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Winkfein, who was driving 60 miles instead of the limit of 45 mph, refused. Though the speed limit on
that stretch of the road was normally 60 mph, however, road works were apparently taking place, - and
were all experienced how long these delays can go on for, and with little, or no sign of work in progress, -
and the speed limit was temporarily reduced to 45 mph. Now it doesn‘t matter what she might have said,
she at no time caused any danger to the burly sized police officer, before he callously decided to Taser the
poor defenceless old women.
A similar incident in Utah in 2007 between a state trooper and a motorist named Jared Massey also
resulted in a Tasering after the driver declined to sign a speeding ticket. In that case, the officer escalated
the matter to a violent conclusion even though Utah law ―doesn't actually require a signature‖. Texas law
apparently follows the same reasoning, considering the signature merely a promise to appear in court, not a
necessity for the validity of the ticket itself. Jared Massey, the Utah motorist, was ultimately awarded
$40,000 as compensation for the abuse he suffered at the hands of Trooper Jon Gardner.
In the UK - July 2007 a policeman Taser gunned Nicholas Gaubert an innocent diabetic man who so
happened to have gone into a state of unconsciousness one day whilst travelling on a bus, the bus driver
had called the police because the passenger was ignoring him. When the West Midland police officer
arrived the man continued to ignore them, as would most people being in a state of unconsciousness, which
this fellow was, so what did the police do? That‘s right, the police officer Taser gunned the poor bloke,
whilst another officer put a gun to his head, he was unconscious so clearly wasn‘t a threat, nevertheless
two 20mm-long metal barbs attached to plastic-coated copper wires shot instantly and noiselessly from the
barrel, the hooked barbs penetrated his cotton shirt and embedded themselves in his skin. For five seconds
there was a crackling noise as the electricity shot down the wires and discharged into his body. Gaubert‘s
body went into uncontrollable muscle spasms and he fell from his seat then landed face down on the floor
with one hand under his body. The police officer shouted again for him to show his hands, but he still
didn‘t move; so the officer pulled the trigger for a second time, delivering another wave of 50,000 volts of
electricity that tore into this bloke‘s body.
This totally unnecessary behaviour just goes to show you the mentality of these kinds of police officers,
dangerous men, licensed to do as they please. Eventually they got hold of Gaubert, put him in handcuffs
and into the back of a police van - which is when he regained consciousness and was able to shout that he
needed urgent medical attention, and he was then taken to Leeds General Infirmary. ―I shudder to think
what could have happened if I hadn‘t come round‖, said Gaubert. – ―They would have put me in a cell and
I would probably have died. I showed no aggression - I was unconscious and unable to respond to their
demands. I think they just saw it as an opportunity to try out their toys‖. - Gaubert is believed to be the
first person in the UK to obtain compensation for being shot with a Taser gun.
However no such apology has been received by an 89 year old war veteran who in 2009 became the
oldest person in the UK to be stunned with a Taser gun. Three weeks before this incident, the poor old
man, a retired carpenter had just gone into a residential home for the elderly in Llandudno, North Wales.
But the confused old man obviously disoriented with his unfamiliar surroundings, just wanted to return to
his family home, only a few minute‘s walk away, so decided to climb out of a window of the care home
and wandered the empty residential streets clutching a shard of glass. At 6.30am a police officer knocked
him to the ground with a 50,000-volt Taser charge. Police later said their officers feared he would commit
suicide [so we thought were kill him!], using the broken glass. But the pensioner‘s sister-in-law told a
reporter from Live: ―He was frightened to death and was hiding behind cars. He told us that he held a
piece of glass to his throat because he was afraid of the police - he wanted to keep them away‖. He said
afterwards: ―I would never have cut my throat‖. - And that when he was hit by the Taser the pain was
terrible. He fell to the floor and was handcuffed. It‘s awful that the police should end up shooting an old
gentleman of his age. - His daughter-in-law adds: ―They treated him like an animal. They should have
talked him out of it. That's what they would have done in the past: talked to him, not shot him‖! The
family complained, but the IPCC backed the decision to use the Taser against the old man.
In the UK, Tasers were fired, or as police chiefs pathetically prefer to call it; deployed, even their
language is becoming Americanised, - 1,765 times between April 2004 and June 2009, that‘s an average of
29 times a month. – Between Stun gun officers, they use the term ―sparking up‖ as opposed to ―deploying‖
or firing it, oh well, boys will be boys. Since being introduced in April 2004 Tasers have been used in
more than 5,400 incidents in England and Wales, [3] and on the 19/3/2009 Home Secretary Jacqui Smith
announced Police forces are to receive over 6,000 new Tasers guns, with funding for an additional 10,000.
This follows the first wave of Tasers from the £8 million new funding made available to support a national
roll-out of Tasers to specially trained police response officers. The roll-out across England and Wales to
extend the use of Tasers beyond dedicated firearms officers to specially trained police response officers