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Cops Taser Mentally Handicap Unarmed Woman
Cops Taser Mentally Handicap Unarmed Woman
manda Beets is 28 years old, but she still refers to herself as a child, even when discussing her own little girl, Ashley.As she recalls the events of March 21, 2005, when she was shocked repeatedly by a Knoxville Police Department Taser although she wasn't fighting with officers, she describes the experience in the plainest of terms: "It hurt. It really hurt."Beets lives in a small house on Connecticut Avenue in North Knoxville with her mother, Carol Dianna Lewis. A bout with spinal meningitis when Beets was an infant left her with a speech impediment and impaired mental functioning, problems that have kept her from striking out on her own.Lewis is anything but evasive when asked who started the chain of events that led up to the Tasing of her daughter: She did, by leading Knox County deputies on a car chase that began in Halls and ended a few minutes later in her driveway.http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2007/dec/02/unarmed-woman-shocked-repeatedly-with-taser/http://nevernwo.blogspot.com/
Daily Motion | December 3, 2007
