'Don't Taze My Granny!' <http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/60261.html>
Posted by William Grigg <mailto:wngr...@msn.com> on June 25, 2010 08:03 AM Lonnie Tinsley of El Reno, Oklahoma <http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/TaserGranny.pdf> made a nearly fatal mistake last December 22 when he went to check on his grandma, Lona Vernon. Concerned that Lona hadn't taken her medications, Lonnie called 911 in the expectation that an emergency medical technician would be dispatched to the apartment to evaluate the bedridden 86-year-old woman <http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/06/24/28330.htm>. Instead, that call for help was answered by nearly a dozen armed tax-feeders employed by the El Reno Police Department. Understandably alarmed --- and probably more than a little disgusted --- by the presence of uninvited armed strangers in her home, Lona ordered them to leave. This directive, issued by a fragile female octogenarian confined to a hospital-style bed and tethered to an oxygen tank, was interpreted as "aggressive" behavior by Officer Thomas Duran, who ordered one of his associates : "Taser her!" Read the rest and be horrified: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/60261.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]