The police are wreckless nowadayz aint they???

DAMN.. DID THEY REALLY THINK SHE WAS A THREAT

That’s shameful.

This is sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t know if it warranted such a reaction, but if you look closely after she’s on the ground she does have what looks like a knife in her hand. But she is 80 so they could have broken her hip with that move!

This is ridiculous. It would have been extremely easy to take the knife from this elderly women who obviously had difficulty moving and was not fast on her feet. They slammed her to the ground and as a physician i am more than certain they caused some sort of intracranial bleed and or an epidural hemorrhage which depending on the severity can have long term sequelae. This is police brutality at its best and is grounds in my opinion for a law suit against the department pending her medical findings in the emergency department.

I live in Cbus not too far from this Walmart. This is sad.

This hurt my heart. I hope the officers involved are severely punished!

she an old lady. you could have held up one hand with one of the cops and use the other cop to pull the knife from her hand. What kind of police officer take out an old women like that. ther are plenty of way to handle that **** the police woman is wrong.

They really didn’t have to do that woman like that. What could someone that old really do. LAWSUIT!

granny is a gansta she was trying to shank the police!!!!!

Now Granny got the P I G scared? WTF

She had a knife. The police officer asked her to put it down and she refused. You think an 80 year old woman isn’t strong enough to stab you? You should try working in a nursing home for a while. Clearly the old woman lost her mind. The crowd in the parking lot just made it worse. I’m sure she will live to stab again.

Lord help us….what has this world come to when we have an 80 year old women have a can of whoop a** opened up on her!! Where is the shame in this woman….plus you can tell after seeing the blood the police officer was looking like oh my God what have i done:(

And in regard to her wielding a knife…. Restraint training would include working with people who have mental illness, using rubber bullets… and taking more than 10 seconds to convince a person to drop the knife.. Especially one you can outrun. People negotiate with hostages for hours.. this old lady couldn’t get 10 minutes? Who knows if she could hear well? She is 80-something. Damn.

The reality is that any adult that approaches a police officer with a weapon of any sort is going to be handled with force, no exceptions. And if I’m completely honest, anyone approaching me with a knife will be answered by my firearm.

The Police reacted “stupidly” to this old lady. Nuff said.

@lach>>>>>>>>>>> agree with you 100% co-sign. police act supidly 80% of the time in certain situations.

The elderly woman was left in the car by her daughter who was just wanting to run in and run out. Her mother was in a seatbelt and could not get out of it. There was a knife in the car and she used it to cut the seatbelt. She was confused and holding the knife when the police approached her. She had no intention to threaten or harm anyone. The excessive force that was used to subdue her was completely and totally unwarranted. What type of person takes advantage of the weakness and vulnerability of an old woman?

Yeah how about you guys get a little context before making outlandish and ridiculous comments i.e. Randolph!
“This old lady was in the parking lot of Walmart in Whitehall, Ohio swinging a knife at people, when the police arrived she wouldn’t drop the knife so the police officer took her down, the lady also assulted a kid by hitting him which sparked the crowd of people outside anyway, he was with relatives who intervened and that’s when the knife swinging started anyone that tried to help her she began to swing her knife at them threatening them”.

Sure she is old, but she was swinging the knife at quite a few people, she deserves what she gets.

Holy fuk maine

They kind of brushed over this when it happened in the local news here. Can everyone go to youtube and post comments there…send this to your friends and make a bigger deal of it so it wont be pushed under the rug!

WTF!!!!!

Is that her wig on the damn gound?! He slammed her so hard her damn wig came off….!!!

“they act funny, I might have to pop the coppa” – Fab

I didn’t know she has a knife though. I can’t act all outraged. If a 80 yr old man came at me with a knife, I might have to put them down as well….or just slowly jog away.

@ creolecutie
That why everyday people should not have guns because they will fire of at the simplest things… Look how the police(s) are handeling things and they are suppose to be trained!!! can you imagine how people on the street would react especially you after seeing this post about the 80 year old woman.
GOD HELP US ALL.

@ Joey…I see

Welp, look at wtf Madea done started…

I live in columbus ohio where this is at !! wtf man….I been to that wal mart in whitehall…..this exacgtly why I dont go there often lol this was on the news last night…..

while everyboody always talkin bout LAPD, Columbus ohio police just as crazy and outta line though!

The Lady Cop slammed her all she had to do was take the knife she walked face to face to the women and then just slammed her and busted her head and she reistringn her like she going to get up and runn away ! WTH

Why were the police called in the first place?

is it me or is her head bleeding??? seriously they got scared of grandma with a knife…she could barely wal. SMDH. what is going on today??

wooooooooooooooooooooooow

Only in America. That woman did not deserve that. She was trying to harm anyone with that knife, so why did they touch her?
SMH at her wig was sitting on her kane.

