Don't tase me 2
So what is illegal about leaving your credit card. With an emergency phone call sounds more like distracted.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/353206.html
DAYTONA BEACH --
(AP) -- A police officer used a stun gun to zap a yoga instructor who yelled at her in a crowded department store, drawing questions about the non-lethal weapon's use.
Elizabeth Beeland, 35, went to a Daytona Beach Best Buy on Nov. 26 to purchase a CD player for her father. Her attorney said she stepped outside the store when she received an emergency call about her daughter, leaving her credit card behind.
A store clerk suspected Beeland was using a stolen card and called over Daytona Beach Police Officer Claudia Wright, who was investigating a separate call at the store.
When Wright approached Beeland, she became ''verbally profane, abusive, loud and irate,'' Wright wrote in a report.
In a video posted on The Daytona Beach News-Journal Web site, Beeland is seen backing away and avoiding Wright before crumpling to the ground after being hit with the Taser's 50,000 volts.
She was then arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting a police officer without violence -- both misdemeanors.
The newspaper said the department used a Taser 10 times in November, but Beeland was the only person stunned who wasn't acting violently or fleeing.
Beeland's attorney, William Chanfrau Jr. said he is reviewing the incident and declined further comment. State prosecutors are still reviewing whether to pursue the case.
Amnesty International and American Civil Liberties Union representatives criticized the use of a Taser on Beeland, saying yelling at an officer is not illegal and other methods could have been used.
Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood defended his officer's actions and she was not punished in any way. Beeland was refusing an officer's orders, and if not for the Taser, the officer may have had to use other weapons.
''I was never raised on Tasers,'' Chitwood told The News-Journal. ``I used nightsticks and slapjacks.''
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/353206.html
DAYTONA BEACH --
(AP) -- A police officer used a stun gun to zap a yoga instructor who yelled at her in a crowded department store, drawing questions about the non-lethal weapon's use.
Elizabeth Beeland, 35, went to a Daytona Beach Best Buy on Nov. 26 to purchase a CD player for her father. Her attorney said she stepped outside the store when she received an emergency call about her daughter, leaving her credit card behind.
A store clerk suspected Beeland was using a stolen card and called over Daytona Beach Police Officer Claudia Wright, who was investigating a separate call at the store.
When Wright approached Beeland, she became ''verbally profane, abusive, loud and irate,'' Wright wrote in a report.
In a video posted on The Daytona Beach News-Journal Web site, Beeland is seen backing away and avoiding Wright before crumpling to the ground after being hit with the Taser's 50,000 volts.
She was then arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting a police officer without violence -- both misdemeanors.
The newspaper said the department used a Taser 10 times in November, but Beeland was the only person stunned who wasn't acting violently or fleeing.
Beeland's attorney, William Chanfrau Jr. said he is reviewing the incident and declined further comment. State prosecutors are still reviewing whether to pursue the case.
Amnesty International and American Civil Liberties Union representatives criticized the use of a Taser on Beeland, saying yelling at an officer is not illegal and other methods could have been used.
Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood defended his officer's actions and she was not punished in any way. Beeland was refusing an officer's orders, and if not for the Taser, the officer may have had to use other weapons.
''I was never raised on Tasers,'' Chitwood told The News-Journal. ``I used nightsticks and slapjacks.''
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We don't do that sort of thing in California[:D] 0
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