Comments on: Tasered Ohio Woman Describes Agony

Police Video Shows Her Being Stunned Even After She Was Handcuffed, In Back Of Cruiser

[thatsjarrod]

I''ts funny to me that in the last week we''ve seen 2 white people getting tased on You-Tube, and the whole world freaks out! Yet i guarantee if it was a black guy resisting arrest in the same manner in which she was throughout the tape you''d think he got exactly what he deserved. Where do you folks get the notion that when a cop tells you to do something, it''s optional? For example, (officer)"PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!" (gill) "nah i''m too busy hiding out drunk in some strangers car." There must have been 100-people in the bar that night, how come 99-of them made it home without taser burns? She sits on TV like little Miss Innocent, GIMME A FRIGGIN BREAK!! And i love how she keeps playing up the 38-year-old mother angle! I must have missed the memo but is motherhood currently defined as being a drunken idiot who gets kicked out of a bar because of her loud mouth, then ends up in the back of a police cruiser trying to kick out the windows?! Wow, when are the mom of the year nominations due out? Somebody get me a ballot! I agree with kwark1''s comment. I too am sick of hearing people whine about taser''s. Let''s get back to using bullets! Next time, slow down on the Jack Daniel''s there honey, save that cash to remove the tramp stamp you undoubtedly have placed strategically your lower back.

[easy610]

Puuhlez! I guess if you don''t listen, you get tasered. These "poor people" getting tasered CONTINUE to no obey commands. We have a police force for a reason. If you are given a command, you should FOLLOW it. Its not like he said "strip now!" or "give me your wallet!"

Time and time again people want to make excuses or apologize for BAD BEHAVIOR.

When interacting with the police let me give you a clue...YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL, THEY ARE. And as a society we give them that right and power. If you don''t like it, leave or work politicall to get police powers suspended. Otherwise QUIT WHINING!!

Oh and for the record I ahev been tasered. It ain''t that bad. It sucks for a few seconds, but when its over its like it never happened. Not that you want to repeat it, but it isn''t this catastrophic event...GOD! This country is becoming such a buynch of whinny victims..."oh I''m a victim give me money...Oh I''m a victim thos emean police told me to move and I didn''t want to...."

Whew! OK, I''m better now....are you?

[klingon69]

But republican7, again, not defending, but how was he to know she wasn''''t armed when she refused to get out of the car to begin with - to reiterate, I''''m not trying to get into a pi$$ing contest with anyone, just posing it from both pov, in everyday situations of officer vs assailant
Posted by sbbm at 05:59 PM : Sep 25, 2007

Regardless of whether he thought she might be armed, that was in no way a reason for him to become so abusive toward her. I know from personal experience that dsome cops are bullies, they get off on their power and will either abuse it, or get pretty *** close to the limit. If he didn''t have a taser, does that mean he would''ve beaten her unconcious with his baton, or just shot her?
I do agree with another poster about a govt civil rights/grievences committee to look into allegations against police/sheriff/law enforcement aencies across the US. Who knows how many persons have been locked up after admitting something they didn''t do to stop the cops from berating them and torturing them. If you don''t believe it happens, you re fooling yourself.

[more4mollie]

Well i suggest you watch Inside Eidtion! It clearly shows another woman tazered by the same Officer. Thats sad that a four min. video was not enough for our society!!!!

[kwakr1]

Maybe tasing her was wrong. Probably he should have just shot her. Quicker and cleaner and she''ll learn that getting drunk and fighting after a wedding is inappropriate for middle-aged single mom.
Why do I suspect that Heidi isn''t the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree?

[michellem99-2009]

TASER GUN IS INHUMANE...Yer ever pepper mace a dog...I know someone that did that years ago..That dog was pissed and never forgot that person..That same thing happens with persons. I heard they get pissed..There are smart asre cops looking to bully persons just cos that power trip of a badge..They are out there. They abuse their police powers. Not all do..It is worse today..Yer never know what state of mind that cops are in..Some just are not playing with a full pack of cards..nice to yer face and then turn on yer. That gun they wear their going to use it co they got too power. I scared of them as a handicapped person as that taser would surely kill me. Officer safety..Yer mean Officer force their will on others. They abuse others and get a sexual thrill..Some abuse just co they can and cover it up. They are high and mighty cops..Oh yes.. The golden rule. Punks or some are with a badge.

[rucc1]

In response to mrmcvein''s comment on this incident. It appears to me from the beginning of the tape that the officer never even entertained the thought of using Pepper spray, Mace what have you. You haven''t been tased before probably never even been Maced before but let me tell you, the pepper sprays that they have out now, I promise you would have incapacitated this woman. That is if is deployed right. With respects to her being tased again in the back of the vehicle just for kicking the back door window, which by the way can be replaced with your tax dollars, this was totally uncalled for. I have had someone kick at my back window before when I was in law enforcement and the course of action for that is to take her out of the car and hog tie her... that means you run a strap from her ankles to her handcuffs while her hands are cuffed behind her back... people this could have been handle alot better than it was and I guess if you have never applied these types of restraints then you wouldn''t know...I mean you don''t see them tasing mentally ill patients in a hospital do you? Watch the outcome of this one. I promise you he was wrong.

[mrmcvein]

When I first saw the story, both my wife and I were in agreement about the issue. This lady NEVER seemed to lie down (during the first tasing) as ordered by the officer. I agree that the officer was excessive in that he continued tasing the woman even once she was in custody. However, as she was kicking at the back window, he did demand that she stop. I have never been tased and am not in any form of law enforcement, but do want to point out the following:

Just because a law officer is bigger and stronger than than the perpetrator does not mean that the smaller person cannot inflict painful blows. Also, it is the officer''s job to subdue the person with necessary force to prevent injury to both. I have seen people hit with pepper spray and even though they scream about what was done to them, they are still not incapacitated. I don''t think she needed to be tased as many times as she was, but I don''t disagree that tasing her initially was wrong either.

[reginaelieze]

to rucc1: My main problem was the way media can play up which ever side of the story they want too. That''s why I compared her partying to Britney''s. And just because you go to a wedding and go out with the wedding party, doesn''t mean it''s ok to get "tore up" drunk, and get into a bar fight. They keep portraying her as this pitiful little single mother. Why isn''t anyone addressing the fact that she got drunk because she chose too and got in a fight because she couldn''t restrain herself. And I do think the police officer was big enough to handle her physically or use pepper spray. But I truly believe it would have still been on the news because someone would have disagreed with that. Look, I know we''re human and we all make mistakes but we''ve got to stop excusing and pretending there''s only one side. Just because we''re made (by the media) to feel sorry for her does not mean she wasn''t wrong!

[more4mollie]

And there where so many people there watching are you guys blind