@blaqkink…

Yes! Her head was bleeding!!! That’s ridiculous!

i think the columbus police acted…… stupidly. there’s a worn-out pattern here. phucc the police!

Disgraceful the police could have handled the situation better than that, I didn’t see the policewoman show any concern for this lady who must have been in some form of pain she still held her two hands together for quite a long time

Yet blacks still put ourselves in dumb situations and expect what from the police exactly? black woman with a knife is all that officer seen. period. She saw no age.

Regardless of the fact that she had a weapon they didnt have to injure her like that. They could have taken the knife from her without crackin her damn head open. The police could have handled this a lot better

Wow, the police are down right bullies who hide behind their badges.They are trained to handle situations like this it was obvious the elderly lady could barely walk,regardless of the knife.

@ Disgusted:

You are so right!

Ok they slammed her hard but….she had a f’n knife!!! I don’t care how old she is, if she cut you in yo throat you could die!!! Sorry Madea.

That is so sad.

terrible

your comment is so on ima have to post it again

Dajournalist

And in regard to her wielding a knife…. Restraint training would include working with people who have mental illness, using rubber bullets… and taking more than 10 seconds to convince a person to drop the knife.. Especially one you can outrun. People negotiate with hostages for hours.. this old lady couldn’t get 10 minutes? Who knows if she could hear well? She is 80-something. Damn.

Nobody tells the entire story… This old lady was in the parking lot of Walmart in Whitehall, Ohio swinging a knife at people, when the police arrived she wouldn’t drop the knife so the police officer took her down, the lady also assulted a kid by hitting him which sparked the crowd of people outside anyway, he was with relatives who intervened and that’s when the knife swinging started anyone that tried to help her she began to swing her knife at them threatening them. Man the 1st of the month make people crazy ……..

You see she was a danger to the community, and if someone hand ended up dead because of her; for example that helpless child, ya’ll would be saying, where was the police. Can’t win with yall either way.

This is totally ridiculous! This cop could’ve diffused the situation just by walking up to the lady and taking the knife out of her hand! Apparently, the elderly woman is suffering from some mental issues, maybe dementia or alzheimer’s. And what took the cops so long to call for EMT? It’s funny how the whole police force showed up cuz they know the mucked up for real! She’s definitely has a case. I pray that she’s doing ok.

Ok, I actually cried seeing that poor lady bleed out like that. The didnt have to slam her that way. They have shown more patience trying to subdue terrorist in hostage situations. They had no concern at all for the lil old black lady who could be suffering from mental illness. My grandmother is 79 and has dementia. She gets violent on occassion and can be harmful to herself, we put her in an assisted living nursing home in Delaware which is expensive but necessary. So sad to see that white officers show no restraint with our ppl. they would have talked calmly, soothed and caressed her if she were white… White cops should not police our communities, they have no sensitivity toward us nor are they sympathetic to our lives. The also fear us as violent and aggressive people so we are a threat to them by just being. This is why they shoot first and ask questions later- they are afraid of us.

Wow @ The Truth…are you in Columbus? I didn’t get all of that part of the story. This was the 1st I’d even heard of it…

I am not shocked, There is nothing they will not do to a black man or woman, I am shocked that she did not shoot her. Black Men and women we have to do better, the community what’s left of it should be outraged.

This is sickening. You can’t count on anyone nowadays. What did it take to talk that situation down, like so many that I’ve seen the police to to their white brethren? Our people have to start standing up for each other instead of against each other. “I wish you would do me like that” is a statement that is meant for the individual. No one stands up for our people anymore. Their should of been outrage at that point and beyond. When will we ever create a backbone for ourselves?

Stand Up Black People
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I know she had a a knife but she’s 80 years old for god’s sake. I mean who did they think they were dealing with Tyler Perry in Drag!

Most Ohio officers are racist period!!

one muhfcka is saying she was swinging at people, another saying she was stuck in the car and was disoriented when she came out.
yeah elderly ppl still have strength and yeah lets say she was swinging at ppl then she was a threat still…

She’s fcking 80….so many things you could have done…kicked her came away or one officer talk to her an the other sneak up from behind or you just spray her with pepper spray and when she’s disoriented you rush n grab her hands. Rather she have runny eyes than a bleeding head. You have to be really unfit and slow if you get stabbed by an 80 year old. How fast do you think she is to thrust that knife…smfh

ummmmmmmmm…. why is the guy talking through the whole damn tape on the phone?

And if grand-mama would have stabbed some kid while the police were letting her wild-out, you all would have been pissed about that, too.

