Tuesday 29 June 2010

Grandma, what big teeth you have!

You know that I have a problem with the police - too many of them think that a uniform gives them the right to bully citizens.

Be thankful we don't live in Oklahoma, if this is true:

When Lonnie Tinsley's 86-year-old bedridden grandmother refused to take her medicine, he called emergency services in El Reno, Oklahoma and requested a medical technician. Instead, a dozen armed officers arrived at the scene.

According to officer Duran’s official report, Mrs Varner had taken an 'aggressive posture' in her hospital bed. In order to ensure 'officer safety', one of his men 'stepped on her oxygen hose until she began to suffer oxygen deprivation'.
Another of the officers then shot her with a taser, but the connection wasn’t solid. A second fired his taser, 'striking her to the left of the midline of her upper chest, and applied high voltage, causing burns to her chest, extreme pain', and unconsciousness. Lona was then handcuffed with sufficient ruthlessness to tear the soft flesh of her forearms, causing her to bleed. After her wounds were treated at a local hospital, Lona was confined for six days in the psychiatric ward at the insistence of the El Reno Police Department.

1 comment:

Ewarwoowar said...

Whilst I don't agree with the police policy in that instance, please stop only presenting one side of the argument. A bit of research into the case shows she was a bit more lively than your puff piece made her seem:

http://www.koco.com/news/24062424/detail.html