02-10-2006, 07:22 PM
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Cunning Runt
Location: Taking a mulligan
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At the risk of jacking my own thread, I feel compelled to add this. It reinforces my opinion that most police forces don't do enough to clean up their own ranks.
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Police Hit Grandmother With Taser Gun Five Times
Officer Said Woman Resisted Arrest
POSTED: 1:30 pm EST December 8, 2005
UPDATED: 1:51 pm EST December 8, 2005
FRANKLIN, Ohio -- A 68-year-old woman was hit with a Taser gun by police in an Ohio city five times.
The police officer in the case, a lieutenant with the Franklin Police Department, claimed that he is the victim in the case, Columbus, Ohio, television station WCMH reported.
Beverly Kidwell, 68, was in the waiting room of the police department in suburban Dayton when the incident occurred. According to police, she came into the station to be arrested for hitting her granddaughter.
Kidwell said she waited a long time in the lobby and, when she got up to leave, the officer hit her with the Taser gun.
"I don't know if he thought I was going to get up and leave or what, but he pulled his gun. I thought it was a gun. I'd never seen a Taser gun in my life and I thought, 'Oh my God. He's going to shoot me. He's going to kill me,'" Kidwell said.
The police lieutenant said she was resisting arrest, WCMH reported.
Kidwell said she was in a fetal position and unable to move when the lieutenant ordered her to get up and continued to shock her. The woman survived five jolts and had to be taken to an area hospital.
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