The cops get paid to stop drama and protect the public. Sometimes that means there’s some side drama. If she would have dropped the knife, it wouldn’t have been a problem.

CAN SOMEONE POST THE SITE..

I live in columbus well near anyways this crap happens all the time.

Aynone on here defending the cops actions, needs their head examined or beat in by the cops, so they understand what police brutality is. Obviously they must not have older relatives in their family who are suffering from a slight case of dementia or altzheimers desease or just being plain senile. You stupid desensatized bastards.

@cookie
‘People negotiate with hostages for hours.’
Cosign

@the Truth
You didn’t tell the entire story either. Did she just assault the kid for no damn reason? Give me the details of why she hit the child then I’ll let you know if she was in the wrong (in assaulting the child). Plz no PC ‘that was not her child & she had no right under any circumstances to touch someone elses child.’ BS.

In response to your danger to the community statement. As for the knife its obvious she had some sense to not use the knife on the the child (when she assaulted him/her) but to use it against the relatives coming after her. In which case she was defending herself.

The main point is there were other tactics these police officers could have used to get the knife from this woman.

SMH @ this being equivalency to body slamming a toddler.

ok.. lets make a list of all the other methods to resolving the issue…

-pepperspray
-mace
-billie club
-negotiations
-rubber bullet
-simple restraint
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what else?

the outrage is that police have no tactic nowadays…they be on some ol school Malcolm X type sh*t “by any means necassary” that should not be there motto…as a police officer they should be trained to properly assess a situation and handle it accordingly…i have worked in nursing homes before and the elderly can get violent when they have certain conditions such as dementia and alzhiemer’s…they would try to fight us (and old people can be suprisingly strong)it might take 2 or 3 of us to restrain them, but we didn’t go around body slamming ‘em…..

the officer had backup she could have drawn her mace or taser while the other officer creeped up from behind…i mean damn you would think it was rocket science

its too often that police have no accountability and it’s really sickening…it’s so bad (esp. where i live) that people don’t want to call the police for any reason…you might call the police for help and they end up giving you a ticket or harrassing you over some bullshit

The woman was not innocent. She did not do what the police asked. An elderly person or a child with a weapon have the same potential to injure or kill another person, regardless of age or stature. People assume that an old lady can’t do harm, oh yes she can!! I am sorry the lady was injured but the situation could have been worse if this woman just went crazy and started stabbing people. I can not fault the officer for doing their job.

AND ive never been formally trained as any kind of public servant.. wow!

-taser

@cocoa

You sound like an idiot!!! F!ck the Police!!!

THIS IS THE NEWPAPER REPORTS.. THE WOMAN HAD ALZHEIMERS.. SHE WAS CONFUSED…

Charges will not be filed against a woman who wielded a knife in the parking lot of Wal-Mart, 3651 E. Main St., shortly after 6 p.m. Aug. 1.

Police said the woman, believed in her early 80s and to have Alzheimer’s disease, was left in a car while her daughter shopped inside the store.

It appears the woman retrieved a knife from the car and began wandering the parking lot, reports said.

A family she approached felt threatened and called 911, said Whitehall Sgt. Joe Huntzinger. The first Whitehall officer to arrive observed the woman and asked her to drop the knife. The woman refused and threatened to cut the officer, Huntzinger said.

Additional officers arrived as an “officer in trouble” call was placed and a crowd gathered with the potential to become “unruly,” Huntzinger said.

After repeated requests to drop the knife, an officer forcibly disarmed the woman, who struck her head on the ground. She was treated at an area hospital and released

She was trying to kick and stab the police officer. She was obviuous ok enough after she hit the ground to hold onto that knife and continue to fight 2 police officers! The police can b out of control but so r the people they get called out for.

I seen the lady waving a knife bur honestly when your that elderly alot of things could be wrong, She couldve been suffering from Alzheimers, Dementia, anything but for the cop to slam her in the ground like that and bust her head open is beyond wreckless. I dont give dang they couldve tried another tactic. This is shocking and no cop would slam a white old lady like that…ever…ever but she was a black old lady so who the hell cares right…SMH at this …this is some phukkin bullshittt

This pissed me off to no end. Let somebody slam my Grandma to the ground like that. She better be glad she had a partner because it looked to me like she was about to get mobbed

This seriously made me cry..think about when people diresepct old people and it’s like damn that’s somebody mom or grandma..Now just imagine if you saw the police doing this to your mom right in front of you. This is a disgrace. That cop could have taken the knife from her with no problem. When will they stop? When will they learn?

Here is the number to the police department. Make sure you call to COMPLAIN – 614-237-6333.

thx

FCK the POLICE…I have no RESPECT for there BYTCH ASS’s….

Got damn! They cracked her skull open!

