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March 20, 2010 – 10:03 am | by curtisshaffer1981
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Exit Speed (2008)
IMDB rating: 5.00
Plot: On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker. Forced off the road by other members of the gang, the passengers take refuge in the hell hole of an abandoned scrap yard. They use improvised weapons and sheer guts to mount a defense against the murderous bikers but, as their numbers dwindle, they realize that their survival depends on doing the unthinkable. They must go on the offensive.
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Exit Speed
Directors: Ziehl Scott
Actors: Harrington Desmond,Ward Fred,Jbara Gregory,Snell David Rees,Sowell Nick,Sifuentes Everett,White Wally,Jones Asante,Samuelson Roy,Thriller,
Who thinks police have the right to taser an elderly person and then send them off to jail?
Read this before watchthing the video
A 72-year-old woman is pulled over for speeding, then tasered and sent to jail. Kathryn Winkfein says she drives to Austin about twice a month to do her shopping. But on a Monday afternoon, a Travis County Constable deputy pulled her over, on her way back to Granite Schoals.
"Due to being a construction zone, and workers being present," Pct. 3 Constable Richard McCain said, "it was 45, she was doing 60."
Winkfein admits she was speeding in the dangerous strip of Highway 71 and Bee Creek.
"He explained to her," Constable McCain said, "sign the ticket stub, it’s not an admission of guilt. It’s a promise to appear in court. She didn’t want to. She said take me to jail."
That’s when the officer says Winkfein exited her vehicle and didn’t cooperate.
"She refused to get off the side of the road, he said to her, Ma’am, you’re under arrest. She used profanity," the Constable said. He adds she got violent, and the officer used a taser on her.
Winkfein showed FOX 7 her taser scars.
"Here and here. Two places, side by side. It’s unreal. It’s like an electric shock," she said.
A shock Winkfein believes she didn’t deserve.
"I wasn’t argumentative, I was not combative. This is a lie. All of this is a lie, pulled away from him I did not," she said, reading the arrest affidavit.
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The great-grandmother was taken to the Travis County Jail, where she was booked for resisting arrest and detention. She was released shortly after. Now, Winkfein has hired attorneys to protect her right.
When asked if it was appropriate for the arresting officer to have used a taser, Constable McCain answered "yes."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWG4IKEpc xk
The law applies to everyone. Even 72 year old grandmothers.
I followed this when it first happened. Grandma hired an attorney who insisted she was cooperative and never swore. Then the video was released, and the attorney dropped her as a client.
If you watch this video, you will see how profane and argumentative she is. You will also see she is warned several times but refuses to cooperate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbnoDkS36 Dc&feature=related
I can tell you from experience the elderly, especially women, are very fragile. Had he not used the taser, she may have wound up with a broken bone or she could have been "degloved", a condition where the skin is brittle and peels back easily when pulled.
To answer your question specifically, she was warned she could go to jail and she said "go ahead and take me to jail". The officer warned her she was going to be tased, and she said "go ahead and tase me". When you get what you ask for, you give up your right to complain.
Bruce | Jan 30, 2010
I think the police are way to taser happy. Those things should be banned. They’ve tasered innocent people and people who were committing minor crimes, sometimes to death. I’ve heard of them tasering a child for crying out loud and pregnant women. Usually for things that in the past they would’ve had to resolve in a less violent way. It’s just another tool for abuse of power.
greenjellybean | Jan 30, 2010
Didn’t read or watch but any of it, but, anyone of any age, who disobeys an officer deserves punishment. They put their lives at risk for you. If you don’t like it you can leave.
Twiztid | Jan 30, 2010
He was right and justified. Although it is sad a 72-year-old had to be tazed, she walked towards the officer in a threatening manner, was aggressive, cussed and was being passive-aggressive. TO BE PASSIVE, the police have the right to use a tazer. She should have listened and obeyed the officer, failing to do so results in a resisting arrest charge. The old woman was in the wrong, not the officer.
@Taz - You do realize police officers have to be tazed before being issued one, right? You realize they have to do the same thing with pepper spray and mace, right? They already know what it feels like.
Zach | Jan 30, 2010
It’s better than being beaten senseless with a truncheon. I have no doubt she was belligerent. Sorry, I believe the officer. I wonder if she was also intoxicated.
George S | Jan 30, 2010
Even old people lie when they want to. Resisting is the same for everyone, do what you are told or suffer what happens, including taser.
Show how bright she is look at what she said: "It’s unreal. It’s like an electric shock," she said."
dud…..
Carl P | Jan 30, 2010
Having seen a few older people very angry and totally out of control I think the officer may have been justified.As we get older some of us get calmer and others just the opposite maybe it’s a medical thing.
Rob Roy | Jan 30, 2010
the police can and do anything they like as they know how to use the law to there advantage.
id love to get my laser gun and give em a tatse of there own blooming medicine,i bet they would will think twice about tasing a earthling/alien.
Taz | Jan 30, 2010
Well I’ll tell ya when pigs (yes cops like that are pigs) have to taser elderly women and as I have read in the news, girls even as young as 6 and 10 have been tasered and/or cuffed, I really start to wonder about their mental state….Really I tend to think they are unstable, dominating, compensating for shortfalls elsewhere or just plain wingnuts that need to be stripped of a badge and gun….Awww was she to tough for the poor policeman?
loreupnorth | Jan 30, 2010
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