 KeepOnRockinMusic Lover ForeverPremium
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| [iPhone] Woman tasered after trying to buy too many iPhones »www.youtube.com/watch?v=xocxNw988g0
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EWTON, Mass. —
A local family says a language barrier may have resulted in police using a Taser on a woman after she tried to buy too many iPhones at a local mall. Police, however, say the incident isn't that clear cut.
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 SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
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| There is such a thing as "buying too many Iphones"?
Really?
I'd think Apple would be happy to sell thousands of phones to a single customer, granted they'd have to be shipped to you, as I doubt the store carries that many at one time, normally.
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kudos:3 | There was a two per customer limit until December 4th. Apparently this Apple store manager didn't get the memo that the policy was relaxed.
What OP failed to mention, according to the linked story, is the the store refused to sell her any phones because she had purchased two the prior week. After she observed other customers apparently leaving with more than two phones, she took a picture. That's when the manager asked her to leave and called the cops.
The issue between her and the store is a private one and I really don't care. The problem I see here is overzealous suburban douchebag cops using a taser on a small 48 year old woman. |
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| quote:
The problem I see here is overzealous suburban douchebag cops using a taser on a small 48 year old woman.
We agree on this.
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 haroldo
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kudos:1 | reply to KeepOnRockin
Maybe we can/should taser trolls? |
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2 edits | reply to Snakeoil
said by Snakeoil: quote:
The problem I see here is overzealous suburban douchebag cops using a taser on a small 48 year old woman.
We agree on this. As the Rodney King affair showed, cutting a small part of a video and releasing it to the public can be very misleading. I'm not defending nor accusing anyone, but unless we know what actions precipitated the Tasering, we can't judge.
Sure, she looks like (and probably is) a meek innocent woman, but no one knows (from watching the video) what really happened.
Everyone should have learned at a young age that police officers need to be respected. If an officer requests/demands a person to be calm, I don't care what language it's requested in...you listen. If a person continues in an aggressive or potentially violent manner (no matter how small, old or frail they might appear), they can pass a point where law enforcement officers need to escalate the situation.
Yeah, she's probably 100% innocent, but until you know what really happened...resisting arrest is resisting arrest in any language.
Jumping to conclusions can be dangerous
(if a frail woman old woman yelled "I have a bomb strapped to my chest" in a crowded shopping mall...would Tasering be justified?...we really don't know what happened) |
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kudos:1 | "This really is a criminal trespass...issue." - cop.
How under any circumstance is trying to purchase an iPhone 'criminal'?
Why isn't the Apple employee charged with 'criminal' attempted eviction? Seems just as absurd. |
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3 edits | said by Rojo:...
How under any circumstance is trying to purchase an iPhone 'criminal'? .
IMHO she wasn't arrested for trying to purchase a phone. She was most likely arrested for agitated, aggressive disorderly behavior.
She was requested to leave the store and (probably) got violent
Who knows? Maybe she yelled out "Allahu Akbar" ... or "I'm going to kill you!"
No one has every been arrested for shopping.
Millions are arrested for disorderly conduct.
Again, we're jumping to conclusions. |
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kudos:17 | reply to KeepOnRockin
Its obvious she was buying them to send back to China to sell on the black market...
Still no excuse for the tasering. |
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said by Rojo:"This really is a criminal trespass...issue." - cop.
How under any circumstance is trying to purchase an iPhone 'criminal'?
Why isn't the Apple employee charged with 'criminal' attempted eviction? Seems just as absurd.
If she was asked to leave the store and did not then she is trespassing. It doesn't matter if she was in an Apple store, a Toys R Us, or a Starbucks and it doesn't matter if she was trying to buy 3 phones or 3000. She is trespassing if she was asked to leave and she did not comply. It doesn't matter if the reason for asking her to leave is absurd.
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said by haroldo:said by Rojo:...
How under any circumstance is trying to purchase an iPhone 'criminal'? .
IMHO she wasn't arrested for trying to purchase a phone. She was most likely arrested for agitated, aggressive disorderly behavior. She was requested to leave the store and (probably) got violent Who knows? Maybe she yelled out "Allahu Akbar" ... or "I'm going to kill you!" No one has every been arrested for shopping. Millions are arrested for disorderly conduct. Again, we're jumping to conclusions. haroldo is spot on ...
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kudos:1 | I agree! |
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said by haroldo:As the Rodney King affair showed, cutting a small part of a video and releasing it to the public can be very misleading. I'm not defending nor accusing anyone, but unless we know what actions precipitated the Tasering, we can't judge.
Sure, she looks like (and probably is) a meek innocent woman, but no one knows (from watching the video) what really happened. In the video, the police chief issued a statement saying exactly what happened. If there had been mitigating circumstances bolstering his department's use of force, he would have added them there.said by haroldo:
Everyone should have learned at a young age that police officers need to be respected. If an officer requests/demands a person to be calm, I don't care what language it's requested in...you listen. If a person continues in an aggressive or potentially violent manner (no matter how small, old or frail they might appear), they can pass a point where law enforcement officers need to escalate the situation.
That's not how it works at all. If you are sitting on a park bench minding your own business, a police office can't walk up, demand you leave, and taser you for not complying. You are only required to comply with a lawful order from a police officer. This isn't some dictatorship under martial law.said by haroldo:
Yeah, she's probably 100% innocent, but until you know what really happened...resisting arrest is resisting arrest in any language.
