Chicago police Taser 82-year-old woman

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Chicago's Police Department is investigating an officer's use of a Taser last month on an 82-year-old woman who police say was swinging a hammer when they arrived.

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Officials with the city's Department on Aging went to her home Oct. 29 to make a welfare check and called police when they saw Fletcher in a window swinging a hammer, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Tuesday.

Officers arrived and in an attempt to subdue Fletcher, one of them used a Taser, Bond said. The department is trying to determine whether the officer violated department policy on the use of stun guns.

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Fletcher said Tuesday that officers pushed their way into her home. "They shocked me," she said. Fletcher at times sounded confused during the telephone interview. Her granddaughter Traci Taylor told the Chicago Sun-Times that her grandmother has schizophrenia and dementia.

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This discussion is going to go one of two ways. I'll have the :popcorn: ready if anybody wants to join me.

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Specifically, reply #5 and the ensuing flamejob.

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Other times, just gingerly walking atop soft, little heads.

There should be a 5 day waiting period before you can own a hammer. :sarcasm:

to take action.

The cops couldn't handle an 82 year old lady without knocking her down with a stun gun?