Joe Demko
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I guess I should start using smilies or switch to a less deadpan type of humor...
I guess I should start using smilies or switch to a less deadpan type of humor...
Most people do not look at the keys when they type. Any professional typist does not.He is always in the typing room using the type writers. There is no brail on these type writers.
A Taser is much less likely to cause injury than a standing arm bar.
And if the 71-year-old granny has a pacemaker ... ?A Taser is much less likely to cause injury than a standing arm bar.
As far as less-than-lethal force is concerned, spray and tasers are just fine, and probably preferable to smacking her with a baton. Here's the problem, though: Why bother physically restraining her at all? This is all based on the vast assumption that she needs restraining. Back off, talk a bit, and if she is still being difficult and initiates a physical attack on the city employees and/or police, then take her down just like they did. Somehow I don't see a one-eyed deaf woman being all that hard to simply back away from. As far as the info in the article, I don't see that she created an imminent threat ro herself or others. No threat, no force.called to a scene where city employees are being attacked and harassed by an emotionally disturbed person... We Have to restrain her in some fashion.
oh wait, she WAS NOT INJURED!
So we are damned if we do and damned if we don't
The running joke was that they had "Retard Strength"
do have one experience I'd bet most of you dont - a little scar from where a little old lady with Alzheimer's sliced me with a pair of scissors.