1. grannys aint made the same anymore. These 2009 grandmas are certified goons! that cop was scared for her life

2. did the cameraman really have a phone convo while taping? “yeah, i just came here to pay some bills, and we going over here afterwards”

WTF???

I can’t find fault with the cop on this one. The old lady had a knife in her hand. They obviously couldn’t taze the old lady. The only way to get the knife was to take her down like that unfortunately.

That was completely uncalled for. No excuse.

I understand that she was armed with a knife but she was SHUFFLING with a cane…she could BARELY pivot. Was she really that much of a threat?

Minor submission maybe (grabbing her arm to disarm her) but body slamming her to the ground?! Puhleez.

She is not a young and spry woman. The injury she received to the back of the head is going to be something serious to heal from.

The officer may say, “I had no choice” but let someone body slam her grandmother…I bet she’ll be singing a different tune then.

SMH

The excessive force was not necessary. At worst they could have tasered her, but not this.

Im outraged! What did the police think that this 80 yr old woman,using a cane, with what looks like a butter knife, could possible to them? OMG, I hope she is alright. I hope this footage is shown all over the world. I hope she sues the crap out of them, after being viciously attacked like that!

wow is she ok

ok this is a hard one on one hand she did have a knife…on the other hand she could barely move it wouldn’t have that hard to get it away from her. Slamming her to the ground was uncalled for! I mean really you can’t subdue a lady with a cane and a limp better than that? What the do they teach them in the academy?

Niasia

ok this is a hard one on one hand she did have a knife…on the other hand she could barely move it wouldn’t have that hard to get it away from her. Slamming her to the ground was uncalled for! I mean really you can’t subdue a lady with a cane and a limp better than that? What the do they teach them in the academy?

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That’s what I’m saying. Why do they have to use excessive force for everything? As slow as that old woman looked, you trying to tell me that two healthy bodied police officers couldn’t have subdued her without cracking her skull on the pavement? Then again, she should count her blessings…I’m actually surprised they didn’t pull out a gun and shoot her in the chest.

i’m so sorry God forgive me coz i giggled out loud when i read the heading ….. i know i’m not the only one that did.

I am still in tears from seeing that old lady on the ground bleeding from her head. She was more than likely swinging a knife because she has DEMENTIA…which she can not control. That “woman” used excessive force and there is no excuse for what she did. Her family members have a lot of discipline because if that was my mother or grandmother, I would have torn that Wal Mart parking lot down. I would have tried my hardest to beat the hell out of that police officer. I would have certainly caught a case that day. This is a damn shame.

How was she a threat????? Maybe she had mental issues…I know they have a ruff job..never knowing when soneone might hurt or shoot them but an 80 yr old lady???The police are so quick to beat somebody down.

I’m sure they’ll use the knife in her hand as a defense…That cop could’ve sprayed her from afar…

In this situation, regardless of what the po po do it will be regarded as police brutality. Especially because of her age. I dunno, they could have gone about it in another way tho I guess. The daughter should NOT left her mother like that in the car. PERIOD. Either leave her home or take her with. point blank.

@ Freaks On Myspace

WUSSUP GIRL? HOLLA @ YA BOY

This is straight foolishness….TWO cops ONE old lady other methods could have been used

@hateeveryoneequally

I just called to file a complaint. They said that you have to come in person to do it, because you have to sign it. I’m really far away. I really hope that everyone from that city/state comes in to file a complaint. I really do. Is there some type of online petition to sign?

WAYYYYYYYYY OUT OF LINE POLICE ARE STARTING TO ABUSE THEIR POWER AND BECOMING WRECKLESS. I LAUGH AT THE PHRASE TO PROTECT AND SERVE,THE NEW PHRASE SHOULD BE TO MISHANDLE AND ABUSE.

he was right and Im happy he moved closer.
But why did he keep the camera on the male cop andhis badge instead of the female down there with the old lady.

He gets an A for effort but an F for execution.

Why are some people making excuses for the police officers? Whatever happened to common sense and respect for people? You don’t body slam eighty year old people. Period.

First of all, how is everybody going to complain that the lady wasn’t a threat when someone called the police on her. Second, she was swinging around a knife and slamming her to the ground wasn’t the smartest move, but at the same time, that’s how they’re taught to subdue anyone with a knife. I do feel bad for the old lady because she may not have been in her right mind, but I’m sure no matter what the police would have done to get the knife from this lady, the public would have had criticism. I’m on the fence about this one. It was problems on both ends. It isn’t all about race either people. It still exists, but not in all black-white encounters with the police is because of race.

