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08/08/09
what's up with not puttin the fact the old chick's got a knife in the headline or the text, hamilton?
- almost lookin like you just want to rile peeps up... like glen douchebeck who you diss for doin the same thing..
yo?
08/08/09
I've been punched, kicked, spat at, etc by quite a few elderly patients in the ER. When I did EMS I sometimes had to get these folks out of their homes onto an ambulance stretcher - and a few times that involved disarming them (knife, bat, etc.) It may be that they are demented at baseline or they may be functional until something like urosepsis intervenes and makes an elder who was previously functional temporarily whacked out of his mind.
Suggesting that she got what she deserved is like saying a 4 year old child got what she deserved if she was doing the same thing. What the cop did was unconscionable and shows she's either ill-trained or honestly chicken-shit. If you can't take down an 87 year old lady who walks with a cane (even if she has a *scaaaaary* paring knife) you shouldn't be a cop, a doctor, or a paramedic.
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Bolos would be the cats pajamas! Even cowboy roping would be a cool trick.
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Or Star Trek, but watching a cop take down an 80 year old lady is no longer in the real of sci fi.
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Live long and DON'T NET ME BRO!
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America, can we please agree to stand still while we film the atrocities around us?
08/07/09
Though what I really want to know is...why did the daughter have a steak knife in her front seat? Does the Steak & Shake drive-thru provide metal cutlery?
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Granted, a person with a knife can be dangerous but only so far as they get get within stabbing range. Clearly this old woman, walking at a snail's pace, with a cane, obviously confused, would have had no chance of hurting anyone, so long as they were out of arm's reach, and that was certainly the situation in that parking lot. Therefore, the cop escalated the situation by not trying to talk to this woman for more than the time it took to bark orders at her.
In fact the cop put herself in danger by applying the takedown because it was then that she had most chance to be cut by the knife.
Seriously, the cop who first made contact could have tried harder to convince the old lady that she was safe and no one would hurt her, let other cops try to find a relative, or just distract the old lady and then grab the knife out of her hand (easier said than done, I know, but within the realm of possible.)
That take down could have killed the old woman or broken her hip.
Really, that cop jumped the gun with excessive force.
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Sorry, having a hard time getting worked up over this. I understand she's old, I understand she's having some sort of mental issue. What do you expect the cop to do? It's not like she shot or tazed an unarmed old woman. She took her to the ground and got the knife away. Pretty textbook, if you ask me.
Also, I love how her family took her to the hospital, then claimed *afterwards* that her "hand may have been broken". Uh, what? Why don't you leave that to the experts to determine? You know, the experts where you just were? Someone's setting up a lawsuit.
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No one wants to see an old lady get taken down.
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