Brave cop protects public from dangerous driver

island_dude · 08-14-2009, 01:14 PM

Insert Green meta tag here: Here we have yet another case of someone failing to understand directions. Thank goodness for this cop and his bravery protecting us from people like this.
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Wow. It never cease to shock me how over the top some cops are.

Link to full story with video:
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/mom_in_minivan_tasered_in_traf.html

Partial text of the article
In January, an Onondaga County sheriff's deputy pulled over Audra Harmon, who had two of her kids with her in her minivan. A routine traffic stop escalated quickly.

The deputy, Sean Andrews, accused her of talking on her cell phone. She said she could prove him wrong.

He said she was speeding. She denied it and got out of the van. He told her to get back in. She did, then he ordered her back out.

He yanked her out by the arm, knocked her down with two Taser shots and charged her with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. His rationale on the disorderly conduct charge: She obstructed traffic when she got out of the van. The speeding accusation: going 50 mph in a 45-mph zone.

The scene along Hopkins Road in Salina on the afternoon of Jan. 31 was captured by a camera on the dashboard of Andrews' patrol car. Harmon, 38, says the video is proof of police brutality.

She plans to sue the sheriff's office today, claiming Andrews was improperly trained in the use of his Taser. It's not supposed to be used to take down people who pose no threat, she said.

Andrews, 37, a deputy for four years, was taken off road patrol after the arrest and will remain in a new assignment until an internal affairs investigation is finished, Sheriff Kevin Walsh said. Walsh declined to comment because the case is under litigation. Andrews also would not comment. He makes $49,095 a year.

Harmon was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and going 50 in a 45 mph zone. The district attorney's office dismissed the charges a month later -- after watching the videotape, said her lawyer, Terrance Hoffmann. The prosecutor could not be reached for comment.

svandamme · svandamme's Garage

Maybe Chris Rock needs to make a new skit named "how not to get your as5 tazed" , for white people.

Joeaksa · 08-14-2009, 01:47 PM

Sad to see but yes, there are some that feel that the laws do not matter to them.

strupgolf · 08-14-2009, 02:25 PM

Yes, I do feel so much safer knowing that there are police like him protecting me from this Mom and possibly her "gang" hiding in the van. It's also good to know this cop graduated from the fifth grade with 'honors". Too bad he was absent on the day they taught "common sense" 101.

svandamme · svandamme's Garage

i guess they were both absent...that day..

If a cop points a tazer at you, you'de think it would make sense to be very , very compliant.. instead she still goes on about her way, trying to get in the car... wether or not the cop was a dolt that allowed things to escalate to fast is one thing, but she should have gotten the clue when the tazer was whipped out and pointed at her... I know i'de take the hint if it was handed to me.

126coupe · 126coupe's Garage

Saw her on the today show, she's a nut case and deserved what she got.
Stay in your friggin car!!!!

LakeCleElum · 08-14-2009, 03:25 PM

There's a whole generation out there than thinks NO ONE can tell them what to do.......

WilsonTC · 08-14-2009, 04:31 PM

Advice to mom's in minivans with attitudes: Stay at home, in the kitchen where you belong, and this sheet won't happen.

island_dude · 05:08 PM

I see the predictable responses here do not disappoint me. Cop stops her and starts making things up. She may be a nut case, but she was not resisting. Whatever she was doing certainly did not require that response.

The fact that the cop kept using different reasons to nail her seemed pretty lame. She was supposedly stopped for talking on her cell phone. That is not exactly murder in the first degree. The speeding ticket was for 5 over. The pathetic excuse for a cop was looking for a reason to mess with someone. He reactions were completely out of proportion for the situation.

But he taught her kids right. Taught them to respect Johnny law.