cowardly cops taser 87 year old grandmother, chief defends pussy cops

[SmarterthanYou]

If you're that fucking scared of an 87 year old woman, you should surrender your badge and go back to living in your mommies basement.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/34637...ign=benshapiro

An 87-year-old grandmother who was using a knife to snip dandelions for a salad was tasered in the chest by police — and the chief of police defends the use of force.

Martha Al-Bishara was clipping the weeds last Friday in the woods by her home in rural Georgia, about 80 miles north of Atlanta. That's when an employee at a nearby Boys and Girls Club called 911 to tell police that a woman was walking around with a knife.

"She's old so she can't get around too well, but ... " the employee said on the 911 recording, according to Fox News. "Looks like she's walking around looking for something, like, vegetation to cut down or something. There's a bag, too."

"She told me she doesn't speak English, and she's walking up the trail with a knife towards me," the caller said. But the caller also said she did not appear to be a threat.

Then a major communication breakdown occurred.

"But she came at you with a knife, though, right?" the dispatcher asked. "No," the caller said, "she just brought the knife onto the property in her hand, she didn't try and attack anybody or anything."

Two Chatsworth officers and Police Chief Josh Etheridge headed to the scene. According to their police report, they repeatedly asked Al-Bishara to drop the knife. "Her demeanor was calm, even when we had our guns out," an officer noted in the police report.

Al-Bishara walked toward the police, and when she was about five yards away, one officer fired his Taser and struck her in the chest. Officers then picked her up and placed her in handcuffs.

Etheridge told WTVC that police used the "lowest use of force" they could. "An 87-year-old woman with a knife still has the ability to hurt an officer," he said. "In my opinion, it was the lowest use of force we could have used to simply stop that threat at the time."

Etheridge says Al-Bishara ignored orders to drop the knife. But her family members say she was simply snipping dandelions, and a daughter-in-law says she has dementia and only speaks Arabic.

"If three police officers couldn't handle an 87-year-old woman, you might want to reconsider hanging up your badge," said Solomon Douhne, the woman's great-nephew.

Al-Bishara was charged with one count of criminal trespass and a second count of obstructing an officer. She was released later that day.

[countryboy]

If you're that fucking scared of an 87 year old woman, you should surrender your badge and go back to living in your mommies basement.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/34637...ign=benshapiro

Translation: "All cops suck!!!!!! Anarchy RULES!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

[Dirt McGirt]

Translation: "All cops suck!!!!!! Anarchy RULES!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Can you honestly defend the actions of the po-leece here?

[Red Crow]

Who the f*ck let's their 87 year old grandmother with dementia who can't speak English outside unattended with a knife.

WTF ....

[Controlled Opposition]

Who the f*ck let's their 87 year old grandmother with dementia who can't speak English outside unattended with a knife.

WTF ....

Seriously?

[Red Crow]

Seriously?

Seriously !

Had she been robbed by thugs instead of tased by police would it have made it any different?

[Irish Exit]

Al-Bishara

Totally justified use of electrons. Probably put some rhythm back into her ticker anyway.

[countryboy]

Can you honestly defend the actions of the po-leece here?

Nope, not at all. But the vast majority of cops are still good. Which is not what the OP would have you believe.

[Irish Exit]

Can you honestly defend the actions of the po-leece here?

Yes. 1) they didn't shoot her which they certainly had the right to do under the circumstances 2) they are not the ones who allowed someone who couldn't speak english into the country where being unable to communicate with police can get you shot, especially when you have a knife in your hand 3) they are not the ones who allowed a known dementia patient wander around with a weapon and 4)
they are not the ones who made an otherwise nuisance phone call to the police complaining about an old woman with a knife.

[Dirt McGirt]

Yes. 1) they didn't shoot her which they certainly had the right to do under the circumstances 2) they are not the ones who allowed someone who couldn't speak english into the country where being unable to communicate with police can get you shot, especially when you have a knife in your hand 3) they are not the ones who allowed a known dementia patient wander around with a weapon and 4)
they are not the ones who made an otherwise nuisance phone call to the police complaining about an old woman with a knife.

You left out the dandelions. They deserve some blame too.

[Irish Exit]

You left out the dandelions. They deserve some blame too.

Ok, thank you. and 5) dandelions like you are going to complain no matter what about the police doing their job. This is not even the first and it won't be the last shooting that happened in large part because the person shot didn't speak english and had something in their hand. This almost exact scenario played out when a relative of mine was dying when there was another patient in the ICU at the same time who couldn't speak english, had a knife in their hands when cops showed up, came toward the officers with the knife in her hand, and got dropped. Her mother also did not speak understandable english as I tried to console her and could barely make out a word she said at which another person in the waiting room explained to me why the woman's daughter was there. It also explained why I saw cops going back practically every hour.

[Controlled Opposition]

Seriously !

Had she been robbed by thugs instead of tased by police would it have made it any different?

Yes.

[Red Crow]

Yes.

Of course it would.

You guys are all the same.

[SmarterthanYou]

Nope, not at all. But the vast majority of cops are still good. Which is not what the OP would have you believe.

if the VAST MAJORITY of cops were good, there would be no bad cops because they'd have been arrested or forced out, idiot. there are no good cops because keeping their mouths shut for fear of retaliation makes them collaborators.

[Controlled Opposition]

Of course it would.

You guys are all the same.

You mean humane people who are smart enough and physically capable of disarming an 87-year-old woman.