According to police, they received a call from a Boys and Girls club employee noting that Martha Al-Bishara is a Grandmother, 87, was walking a trail with a knife. The caller noted that Al-Bishara was not threatening anyone and appeared to be “walking around looking for something, like, vegetation to cut down or something.” She also had a bag.

According to her family Al-Bishara’s taser attack was captured on body camera footage and they were able to watch it. The family told police that Al-Bishara was simply on the property to cut dandelions with a kitchen knife—a story backed up by the transcripts of the 911 call. The bag in her hand, the description from the 911 call, and the fact that the woman never threatened anyone should’ve given officers this impression. Instead, however, a gun and a taser were pointed at her.

Being that Al-Bishara speaks Arabic, she likely did not understand the officers when they were telling her to put down the knife. According to the family, the video shows Chatsworth Police Chief Josh Etheridge pointing a gun at Al-Bishara before another officer deploys the taser striking the great-grandmother in her left breast and her stomach.

She then falls over in agony and begins sobbing as the officers move in to handcuff her. Naturally, police are standing by their decision to taser the non-threatening great-grandmother and noted that even though she never moved toward anyone with the knife that she still presented a threat.

“I completely understand and if I hadn’t been there and it would come across my desk, that is the first thing I would ask as well,” Etheridge said. “Why did we Tase an 87-year-old woman? I guess in that circumstance, I am glad I was there and saw it firsthand and understand why it occurred. An 87-year-old woman with a knife still has the ability to hurt an officer.”

The level of police brutality in America is horrendous.  The police state is building up all around us.  They are viewing everyone, even an 87-year-old woman as threats.  The way they are trained clearly plays into this.  Still so many Americans come to the defense of the police in these situations.  We are ruled by fear and the “what ifs” to a level that goes on the offense instead of trying to de-escalate situations.

“You don’t Tase an 87-year-old woman,” said great-nephew Solomon Douhne, a former Dalton Police Department officer. “She was not a threat. If anything, she was confused and didn’t know what was going on. It was a ridiculous turn of events. If three police officers couldn’t handle an 87-year-old grandmother, you might want to reconsider hanging up your badge.”

The systemic violence being perpetrated by agents of the government has done more collective harm to the American people and our liberties than any single act of terror or mass shooting.

Violence has become our government’s calling card, starting at the top and trickling down, from the more than 80,000 SWAT team raids carried out every year on unsuspecting Americans by heavily armed, black-garbed commandos and the increasingly rapid militarization of local police forces across the country to the drone killings used to target insurgents.

Cops Break Window, Drag Couple from Car After Wrongfully Accusing Them of Not Wearing Seat Belts

Below is an extremely disturbing video highlighting the level of force and violence police will go to in order to enforce a citation over an alleged seat belt violation. What’s more, according to the victims of this brutal use of force, they had their seat belts on and were falsely accused.

See Related: Children Suffering from Trauma After Cops Raid Wrong Home, Hold 9yo and 6yo Boys at Gunpoint

Antony Page and his friend Angela Fisher-Herrera were harming no one, had committed no crime and were simply travelling down the road last February to do some shopping at a local Walmart. During their trip, however, they were targeted for extortion by a New Mexico State Trooper, identified by Angela as Officer Cabanas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGIXBjM5e-w

Sadly these cases aren’t the “exception” but more the rule these days as the police state forms all around us.  Land of the free?  Pfffftttt. What a joke

Source:

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/greatgrandmother-tasered-police-picking-flowers/