Woman Tasered At Best Buy! For Buying a cd player!

I can see no "right" person in this. Which will undoubtedly brand me as something horrible to some of the posters here.

Yeah, that woman stepped outside and took a call. She should have said something or excused herself. But if she flies off the handle at a cop, I can see her getting arrested on public disturbance charges. Although I do believe she has the right to express her frustrations. Cursing at a cop doesn't make you a criminal. The officer states she wasn't acting violently. But she was a disturbance.

The cashier with calling over the cop? Well, there's not enough there but yeah I can see both ends of things.

The cop though? There's only one thing in that article that disturbed me.

"The entire confrontation inside the store took less than a minute, the tape shows."

Didn't she say she could arrest her and possibly be tasered? Seems like she skipped the first step. The article even said the woman was backing away when the cop advanced. I do think she was a little quick on the draw, but then again none of us were there.
 
[quote name='CocheseUGA']What's up with Floridians?[/QUOTE]

Dude.. you ain't seen nothin' till you're down in Daytona Beach during bike week. 50 year old toothless women with mullets+plentiful Natural Light+easy to remove leather vests= sights better left unseen :)
 
[quote name='yukine']She was resisting arrest, of course she got tased. Isn't that standard procedure?[/quote]
[quote name='yukine']She was being arrested for public disturbance and was being non-compliant with an officer (resisting arrest).[/quote]
She wasn't resisting arrest. She was threatened with arrest or tasering if she didn't calm down, and when she didn't, she got the taser. The arrest came afterward, and she wasn't even charged with resisting arrest. She was charged with disorderly conduct and "resisting a police officer without violence" because she had refused to calm down and stop yelling at the officer. That's a different charge from resisting arrest.
 
I think cops are getting a bit lazy with the stun guns. Seems they'd rather just taze someone to make them stfu then to actually make an effort to understand what is going on. You can say she deserved it, but if you were the one getting shocked i'm sure you'd feel differently.
 
This is a tough call for me. The tasering seems a little extreme but on the other hand the lady sounds like a real douche. Although last time I checked being a douche was not a good enough reason to taser someone.
 
[quote name='YoshiFan1']I have been collecting $2 bills from work, everytime we get one I swap it out with 2 $1 bills and keep the $2 bill. Once I get a decent amont (up to 7 so far), I am tempted to go to a Best Buy and spend them all at once but I am afraid the same thing could happen (considering it is Best Buy)[/QUOTE]

if you wanna be abig jerk you can buy a bunch of $2 bills from the gov't and they come on long sheets with perforated edges. bring the sheets up to the counter and rip off a couple of $2 bills in front of them :D
 
[quote name='Lord_Kefka']
Yeah, that woman stepped outside and took a call. She should have said something or excused herself. [/quote] Right here is where the situation could have been avoided. People are so self-absorbed in their crap that they don't pay attention to the people they are interacting with around them (this includes drivers on the road, not just face-to-face). If she got a disturbing phone call from home, how hard would it be to quickly tell the cashier, "I'm sorry there's an emergency at home I'm just going over here for a minute." and then proceed to move over or outside. You can't just suddenly run away when you are in the middle of something, especially a transaction, that's grounds for "suspicious behavior".

But since it got this far, all she had to do was explain to the cop about the call and complied with the officer's instructions. Taser use was probably going too far in this situation, but people bring drama upon themselves.
 
I don't know if any of you are car people but there is a show in the UK (I'm in the US) called Top Gear and in one episode they go to america and start in florida... Needless to say it's shown me why I won't ever head east or southeast.

Anyway, here's part of the episode. xD

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuV008x4DX0[/media]
 
[quote name='elmyra']She wasn't resisting arrest. She was threatened with arrest or tasering if she didn't calm down, and when she didn't, she got the taser. The arrest came afterward, and she wasn't even charged with resisting arrest. She was charged with disorderly conduct and "resisting a police officer without violence" because she had refused to calm down and stop yelling at the officer. That's a different charge from resisting arrest.[/quote]

Yes, I realize that Elmyra. But I had to keep it short and simple for the "lol but she didn't do ne thing dar dee dar!" person.
 
*asking without reading every page*

Did she mention why she left prior to the incident or did that part only come to light AFTER the fact?
 
[quote name='VipFREAK']I don't know if any of you are car people but there is a show in the UK (I'm in the US) called Top Gear and in one episode they go to america and start in florida... Needless to say it's shown me why I won't ever head east or southeast.

Anyway, here's part of the episode. xD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuV008x4DX0[/QUOTE]


LOL Oh man that was rich!
 
[quote name='Will']*asking without reading every page*

Did she mention why she left prior to the incident or did that part only come to light AFTER the fact?[/quote]

No, because that would have made perfect sense.

Duh.
 
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