Cops taser 76 year old tractor driver in parade, riot ensues
POSTED BY: piratenews
UPDATED: Thursday, September 24, 2009 04:43
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Hotrod tractor racer Bud Grose don't take no sh1t from no stinkin cops
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Grose wanted to head directly to the town park for a tractor pull like in previous years. But the police department had a different plan, which apparently was not communicated to the tractor drivers.
An angry crowd formed as police kept ordering Grose off the tractor. Police did not arrest Bud Grose because of the tension at the scene, Sweet said.
"At the time, it was very close to having a riot right there, and that probably would have created a full-scale riot," Sweet said.
Grose's son, Mike, agreed. "There was some very good people there ready to make some bad choices that would have affected them for the rest of their lives," he said.
"That's the point it had gotten to."
Mike Grose was driving a tractor following his father and managed to catch up to see an officer about to shoot his father with a Taser. Mike Grose said he yelled at the officer not to shock his father because of a heart condition. Bud Grose underwent heart bypass surgery in 2000.
Brad Jones' 9-year-old son was riding with Bud Grose in the parade, helping steer the tractor. An officer removed the boy from the tractor before Grose was shocked with a Taser.
Police fired the Taser five times, according to a state review.
Residents are not letting the matter fade quietly. Mike Grose and his wife have printed T-shirts with a cartoonish drawing of a police officer using a Taser on a tractor driver. The caption reads "If you missed Deer Creek Days 2009, you missed a shocking experience."
www.smh.com.au/world/officers-fired-for-using-stun-gun-on-76yearold-20
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www.odt.co.nz/news/world/72456/us-town-seething-after-man-76-tasered
Funny how this American news don't make the Amerikan news...
At least the cops got fired. 23% of the police force. FTP
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Hero, Geezer, all those who think that it is OK for police to use Tasers for pain compliance - no matter that Tasers are only supposed to be an alternative to guns ...
C'mon. Show your stuff. Now's you chance to really have an impact on this debate.
Tell us why this is OK, just like it was OK for police to keep shocking a woman crawling on the ground trying to get away, or to shock an audience member who's big crime was that he talked too long ... c'mon big boys. Let us see your stuff.
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Silence is consent.
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What's great about this story is the entire town turned on the cops, ready to kill them...
And the cops getting fired.
The Revolution is near.
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