Daily Kos: So ugly: Florida officer tases 62-year-old woman in the back just for the hell of it

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/01/1333619/-So-ugly-Florida-officer-tases-62-year-old-woman-in-the-back-just-for-the-hell-of-it?detail=email

WED OCT 01, 2014 AT 11:06 AM PDT

After police arrived on the scene of her Tallahassee, Florida, neighborhood, 62-year-old Viola Young asked them why they were there. Told to turn around, Young did so and walked away. While walking away, at just about 2:31 in this video shot by a local resident, the officer brutally uses his stun gun to tase Young in the back. Immediately, she falls flat on her face. It's brutal.
No charges have been brought and the officer is currently on paid leave.

ORIGINALLY POSTED TO SHAUNKING ON WED OCT 01, 2014 AT 11:06 AM PDT.

ALSO REPUBLISHED BY POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY GROUP.

[gopiscrap]

1. typical fucking cop

they are all like that!

[blkmusclmachine]

2. ,

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[toddwv]

3. The only people more dangerous in Florida than its citizens are its police...

[tomm2thumbs]

4. keep watching until at least 2:26 in the video to see the shot

for those that thought the incident started before the video did

[hourglass1]

5. show me the sidewalk!

• a nation that produces millionaires and billionaires yet cannot educate and provide basic infrastructure for its citizens is a failure.
• a nation that maintains worldwide hegemony for privately held resource profits on the backs of its working class taxpayers and cannon fodder is a failure.
• an economy that produces billionaires based on the indebtedness of its citizens is a failure.
• an economy that boasts a strong financial sector alone and a nation that is hostage to its banking system that is too big to fail is, in fact, doomed to fail.
• a government responsible only to its worldwide campaign donors and not its citizens is not a government of the people.

wall street has never been more profitable - the current prosperity and growth of communist china is a product of american capitalism at the expense of america's middle class ...is it time to admit that capitalism has failed democracy?

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[Downwinder]

6. How to get a paid vacation.

[CaptainTruth]

7. So that pansy-ass cop is threatened by a 62 year old lady?

Fire his ass, he's not qualified to "protect" against much of anything ... maybe a grumpy kindergartener or a few kittens. Anything beyond that would apparently be too "threatening" to his wimpy ass.

Geez ... what bullshit!

[OldRedneck]

8. Well, you know . . .

They do need to test those Tasers now and then to make certain the equipment is working properly.

[Lenomsky]

9. wow WTF .. speechless

K&R

[davidthegnome]

10. Anyone know what was actually going on here?

I heard a man in the video saying something about people getting busted for walking in the street... where there was no sidewalk. Is that really what this incident all began over?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Cops went insane since Obama....

It's like they feel it's their DUTY to see to it the local blacks know their place.

It's like the old bit where you call the cops to report a cross burning on your lawn and the odds are the local sheriff lit the match.

[zonkers]

12. Also, we have all become instinctive citizen journalist via easy video technology.

We have come a long way from the vhs camcorder.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Not to mention social media distribution....

Thus bypassing managing editors who would bury it as a "non-story".

This is what gave us the Egypt Revolution. The fact that the revolution was hijacked is nothing new, nor will it last. Each generation is better than the last and authoritarianism is not desired by the majority.

[blackbart99]

14. It wasn't for walking in the street....

Their big crime was walking while BLACK!!!

[hedgehog]

15. !

[santroy79]

16. I dont know about that

it look like she was cussing at the cop and then put her hands on him before turning away

[deancr]

17. Cussing?

How can you tell from a visual that the woman was cussing? What I saw from the video was that the police officer reached for the woman and her hands went up, once, before she turned to walk away. At that point the police officer used unwarranted force on a woman who constituted no threat whatsoever.