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//// ...and yes, it's in the U.S. ////

.... to be honest, I wouldn't have expected it to be anywhere else!!!!

Yes she had a knife, so could be seen as a potential threat; but she was 87 years old, 5 feet tall and spoke very little English.
The mind boggles ........
I'm going to Georgia on Monday- oh joy :/
What has age got to do with it?
If one decides the situation needs help from a taser......then so be it.
think your average 5 feet tall 87 year old lady even with a knife is reasonably easy to disarm Sqad, I think this was an error of judgement.
Have to say I have met one or two old ladies a taser probably wouldn't have stopped. But in this case it seems like police stupidity in the US yet again
What has height got to do with it?.......she had a knife.
If he needed a taser against an 87-year-old woman, he needs to find a more suitable job.
Luckily, if the old lady had managed to wrestle the taser from cop-1...cop-2 was on hand to shoot her.
he could have called in a swat team for back up
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3 officers..most likely big, burly men. And one tiny woman... literally half their size. Maybe a bit of common sense was in order. Was she resisting? No...she just didn't comprehend what was going on. She had a gun pointed at her. And then she was arrested. The mind boggles.
//// Luckily, if the old lady had managed to wrestle the taser from cop-1...cop-2 was on hand to shoot her. ////

I think a 3rd officer should have been there just in case .....
You never know, if she'd got that taser from cop 1, she might have tasered cop 2 .... so cop 3 would then have to shoot her. Might as well play it safe and make it a head shot as well .... it is the US after all :P
Look on the bright side, she could have been shot .
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Giz...there *was* a third officer.
According to another report, she has dementia. The initial call to the police indicated she was not exhibiting threatening behaviour...so why the over reaction by the officers?
//// Giz...there *was* a third officer. ////
Yea I realised after I'd posted :(

Just as well there was a 3rd officer ..... just in case eh ??
Knives don't kill dandelions, little old ladies with knives kill dandelions !

Clearly the only alternative would have been to shoot her and stop this weed genocide.
Kval pls head a street protest for this lady so she gets huge compo.

enjoy georgia
If she'd been in the US for decades, as is stated in the article, how come she spoke such limited English?

I personally think there's a lot more to this than meets the eye.
I found the way the call went rather interesting, I have to wonder what the Officers who were sent were told.

//"There's a lady walking on the bike trails, she has a knife and she won't leave," the caller told a dispatcher. "She told me she doesn't speak English, and she's walking up the trail with a knife towards me."
"It looks like she's walking around looking for something, vegetation to cut down or something. She has a bag too," the caller said.
The Boys and Girls Club employee told the dispatcher that the woman did not seem to be a threat. "But she came at you with a knife, though, right?" the dispatcher asked. "No, she just brought the knife onto the property in her hand, she didn't try and attack anybody or anything," the caller said.//

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/16/us/georgia-police-taser-woman-dandelions-knife/index.html
///The daughter-in-law also said Al-Bishara has dementia and speaks Arabic.///

This would certainly add to the confusion and I believe that the police officers were heavy-handed in their approach.
Personally,I think the last paragraph in the link sums it up, stated by an ex policeman.

"It was a ridiculous turn of events,” he told The Daily Citizen-News. “If three police officers couldn’t handle an 87-year-old woman, you might want to reconsider hanging up your badge.”

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