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The Library => Haley Center Basement => Topic started by: Buzz Killington on June 28, 2010, 12:59:00 PM
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http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/28330.htm (http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/28330.htm)
Police Said to Taze Grandmother
By TIM HULL
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(CN) - Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe, after her grandson called 911 seeking medical assistance, the woman and her grandson claim in Oklahoma City Federal Court. Though the grandson said, "Don't Taze my granny!" an El Reno police officer told another cop to "Taser her!" and wrote in his police report that he did so because the old woman "took a more aggressive posture in her bed," according to the complaint.
Lonnie Tinsley claims that he called 911 after he went to check on his grandmother, whom he found in her bed, "connected to a portable oxygen concentrator with a long hose." She is "in marginal health, [and] takes several prescribed medications daily," and "was unable to tell him exactly when she had taken her meds," so, Tinsley says, he called 911 "to ask for an emergency medical technician to come to her apartment to evaluate her."
In response, "as many as ten El Reno police" officers "pushed their way through the door," according to the complaint.
The grandma, Lona Varner, "told them to get out of her apartment."
The remarkable complaint continues: "Instead, the apparent leader of the police [defendant Thomas Duran] instructed another policeman to 'Taser her!' He stated in his report that the 86 year-old plaintiff 'took a more aggressive posture in her bed,' and that he was fearful for his safety and the safety of others.
"Lonnie Tinsley told them, 'Don't taze my Granny!' to which they responded that they would Taser him; instead, they pulled him out of her apartment, took him down to the floor, handcuffed him and placed him in the back of a police car.
"The police then proceeded to approach Ms. Varner in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she began to suffer oxygen deprivation.
"The police then fired a Taser at her and only one wire struck her, in the left arm; the police then fired a second Taser, striking her to the right and left of the midline of her upper chest and applied high voltage, causing burns to her chest, extreme pain and to pass out.
"The police then grabbed Ms. Varner by her forearms and jerked hands together, causing her soft flesh to tear and bleed on her bed; they then handcuffed her.
"The police freed Lonnie Tinsley from his incarceration in the back of the police car and permitted him to accompany the ambulance with his grandmother."
Tinsley says the cops capped it all off by having his grandmother "placed in the psychiatric ward at the direction of the El Reno police; she was held there for six days and released."
"As a result of the wrongful arrest and detention, the plaintiff Lona M. Varner suffered the unlawful restraint of her freedom, bodily injury, assault, battery, the trashing of her apartment, humiliation, loss of personal dignity, infliction of emotional distress and medical bills."
They seek punitive damages for constitutional violations, from the City of El Reno, Duran, Officers Frank Tinga and Joseph Sandberg, and 10 Officers Does.
They are represented by Brian Dell of Oklahoma City.
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Good luck with that defense. I want to be the plaintiffs lawyer in this case. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Thats it Token. You show em! Beat dat azz.
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She sat up in the bed :clap:
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Mess wit da bull, get da horn! When po po says freeze, you bettah damn well make like a fuckin' Popsicle. Fuckin' money grubbin' ole bitch!
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Mess wit da bull, get da horn! When po po says freeze, you bettah damn well make like a fuckin' Popsicle. Fuckin' money grubbin' ole bitch!
They stepped on her oxygen hoses until she couldn't breathe? Hard ass mofo's in Ok.
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They stepped on her oxygen hoses until she couldn't breathe? Hard ass mofo's in Ok.
Remember this phrase: "The force necessary to effect a lawful arrest".
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Remember this phrase: "The force necessary to effect a lawful arrest".
Remember this math problem...Punitive Damages + Infliction of emotional distress = $$$ rape face.
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All I want to know is how come we can't get any damn video of this?
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http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/28330.htm (http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/28330.htm)
There has got to be more to this story.
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There has got to be more to this story.
Police would never do anything like that? Good thing the taser didn't cause the O2 to go kaboom.
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this incident happened in December 2009
according to the police report she pulled a knife on the officers and threatened to kill them
http://www.koco.com/news/24062424/detail.html (http://www.koco.com/news/24062424/detail.html)
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The report said that Varner pulled out a knife and said, '"If you try and get the knife, I will stab you and kill you. I killed four Japs in World War II and I would not bat an eye killing you."
My grandmother had nothing but the utmost respect for the Jewish community. When I was a kid she told me to always treat the Jewish kids with the utmost respect, or they'd put the sheni curse on me.
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The report said that Varner pulled out a knife and said, '"If you try and get the knife, I will stab you and kill you. I killed four Japs in World War II and I would not bat an eye killing you."
And ten cops couldn't contain her to get the knife out of her hand, so they thought..."what the Hell, let's taze grammy"?
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And ten cops couldn't contain her to get the knife out of her hand, so they thought..."what the Hell, let's taze grammy"?
Look at those eyes Buzz shes hopped up on oxygen, I bet she got all retard strong on them.
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And ten cops couldn't contain her to get the knife out of her hand, so they thought..."what the Hell, let's taze grammy"?
Taser = Easy Button...Cops don't have to think anymore, don't have to use any people skills, just give orders, and Taser anyone that doesn't move fast enough, whether they're drunk, high, crazy, retarded, crippled, or 90 years old and confined to a bed on O2.