have never done such a thing.
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:20 PM
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20. You need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 08:20 PM by liberalnurse
Did you even read my post? I never said one way or the other about the Officer being right or wrong......Now did I!:grr:

Your attack mode and assumption attitude is pissing me off.

If you read the damn post, you will see I suggested he contain the situation in another fashion.

Now read it and get back with me.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:25 PM
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21. You are pissing me off.
Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 08:29 PM by AX10
from your post

"My thoughts are that once a potential target see's that little "red laser tag" on their chest, that they would cool their heels real fast"

What is that supposed to mean?

First you claim that backup should have been called and then you throw in this line about using the Taser.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:27 PM
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22. What's the little red laser tag?
Is that some type of laser pointer/target-type thing for a taser?
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:28 PM
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24. The red light shows on the target's body (person about to be tortured)...
I oppose tasers 100%.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:31 PM
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25. So it's like a warning light
to let the potential taseree know that, if he or she does not get in line, they will be hit with a taser?

???
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:40 PM
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26. yes.
.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:42 PM
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27. Gotcha thanks.
Somehow, that makes it worse. :(
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:48 PM
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33. I am 100% anti-EMD "technology".
The FBI should shut the SOB's down by force.
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:46 PM
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29. yea......
just like with the rifles.
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:45 PM
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28. It means simply that
one should stop in their tracks. I do even when I watch them aim the Taser at someone....It is intimidating.......and I'm just watching.

My primary point was that there was no perceived danger or emanate threat posed by this gal wherein the Officer couldn't easily call for a few other Correction Officers or Deputies in the jail to assist. No, I've seen much worse behavior in a lobby and it was easily handled with a loud, powerful command and a tall posture.



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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:51 PM
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34. It's not clear in the story whether she was under arrest or not
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 02:57 PM by JVS
If she wasn't already under arrest the reason in this story for tasering are rediculous. You don't taser people for wanting to leave the PD who haven't been arrested.
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TX-RAT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:57 PM
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35. Why was she there?
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:11 PM
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17. Taser thread????
Nah, I think I will just sit back and watch this one...:popcorn:
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:27 PM
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23. She must have been one powerful granny
Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 08:29 PM by WI_DEM
Of course she was also being interrogated for child abuse, but still...
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FlaGranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 03:38 PM
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37. I'm glad that
my mother wasn't arrested and tasered many years ago when she walloped me for using a cuss word, or the few other times I got spanked for misbehaving. Of course, there were no tasers then.

I used to know someone who got off on "bondage of women." He would have absolutely loved tasering. If he were still alive, he would have one.
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hankthecrank Donating Member (490 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:49 PM
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30. These Grandmothers are getting out of hand
So I don't get it.
The first shot put her down on the floor.
He shot her again because she wouldn't get up!
He shot her 3 more times because she wouldn't get up!

I guess he doesn't know how to use the Taser

Kidwell (Grandmother) should be able to shot this asshole 5 times so he might learn how to use it.

I might suggest that she take the wires and put them in the wall socket because the battery sounds like it might be weak! I bet he stands up just fine!!!
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-12-05 08:50 PM
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31. Oh my gosh
:cry:
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 05:09 PM
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39. She's 68! WTF?

If she's under arrest, then why was she sitting in the lobby? Wouldn't she have been arrested? Something smells bad here.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 03:33 PM
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40. Ban tasers!
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-14-05 03:38 PM
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42. these taser stories nauseate me....
:(
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