@all of you who say F*uck the police. Next time you’re in trouble think about the comment you made and DON’T CALL ON US!!!!!!!! There’s no excuse for how they handle that situation. However there are still some officers who do the right thing.

how can people say “she only had a knife” “afraid of little old grandma with a knife”. my 90 year old grandma will CUT someone. You couldn’t take her down if she got a knife on you. she’s lucky all they did was throw her to the ground.

This is just sad. Just when you think we’re making progress. SMH!

IM NOT SURE IF ANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN AROUND A PERSON WITH ALZHEIMERS, BUT AT TIMES THEY DO TEND TO BECOME VIOLENT. MANY TURN ON THEIR OWN CHILDREN, THINKING SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HARM THEM WHEN ACTUALLY THE PERSON COULD BE TRYING TO GIVE THEM A SIMPLE BATH OR EVEN FEED THEM.. ITS SO SAD SHE HAD TO BE MAN HANDLED. SIMPLE PEPPER SPRAY WOULD HAVE WORKED.. I FEEL THEY WENT TO FAR KNIFE OR NO KNIFE, THE WOMAN WAS NOT IN HER RIGHT MIND. PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMERS MINDS CAN CHANGE IN A MATTER OF SECONDS

sorry to say but that old woman had it coming, everyone knows you dont f with the police, just do what they tell you to do, there is nothing worst than a female cop with something to prove, but we already know how these cops do and at 87 this old woman should know that too.

a few months ago there was an issue where an old white woman was agressively arrested by the cops but some of these old people think they get a pass just cause they’re old.

TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SAY SHE HAD A KNIFE LIKE SHES A THREAT PLEASE GO RUN INTO TRAFFIC — SHE COULD HAVE HAD ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE; AND MAYBE SHE WAS DISORIENTED AT THE MOMENT AND DIDN’T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON… THROWING HER TO THE GROUND LIKE THAT IS UNCALLED FOR AND A MOCKERY OF THE POLICE SYSTEM….. SICKENING.

“steal”

Wow…so pretty sooooooooooooooooooooo stupid!!!! Are you serious? Would you like someone slamming your mother or grandmother on the gound???? Your braids are way too yight chica….oops, chico!!!!

This woman could have been disoriented from the heat if she was stuck in the car for a long period of time. Heat affects the elderly much worse than other age groups. I believe this was a health related issue gone horribly array. She may have even been suffering from dementia or some other mental health problem.

That is crazy. Those police officers need to be fired.

I hope a white devil will die!

Very well put, Giovannimp. I completely respect your comment!!!

FACT

Wow…so pretty sooooooooooooooooooooo stupid!!!! Are you serious? Would you like someone slamming your mother or grandmother on the gound???? Your braids are way too yight chica….oops, chico!!!!
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first off, if a loved one of mine had a compromising mental health state, they wouldn’t be out and about in a Wal-Mart parking lot…

JUST LIKE OBAMA SAID THESE POLICE ARE ACTING STUPIDLY. There is no justice in this wat so ever…

@Giov….Thank you! Very well written.

open season!

I’m sorry but all of this was wrong. This was an elderly lady who is using a cane so she can walk. The female officer was like 20x bigger than her. There was no need for her to slam her down like that. I mean she slammed her so hard that she cracked the back of her head and there was blood everywhere. smh

Dirty a** lowlife a** pigs! I fu***** hate cops, damn gestapo!

Damn! They petty as hell for that. If you were gonna take the woman down, hell, dont make her bleed. Dont even slam her at all. Y’all policemen, not professional wrestlers. I bet those policemen wouldnt do that to ann 80-yr-old caucasian woman. Such racism.

There are so many ways they could have handled this situation. Like the other officer could have came behind the lady and grabbed her arm the knife was in. The woman was walking with a cane and slow at best. I never post comments but this was one I had to. The officer moved to quickly she tried nothing else before using this type of force. God help us all when we are elderly.

she did have a knife ,what other solution could they have tried in this situation,they were doing their job,maybe talk her out of it,if she charged at them then they would have to use some type of force

that old lady is lucky all she got was body slammed..in a normal situation she would have been shot

although, she was 80, she waving a wife around at people in an open parking lot..there were kids and adults around.

there are too many instances when we “underestimate” someone and things come out worse than we expected.

people say cops use excessive force and they are racist, so on and so forth..but seriously half of us would not even deal with the goons on our block tearing up our communities, so what do we expect?

just saying

Man, I would have caught a case if this was my grandmama.

