72 year old great grandmother tased?!

That is outrageous!! What an A$$ he was plus a wimp. Crying shame somebody didn't take it away from him & use it on him.

Usually the police tell the person they are going to do it before it happens. I am sad to see this. Couldn't say if I really think it right or not. Any kind of violence or hurting another is not something I am comfortable with but it does happen.

Some MORON in Austin is what! Granted she was a pretty fisty old lady, but that deputy is a MORON!

for me this is a difficult situation. when i was a child i wanted to be a policeman and seeing this, is really difficult. the policeman from the start knows that it was an old lady who was driving the vehicle so atleast he must have made a different approach. old people are kinda hot tempered people so i think the police office must treat the old woman as a lady and not as a truck driver. har har har. if the police sees this as doing their job, fine. but there is more than doing the job and respect people specially the old ones. give her a ticket for she broke the law or assist her on the highway just to make sure that she wont hurt any other people while she is driving her car. but make sure that she will not drive on high ways anymore for in one way or another she might hurt herself or hurt some inocent people

I do think the woman was obnoxious but the officer was a bully who was clearly irritated with her from the get go. The video is disturbing and I don’t think the tasing was necessary, surely… I heard that tasing is safe for most people but this is an elderly woman! She was in the wrong for sure and should not get away with breaking the law but the cop went too far and could have handled the situation a lot better.

Oh my goodness I can't believe this has happened! All he had to do was handcuff her, don't you think? She can't do anything to him anyway, she's an older woman, he's taller and stronger. I don't believe tasing her was the answer. I do believe he was only doing his job but it was unnecessary to do this to her.

Wow that is really rude of that police man. I guess he doesn't deserved to be on that badge. I guess it is pretty normal for older people to get irritated easily because they are old and we should respect that whatever our position in society is. I guess that was an overkill for that policeman to taze that old lady and should be given disciplinary sanctions.

Unfortunately she was the one that kept taunting and at even point when he warned her several times she was the one who said "then tase me". While there may have been a better way it appeared as if she was going to walk into traffic...plus there were several warnings that they were gonna use the taser. Jen, I really cannot answer the question of my opinion because I am not a police officer, but I can leave you all with the rhetorical question: If, after being warned of the tased several times, then you tell them to do it, can you call it fair? The article tells you what happened: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31202935/

Being a former officer myself...I am going to weigh in on this one from a perspective that may be a little different from what you were expecting... I have watched the video. He repeatedly warned the woman that if she didn't comply, she would be zapped. When he pushed he backwards the first time, he had already asked her to step back to put some distance between them and the passing traffic. When he informed her that she was under arrest and that she needed to put her hands behind her back, she did not comply with his demands, meaning that at this point, she was resisting arrest. It looks to me like he was justified in zapping her. Would you rather he had physically taken her down to the ground and cuffed her? I think he did the right thing. If I had to criticize one thing about this, I would have to say that I would have probably been more inclined to give her a couple more chances (but not too many more) to put her hands on the hood of the patrol car once I got her back away from the road. In the end, however, if she had not complied, I would probably have zapped her too if I had the taser at my disposal. When I was an officer, we did not have tasers. In this situation, we would have had two choices...We could have sprayed her with pepper spray, which we would have been LEGALLY justified in doing, or we could have taken her to the ground physically and cuffed her. As an officer, contrary to popular belief, I did NOT have to stand there and argue with a person in this situation. Once SHE escalated the situation to the point where I told her she was under arrest (which the woman did in this case), it was my RESPONSIBILITY to get her cuffed and in the car with as little risk to MYSELF (first) and to her as possible. This office did this. He stopped the situation from escalating into a struggle that could have ended up dangerously close to passing traffic, which would have put both the officer and the old lady in danger... This officer's performance was right on in my opinion. I hope they charge this lady with the speeding ticket, and with resisting arrest as well. She had her chance to sign the ticket and then take her case to court to protest the charges, but she chose to be a b!tch, and she paid the price...

I'm sorry I am going to have to agree with the cop for doing his job. With this woman being so unruly she kinda did deserve it. She refused to sign it and sorry just because you are 72 years old doesn't mean you don't get tickets. He was only arresting her. If she wants to go and blow up on him well he had to do something. She was also pushing him out onto the Freeway/Highway. She could of not only pushed him out and killed him but could of killed herself. What was he suppose to do. He did warn her that he was going to tase her for her behaviour.

That is appalling and should not be acceptable. She could have had a heart attack or a seizure. The older you get the less your body can handle. If anything happened to her as a result of the taser the officer should be held responsible! Purrs, Catwoman=^..^= & Mija

I am sure he could of done something else. That was just un called for. He did not have a right to do that to her. Things are not getting better out there its getting worse. I have a friend who knows a cop that shot a 20 some year old in the hand and and the cop was at a bar. They didnt take his breatalizer till 3 or 4 hours later. It BS the cop got off with it and there was 2 witness is. So the kid is haveing it appealed...

I really believe that the police keep on arresting the wrong persons. I also believe that there's more criminals on the street than in jail. I really don't like it when the police start to arrest people for futile reasons.

Yea I saw that on the news the other night, man I hate how Law enforcement do people, not all but all the ones I see are either too over powering and take matter into their own hands the wrong way, we are people too. It just shows that they think since they have the "badge" they can do what ever the hell they want. It's sooo crazy some of them I cannot stand, I mean its cool they are here to protect us and enforce the laws but they treat people bad a lot of the times I don't think that lady deserved to be treated like that, regardless of age I don't think anyone should be tased what the hell is tasers for half the time they are killing people anyway....MAN

Some people are getting crazy when society is giving them a power to control people. I can imagine what he can do if given more pour...scary... I think that he should be jailed or pay huge fee for that woman, so other officers are not tempting to repeat his action...

I read about that in the paper and it said that the officer's superior felt he had acted improperly. I think he overreacted. What was she going to do, body slam him?

I saw it and the dumb bunny was resisting arrest, he was trying to get her out of traffic. Just because someone is old, if they break the law, they break the law. When I first heard about it, I was upset, until I saw the footage. Better he did that than her getting herself or him hit by oncoming traffic. All she had to do was comply and I did not see anything inappropriate from the officer.

I saw this video on the news, too, and was appalled! I think some of these officers tase waaaaay too often and without regard for what is really going on. An elderly person that poses no real threat should never ever be tased. This can pose a threat to their heart!

I doon't think that older people should be given immunity from the law BUT YOU HAVE TO BE MORE GENTLE WITH THEM!!!!!!!!!!

Was he justified in the use of the taser? Yes, she decided not to sign the ticket, so he was to put her under arrest she pulled away causing her speeding to become a case of resisting arrest, thus he had to get her under control so yes it is justifiable Was it necesary, no he did not need to resort to the taser, basic joint locks would have worked on her or even brute force to keep her hand behind her back, SHES 77 how can she over power you unless your a wimp.