Now You Can Get Tased for Common Courtesy?
Elizabeth Beeland was a holiday shopper who stepped out of a Best Buy to talk on her cell phone, forgetting her credit card at the cashier’s desk. The ever-vigilant Best Buy clerk, surprised by Beeland’s beeline for the door, suspected she was fleeing the scene after using a stolen credit card, and called over a police officer to confront her.
According to the police report that officer Claudia Wright filed, when Wright confronted Beeland outside the store, Beeland was “verbally profane, abusive, loud and irate.” After warning her to calm down or face arrest, Wright shocked Beeland with a Taser. Security video of the incident shows Beeland backing away and trying to avoid the officer, then falling to the gcircular as the Taser strikes.
Officer Wright was not disciplined for using the Taser on Beeland. The Chief of Police defended Wright, saying that Beeland was disobeying an officer’s orders and that the Taser was a better alternative to another weapon.
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