Police Taser 86-Year Old Bedridden Grandmother
Submitted by Allen Gwinn on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 11:46.
UPDATE: POLICE REPORT ATTACHED
UPDATE: NOT THE ONLY QUESTIONABLE TASER INCIDENT FOR EL RENO
According to a lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Oklahoma City, El Reno Police officers Thomas Duran, Frank Tinga and Joseph Sandberg are about to become famous.
Duran, Tinga and Sandberg are at the center of a tasering incident involving 86-year old Lona Varner, a bedridden grandmother.
According to court documents, Varner's grandson called 9-1-1 to summon medical help for his grandmother in December, 2009. Instead of paramedics, "up to a dozen" police officer showed up.
The police have a slightly different version. The police report [attached below] says police were called to the scene of a "suicidal subject who had taken unknown medication."
Officer Duran reported that Varner told officers to leave the residence and pulled a "kitchen knife" from underneath her pillow. Duran called for backup.
After other officers arrived, Duran ordered the 86-year old tased saying the bedridden woman, who is on oxygen, "took a more aggressive posture in her bed." When Varner's grandson tried to intervene, he was handcuffed and taken to a police car.
When the 86-year old woman had been subdued and disarmed by the police officers, Varner's grandson was permitted to accompany her to the hospital.
During the ordeal, the lawsuit says, Varner's oxygen line was stepped on causing her to partially suffocate. Police had to fire their tasers twice as the first shot missed the bedridden woman.
This latest taser incident is not the first for the El Reno, Oklahoma police department.
In 2008, El Reno police officers made headlines after they tasered a 53-year old man who was in severe diabetic shock. Officers thought the driver was drunk after wrestling him from his truck and failing to notice his medic-alert necklace.
There were no arrests made in connection with the latest incident.
I still cannot believe that
I still cannot believe that they did that. Totally absurd. What exactly does an "aggressive posture" look like if the poor old women was lying down? On top of tazing her, they stepped on her oxygen line? They should be charged with attempted murder! Stepping on her oxygen supply is tantamount to choking her. I can only hope that these megalomaniacs face swift justice.
She may be old, but she's *feisty* boys!!!
Right. Good story folks. Let's assume for the moment that she did pull a knife.
1) She's bedridden.
2) She needs an oxygen concentrator to breath.
You're telling me that "up to a dozen" trained police officers can't physically restrain this woman without sustaining or causing injury?
Nonsense!
These officers need to be taken out back and horsewhipped within an inch of their lives, and then fired.
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