Jumping to conclusions can be dangerous
..which is why you too should refrain from doing so. If the store, which is private property, wanted her out, that's fine. They can call the cops and they can remove her, bodily if needed. Only when she attempts to re-enter the store does it become criminal trespass.said by haroldo:(if a frail woman old woman yelled "I have a bomb strapped to my chest" in a crowded shopping mall...would Tasering be justified?...we really don't know what happened)
Obviously you have no clue how a taser works. First, the electrodes must penetrate anything the subject is wearing to contact the skin on center mass to be effective. In this situation it would be probably be foolish to taser someone with the risk of an electrical arc causing detonation.
Many moons ago, in another life, I worked in law enforcement. Right around the time the Taser was introduced. The intended use was an alternative to lethal force. That is, it should only be used in the same circumstances a gun would be. The idea was to reduce* subject death rate in lethal force situations -- NOT FOR CROWD CONTROL, SUBJECT COMPLIANCE, OR INTIMIDATION. Each jurisdiction has its own use of force policy, but the bottom line is lethal force must only be used to protect your life, or the life of another. It does not appear anyone's life was in danger here.
*I say reduce because the Taser was always known to come with a slight risk of death, particularly to those with cardiovascular health concerns. |
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| In the video, the police chief issued a statement saying exactly what happened. If there had been mitigating circumstances bolstering his department's use of force, he would have added them there.
>This was a 90 second cut and paste by the media, this wasn't the result of an official investigation. I'm not familiar with any media outlets that make sure they know the full story before airing a salacious story
That's not how it works at all. If you are sitting on a park bench minding your own business, a police office can't walk up,...
>You know what I meant, no need to spin to the extreme. In the US, if you're extremely agitated or aggressive and an officer of the law asks you to calm down, ignoring him is done at your own peril. This was clearly not an innocent bystander tasered for no reason, just because an officer wanted to have some fun…IMHO
..which is why you too should refrain from doing so. If the store, which is private property, wanted her out, that's fine. They can call the cops and they can remove her, bodily if needed. Only when she attempts to re-enter the store does it become criminal trespass.
>Nowhere in the video did anyone mention she was peaceful and minding her own business. I don't know what happened, but I have to assume the officer had probably cause (unless he's a sadistic maniac)...I'd bet she made a hysterical scene...
Obviously you have no clue how a taser works. First, the electrodes must penetrate anything the subject is wearing to contact the skin on center mass to be effective. In this situation it would be probably be foolish to taser someone with the risk of an electrical arc causing detonation.
>Come on, I'm just providing a hypothetical scenario |
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kudos:1 | said by haroldo:You know what I meant, no need to spin to the extreme.
How could anyone get as extreme as what you already posted? 
said by haroldo:Who knows? Maybe she yelled out "Allahu Akbar" ... or "I'm going to kill you!"
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| Ouch! LOL
guilty as charged!
I was speaking in broad brushes...obviously... taking a bit of poetic license (maybe too much???).
The point is still valid...no one here knows how agitated and aggressive she became...I refuse to believe cops would shoot a taser just for the fun of it....I believe there must have been a reason why officer felt it a necessary action. |
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said by HiVolt:Its obvious she was buying them to send back to China to sell on the black market...
Still no excuse for the tasering.
Once she has purchased the phones, she has any right to do whatever she wants with them. If I want to go and buy 50 unlocked iPhones, I should be able too! Why should Apple care what I do with them after I buy them? Because she's Chinese, they think she's going to sell them on the black market? That's complete racial discrimination! I hope she sues Apple big time!
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| said by fonzbear2000:Once she has purchased the phones, she has any right to do whatever she wants with them. If I want to go and buy 50 unlocked iPhones, I should be able too! Why should Apple care what I do with them after I buy them? Because she's Chinese, they think she's going to sell them on the black market? That's complete racial discrimination! I hope she sues Apple big time!
You can't send them to countries with an economic sanctions, such as Iran, Cuba, etc...
And it's not racism, its realism, especially if you dont know how huge the black market is in China for Apple stuff. And Apple only officially released the iPhone5 in China this past week, and you have to be picked in a lottery in order to get one...
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said by fonzbear2000: ...That's complete racial discrimination! I hope she sues Apple big time!
I find it offensive that people throw the "race card" at every opportunity.
That was a completely unsubstantiated allegation. It's one thing for political opportunists to throw the card, it's part of their playbook, it's another to toss it in here.
Racial bigotry doesn't appear to be the case here (although we do not have all the facts).
What support do you have for this? Did officer or employees hurl racial epithets?
It doesn't matter if it's Apple, Tiffanys or Taco Bell, if a customer is acting unruly and store personnel ask the person to leave... if they refuse, escalate the situation and create a public nuisance, store can and should call law enforcement.
I seriously doubt the employee called the police and said "hey, I have a _____ (fill in the blank) woman here...she refuses to leave ... bring a SWAT team and let's have some fun!"
Leave the sleazy race card out of this discussion.
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From the print story...
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The policy continues, "The weapon is a level of force normally required to overcome passive, defensive, or offensive resistance that is intended as an act of overt aggression toward the officer where an individual refuses to comply with verbal instructions."
You lay down, you can be tasered, you attack, you can be tasered, you defend yourself from being tasered (a natural response IMO), you can be tasered.
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