The Liberal press is once again hounding the blue-uniformed heroes that preserve the fabric of this great land. Today's call to arms involves the use of tazers, electric stun devices meant to incapacitate assailants whilst preserving the peace. Police departments nationwide have invested in tazers and tazer training as a means to segway from handgun violence and allow for officers to make arrests in an efficient fashion. But recently, several tazer episodes have become part of the public record, and the liberal media is once again twisting the facts to support their agenda.
Never was this more evident than in the coverage surrounding the Seattle woman who was tazered when she refused to sign her speeding ticket. Here are the "unspun" facts:
- A mom had just dropped her child off at school.
- She was clocked by a police radar gun travelling 32 mph in a 20 mph zone.
- She refused to sign the speeding ticket presented to her.
- The officer wisely called for backup before the situation escalated.
- Upon further refusal to sign, officers attempted to lawfully arrest her for failing to sign the ticket.
- The officer brandished a 50,000 volt stun gun and gave a demonstration of its power to the woman who was unwilling to exit her car.
- The stun gun was then applied to her thigh and neck.
- The woman was safely incapacitated and the officers made a quick and efficient arrest.
- TKID 4 has nominated these officer-heroes for commendation.
What the left-wing press wants you to believe is that this woman was eight months pregnant and that officers abused their powers of arrest when they repeatedly tazered her. They want you to think that the South Precinct, Seattle fire medics who examined Brooks, confirmed she was pregnant and recommended she be evaluated at Harborview Medical Center were somehow in a better position to judge the pregnancy status of the assailant than the responding officers.
A police spokesman rightly defended the officer heroes' response to the situation when he stated, "Why use a Taser in a simple traffic stop? Well, the citizen has made it more of a problem. It's no longer a traffic stop. This is now a confrontation."
Instead of making these officers out to be mindless thugs, a responsible media outlet should highlight the real problems this story exposes. Why did it take repeated tazer applications to subdue this criminal? Why are we allowing our officers to go out on patrol with low-voltage tazers?
