82-year-old Tasered by Chicago policeUPI
Nov. 6, 2007
CHICAGO, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The Chicago Police Department is reviewing whether proper procedures were followed in the Tasering of an 82-year-old grandmother.
Officers arrived at the home of Lillian Fletcher, 82, Oct. 29 for a "well-being" check requested by the city's Department of Aging. However, Fletcher refused to allow the police to enter her home and the officers pushed their way through the slightly open door, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday.
The officers said Fletcher attempted to attack them with a hammer before she was subdued by a Taser-wielding police officer.
"My grandmother is easily confused," Traci Taylor, Fletcher's granddaughter, told the Sun-Times. "She probably didn't know what was going on."
1 comment:
Glad I don't live in Chicago if their officers(plural) can't subdue an 82 year old woman without a taser. Makes yo scared to grow old. Alice
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