SUPERMAN THAT HOE

i agree with ‘too cute ,the original one’

what else could they have done…anything would have been considered excessive force

the cop already tried to talk her into putting the knife down but she didnt listen

Police BRUTALITY at it finest. This COWARD had to body slam an 80 year old woman. What a shame. Treat Black people any kind of way, and get away with it. There is no sympathy, or justice for Black people. It doesn’t matter, if you are blind, cripple,or old,you are fair game, as far as white police are concerned. She just grabbed her arm, threw her to the ground, and cracked her skull. SHE PROBABLY WOULD BE OUTRAGED, IF SOMEONE TREATED HER DOG THE WAY SHE TREATED THIS OLD LADY.
The white racist think of us as being lower than animals. No one should make excuses for what this police woman did to this 80 year old woman. This officer should be fired. This woman was probably disoriented. Most old people take a lot of medication. There should have been a better way.

she done knocked da wig off and errythang

Ok, now that I know why the lady had the knife I can say that this is so wrong…..I’m mad that i’m sitting her focusing on the fact that the cop that bodyslammed her looked like she was concerned after awile….like, “Ahh, shit….I just bodyslammed someones grandma.” Pssh…I tell you about the police….

Listen…the cop had to go home to her family..I get that…
But they didn’t have to do that to Grandma-ma like that…
did we really need to hear ole boys conversation in the background???

i feel for the old woman. it’s an unfortunate situation. but she had a knife. she’s lucky she didn’t get shot. she had alzhiemer’s, but you can’t look at someone and tell that. and folks can be very dangerous with that disease.

i don’t think she would have been body slammed if she was a white woman. white folks get the benefit of the doubt, all angles are explored before violence, the last measure, is taken.

i hope she recovers. doubtful, but i hope so.

it’s very tough, but her daughter should keep a better eye on her. she probably didn’t know her mother was capable of this. (Alzheimer’s gets progressively worse, sometimes rapidly. i know because my grandmother had it.)

That old lady hada knife i would have went hard on her too the you see all those kids out there .

Man, after seeing this, I’m afraid to walk in the parking lot with a Spork…whateva

LMAO@ whateva

That is just sad,, that could have been handled in a more civil way

joey you mama deserves what she get for having your ignorant ass

did ya’ll miss the part when the cop told her to put the knife down?

and you see the cop going up to her to take the knife out of her hand, but she aint let go.

thats when she got slammed

WHY? WHY? WHY? I hope those police will get what they deserve. they are evil. hope they will rot in hell.

smdh. the police acted studidly!!!

hahaha…next time don’t pull a knife on the cops. being old is no excuse for that S#IT. wrong is wrong and it doesn’t matter that she’s old. Her daughter is wrong for letting her mom do that too…I know if my mom was pullin a knife on the cops I would have ran over and took it from her before something like this happened.

I know the old lady wasn’t in her right mind, and I’m so sorry that she was hurt in the process of being subdued, but she was still a danger to the public. For those of you who think just because she was old, she was weak, think again. Old people, especially those with mental illnesses can be alarmingly strong. When I was a student nurse, one of my fellow classmates got knocked on her tail trying to keep a small, elderly male patient in a group home (who was not only skinnier than she, but 5 inches shorter), who had wandered into the busy street, from being killed. Before she could react, he punched her so hard, she said she saw stars (and had a swollen jaw for the rest of the week). So, I can somewhat understand this situation.
With that being said, if an old lady came towards me swinging a knife, I would straight clothes-line her – I don’t care how old she was.

OMG SHE IS BLEEDING…. THIS HURT MY HEART… SHAME ON THOSE OFFICERS FOR LACK OF BETTER WORDS. I CANT BELIEVE THIS, I REALLY HOPE THAT THEY PAY FOR THIS. THIS IS SOOOOO SAD N UPSETTING

the officer’s face looks guilty as a mofo seeing that lady bleed like that.. she KNOW FKN WELL she was Out-Of-MuthaFkn-Line.. not a good look at all. smmfh

That was horrible horrible!!!

@Rrrroe Ski Love

“Aynone on here defending the cops actions, needs their head examined or beat in by the cops, so they understand what police brutality is. Obviously they must not have older relatives in their family who are suffering from a slight case of dementia or altzheimers desease or just being plain senile. You stupid desensatized bastards.”

I totally concur. I don’t know what’s the most disturbing element of this entire depressing episode — the giddy guy who filmed the incident, the officer’s injurious actions, etc. I immediately thought of my late grandmother when I saw that poor woman on the ground. As someone posted, she reportedly has Alzheimer’s, which is a horrible disease that results in severe disorientation, among other debilitating symptoms.

I don’t understand how anyone could say that a woman in her 80s deserved this kind of treatment. Some of us have truly lost any sense of humanity. It’s absolutely chilling.

Also, I saw there were references made to the shooting death (murder) of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in Atlanta, who was killed during an illegal drug raid by police of her home. The officer were found guilty of using false information to get a warrant to enter her house. Three of them — and their sergeant — are now in federal prison where they belong.

