Texas Cop Tasers a Great-Grandmother
After pulling over a speeding driver, a Texas deputy decided he wasn't getting the proper level of cooperation and used his Taser gun. Perhaps he didn't realize he was dealing with a 72-year-old woman half his size.After pulling over a speeding driver, a Texas deputy decided he wasn’t getting the proper level of cooperation and used his Taser gun. Perhaps he didn’t realize he was dealing with a 72-year-old woman half his size.
The scene was captured by the deputy’s dash camera:
Local news has the aftermath:
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