Disabled Grandma Tasered In Bed

That seems about fair. I bet the cop’s response was warranted. Old women can be nasty!

Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn’t breathe, after her grandson called 911 seeking medical assistance, the woman and her grandson claim in Oklahoma City Federal Court. Though the grandson said, “Don’t Taze my granny!” an El Reno police officer told another cop to “Taser her!” and wrote in his police report that he did so because the old woman “took a more aggressive posture in her bed,” according to the complaint.

A more aggressive posture. Good one. Did this posture include wielding a samurai sword above her head? Did she have a glock pressed against the cheek of one of the officers? Or was her bed mechanically starting to tilt upwards so she could see who was in her room?

Lonnie Tinsley claims that he called 911 after he went to check on his grandmother, whom he found in her bed, and was unable to tell exactly when she had taken her meds, so, Tinsley says, he called 911 “to ask for an emergency medical technician to come to her apartment to evaluate her.” In response, “as many as ten El Reno police” officers “pushed their way through the door,” according to the complaint.
The grandma, Lona Varner, “told them to get out of her apartment.” The remarkable complaint continues: “The police then proceeded to approach Ms. Varner in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she began to suffer oxygen deprivation. “The police then fired a Taser at her and only one wire struck her, in the left arm; the police then fired a second Taser, striking her to the right and left of the midline of her upper chest and applied high voltage, causing burns to her chest, extreme pain and to pass out. “The police then grabbed Ms. Varner by her forearms and jerked hands together, causing her soft flesh to tear and bleed on her bed; they then handcuffed her.

Uhhhhhh. I don’t know much about the exact expectations of the words “Serve & Protect” but something tells me that these cops misunderstood some of them in this instance. There is no way this could be the actual story. It’s impossible. Unless of course it was Meth-day at the El Reno Police Department. WTF!