This makes my stomach knot up…while I’m sure there are two sides and opinions on this incident what I have not seen or heard is this womans mental state. As a granddaughter with grandparents with Alzheimers disease this behavior and confusion is not uncommon. Often their minds are totally confused and they are often disoriented when taken out of their everyday elements (not home). Consequently the confusion leads them to get upset and yes sometime fightsty (spell check )

I encourage awareness and research about this disease and police of all should be aware of the behavioral traits.

Once again the so-called ‘trained’ police officers, scared as shit, hurt and maim an elderly person. I could have restrained her myself without hurling her into the blacktop. They are a bunch of animals who get a hard d#ck/cl#t because they can wear a gun. Truth be told, the majority of them are mental weaklings and ex-drug addicts and runners. F%ck Da Po-Lice!

Nobody knew what kind of condition this woman had before slamming her or taking action however you choose to see it. What if she turned out to be mentally handicap. This kind of reminds me of that situation where that cop tazered that man and he fell off the building and died then they found out he was mental and the cop hung himself. If something turned out to be wrong with that then what will be the defense then! Did anybody even think how the lady got their or what wass going on with her. I’m pretty sure the crowd didn’t think they were to much in dangeror else they would have not been still there it wasn’t like she wass chasing them around the parking lot.

That is so wrong, no one deserves that kind of treatment especially someone her age

THis is terrible. I hope those cops lose their jobs.That police woman knew better.

its crazy how police these days can get away with so much. You know the officers involved in this, is going to get a week of no lunch break as their punishment.

this has gone viral on the web… see how the world feels about the jackboot cops and this poor woman here:

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They should take her badge she didnt have to be that aggressive with that elderly lady, with hardly no effort of talking it away at all.She was in no danger B*tch was just ruthless

I thought someone said her daughter ran up to check on her, and if so, her daughter needs to take part of the blame. She needed do something to get that knife out of her hand in the first place. And who the hell called the po’s anyway?

Those two officers should be charged with excessive force and should be fired. That 80 something year old woman pose no threat to those officers. Upon arrivial the woman was not threating anyone. She didn’t appear to be in a threating stance. This was unnecessary!! The actions of those officers put the whole department in jeopardy of a lawsuit. She needs to sue the hell out that police department. OHHHHHH I could go on but I won’t

That looks like the SAME EXACT old lady that was trying to fight me the other day!!!!!

SMH @ Grandma out there weilding a knife.

WTH didn’t someone take the knife from grandma before the police came?

Errbody out there talking about “what a shame, that’s messed up, and I wish it was ME” did absolutely nothing. It’s obvious she had the knife out prior to the police arriving on the scene. My question is–who was granny gone cut?

SMH!!!

I know I’m ’bout to piss some people off but I have to note that some of these old people are down right rude and disrespectful and think they should get away with it because of their age and that’s not right, either. Don’t get me wrong–I’m not referring to the ones that suffer from debilitating diseases or anything like that, I’m speaking of the cantankerous old farts that have nothing better to do than to make other’s lives miserable!!!!!!!!

Again I ask–who was Granny gone cut and why was she shuffling around with a cane AND a knife? I bet Gramma has pulled that knife on more people than the police officer has drawn her gun!!!

Gone, Gramma–getcha bid in!!!!!

that is my city columbus whitehall police are reckless .. few months ago had high speed chase killed someone they have different laws then columbus police department they take a little bit further and always dwb allday

@ Marquis de Sade (The Real One)
WTF?

this cop learns a move and decides to use it on a frail 80 y.o. woman – she’s gonna pay for that

WELL AT 1ST I WAS DISGUSTED WITH THE COP THAT SLAMMED THE OLD BAT UNTIL I FOUND OUT SHE HAD A KNIFE
OLD OR NOT WHEN THE POLICE TELL U TO DROP A WEAPON U DO IT OR FACE THE CONCENQUENCES. BLACK PEOPLE ACT STUPID ALL THE TIME EMBARASSING

lets not forget she jus bought the knife.wtf she cant have sumn she jus paid fo?????????????????????

the devil comin he wants his demons back…. shid they all goin 2 hell

Given her age, I would say that the force was excessive. I certainly hope she is OK.

HOWEVER, clearly this woman is not in her right mind. Not saying that she’s crazy, but she doesn’t seem to understand why she shouldn’t be wielding a knife in public. Someone earlier said that her daughter left her in the car alone to “run in and out” of the store. Sorry, but if someone is in this kind of mental state, they CANNOT be left alone in unfamiliar surroundings. Hell, some of them can’t be left at HOME alone.

