Deputy Not Indicted For Tasing 72yo Woman

[MJS]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36126556/ns/us_news/

AUSTIN, Texas - A deputy constable who shocked a 72-year-old woman with a Taser after she dared him to use the stun gun during a traffic job was cleared Wednesday by a grand jury.
A Travis County grand jury declined to indict Deputy Constable Christopher Bieze on a charge of injury to an elderly person.
Bieze used a Taser on Kathryn Winkfein on May 11 after she refused to sign a traffic citation after he stopped her for speeding on Texas 71 west of Austin. Video from a camera mounted in the deputy's car captured the 4-foot-11 Granite Shoals woman struggling with Bieze and daring him to use the Taser on her.

 

[Cryozombie]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36126556/ns/us_news/

Well... she did sorta ask him to do it.

 

[72ronin]

Cost his employer 40 000 dollars.. and has to put up with granny jokes for a long time to come.. Guess he got the biggest shock after all

hahaha

 

[David43515]

I feel sorry for LEOs ever since the Taser came out. They`re damned if they do and damned if they don`t. If they Tase someone all they hear is how unnessesary it was and what a cruel escalation of force it is. But if they don`t use it, and someone gets injured by being manhandled to the ground or into the car all they`ll hear is how they shouldn`t have to lay a hand on anyone because they have a taser. It`s a no win situation even if you don`t factor in the Officer`s safety.

 

[Daniel Sullivan]

People should be careful what they wish for. And a senior citizen is definitely old enough to know better. And I'd be willing to bet that she'd be the first to rail about how young people don't know the meaning of respect.

Daniel