I swear I am going to have to shut my computer down and turn off all electronics due to the idiotic ...stupid..and cowardly, inhumane acts I read daily.
I think if you cannot take a kitchen knife from an old Granny approaching 90 without using a Taser, then it is time to quit the force and Should not belong anywhere near a badge or lethal or non lethal weapon. Cutting dandelions with a knife? What was she supposed to do...chew them off at the stem?.. I guess they would have shot Laura from Little House dead in that field of flowers.
CHATSWORTH — “Put the knife down! Put the knife down!”
Then, “Stop!”
Then Martha Al-Bishara, 87, can be heard crying out. Taser prongs have hit her left breast and her stomach, according to her family members.
She slowly falls to the ground. Chatsworth Police Chief Josh Etheridge holsters his gun before turning Al-Bishara over and handcuffing her. Eventually, she is brought to her feet while still lightly sobbing and speaking in Arabic.
A Chatsworth Police Department officer's bodycam captured these moments on Friday. The footage was reviewed by the Daily Citizen-News, but Etheridge said it will not be released since criminal charges against Al-Bishara are pending.
The footage shows Etheridge and Officer Steven Marshall in a stand down with a woman who is holding a knife, Etheridge with a pistol aimed at the woman and Marshall with a Taser in his hands.
Etheridge, who had asked Marshall if he had his Taser with him, according to a police incident report, defended the use of the Taser on Al-Bishara, but her family members said the officers should have shown more patience with her. They said Al-Bishara was on the property cutting dandelions with a kitchen knife.
Well IMO, the fact of the matter was that she was old and confused but mostly she was probably Muslim. She spoke Arabic. One of the smart boys in blue was trying to speak spanish to her. I guess he thought she was Mexican. ( Rolls eyes). She did not understand their commands. The fact of this whole sickening episode is that the people are paid to protect and serve but are just paid cowards and thugs. They thought I guess they had got them a real live terrorist here in Amurika. I am so ashamed of this kind of thing happening in America.
I hope her family sues for abuse to the elderly. As I read the article they took her in and mug shot her and did not tell the family she had been tased. I blame the concerned citizen ( oh brave one) for calling the cops in the first place. Where is common sense and decency these days?