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Keith B wrote:

Cajundude wrote:

Oldgringo wrote:

Cajundude wrote:

Just because you are old should not excuse you from being an, well, pain.

I take it that you've never been old...yet?

Not really, only 38. However, the officer would be in trouble for touching the female, or letting her run into traffic so he is in a Catch 22.

I disagree. Officers can, and do, touch females if needed. Just because the arrestee is female doesn't mean they can't be subdued if the person or officers safety comes into play. Pushing a person or wrestling them to the ground is required sometimes, male or female. In this case, the dash cam shows the officer played it by the book and there was no inappropriate physical contact.

When I was a LEO we had a couple of females (and they were NOT ladies) in the area that could probably have taken me in a fair fight. The Mag-Light Shampoo worked on one of them one night, but it was administered by a lady officer. However, I wouldn't have hesitated to shampoo her myself if there was a need to do so.

I nightsticked a Wave once, on shore patrol in the Navy. Seems she objected to one characterization or another, either of her or the place she was hanging out, and she was doing an admirable job of setting a precedent for a "Roadhouse" movie brawl when we arrived. She gave my partner a shove when he approached her about calming down and coming outside to discuss matters, and then she turned on me. I gave her a shot in the solar plexus with the butt end of my stick, which was NOT one of those with the neat metal knob on the end but it was longer than average, and then a swing to the back of the knee took her to the floor, where we fitted her with a nice new set of silver bracelets.

We had been taught, in Shore Patrol training, not to use a nightstick to the head unless and until it was a last resort, life or death, situation.

I can assure you that we had no ulterior motives in the way we handled her and that we would have handled any other sailor of either gender in the same manner under the same circumstances, but that didn't stop her from complaining to the duty Chief. The complaint went no farther than that, and she spent the night in the Newport brig drunk tank.

Russell wrote:You know, I'm going to play the opposite side here and say that if you are dumb, and out of control enough, to dare an officer to tase you, you deserve to get tased.

... but I guess you can't fix stupid.

She worked real hard to convince the officer that she needed to be tased.

IMO her age and size should not be that much of a determining factor, she wasn't frail, she was speeding, and she didn't seem to be very rational. What if, instead of just trying to get in her truck and leave, she was merely trying to get to her gun so she could respond to the officer in what she considered to be a proper manner.