Being a Police Officer, yes we are trained to use deadly force when approached by weapons. Im not saying that the officer felt threatened, but at the same time, never underestimate the power of an elderly individual….period. They can cause harm as well as a mentally challenged person. Yes, i think it could have been handled better, but at the same time, until you are in that situation, you really cant say what you will do.

(At least the guy filming said that the woman did have a knife. He admitted that she was in the wrong as well)

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Ok now we all need to realize she did have a knife and she wasn’t putting it down like she was told. People sometimes think oh well they are just a baby or they are an old person but they kill people too!

WTF is “root” talking about?

I support the police. They have a thankless job and people in all communities give them enough headaches.

However, in the is instance, I believe the police used excessive force. I simply don’t believe that if this lady had been another race, she would have been body slammed. Even if it was protocol.

That’s ridiculous. The old lady may have been suffering from dementia or something. I remember when my grandfather started to develop the illness, he would be stubborn, would “fight”/be resistant, act angry, and wouldn’t listen to others very well. It could be very frustrating. And, although he was 103, he would exhibit a lot of strength. However, he didn’t have the strength to knock someone else over. He had the strength to pull away if you were trying to take something from him. With his age/lack of balance, he could have been easily “knocked over”. The police overreacted, and I would have been EXTREMELY upset if I had seen it or if it had been my grandfather. They should be punished in some way and taught how to deal w/elderly people suffering from conditions such as dementia, alzheimer’s, etc. No health care professional would be allowed to deal with people who have these conditions in such a manner, and they shouldn’t be allowed to either. It’s shameful, and if I were them I’d be hanging my head/hiding my face.

@ Pretty Chick

“I simply don’t believe that if this lady had been another race, she would have been body slammed. Even if it was protocol.”

I agree. If she had been a white lady, their entire community would have been in an UPRAGE. It NEVER would have happened.

@sevengance

“OLD OR NOT WHEN THE POLICE TELL U TO DROP A WEAPON U DO IT OR FACE THE CONCENQUENCES. BLACK PEOPLE ACT STUPID ALL THE TIME EMBARASSING”

I think the old lady probably was suffering from dementia, which impacts the way people think and respond. When people have this condition, their character changes and they don’t process situations the way they did when they didn’t have the condition. I don’t know if it’s classified as a mental illness, but it affects the mind. I don’t believe the old lady was intentionally being belligerent, and even if she were, they still used excessive force.

damn and her wig fell off too….

and ole girls wig was on the ground next to her… She knew better than to be trying to come at the po po with a knife. lol at the dude on the phone “I got to get up out of here before all the police come”… you know he ha warrants!

Beast Master

That’s a cheap rationalization. You know and I know there’s a big difference between an 80+ year old woman with a knife, and a 50+ year old man with a concealed “GUN”.

Even if her condition wasn’t Alzheimer’s, this is an 84-year-old lady who cannot move without the assistance of a cane. She did not deserve to be wounded to the point that she needed stitches. That is brutal and an exorbitant use of force. I’m sure the crowd and the police cars exacerbated the confusion Ms. Dotson must have felt. It was badly handled all the way around. Rather than calling 911, it appears that someone with a medical background who was familiar with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other conditions that could affect a woman in her 80s, would have been of greater assistance.

all you people here defending the actions of these police officers need help…clearly you have not had any experience with victims of Alzheimers/Dementia or whatever other kind of mental disease. I worked in the Dementia unit at a nursing home and this kind of shit, even worse, happened all the time. But we were trained on how to handle the situation without anyone getting hurt. Clearly these officers must not be getting the right training to deal with these kinds of situations. Cops are supposed to know how to deal with people of different sizes and strengths and this is no way to handle an 80 something year old woman with a damn cane..knife or no knife. Try pulling this kind of BS in a nursing home and you will for damn certain lose your job, face a felony against a vulnerable adult and expect a lawsuit from the family of the victim. But of course, because this is the damn law enforcement in this case, they get the pass to act this way. And the reason i cry RACISM in this case is because you WILL NOT see these kinds of brutal acts against an elderly Caucasian woman.Period. All hell would break loose… you’d just have to turn on the TV and see it in every damn headlines.

As black people we complain about the police but not many of us are willing to become one and change the way we get treated. Imagine if the police force was 50-70% black instead of 80% non black. how would other races react? how would the regulation over police actions change? We are subject to their power rather than power holders, and like it or not policmen HOLD the power!

this seriously made me cry. my grandmother is 83 with dementia. she can become violent, but its because she is confused and doesn’t know who anyone is let alone who she is most of the time. it sometimes takes quite a few people to restrain her, but a bodyslam is never necessary.

Does anyone know the outcome of this assault on the 80 yr. old woman?
This is beyond disgusting, I say, find out where the policewoman’s elderly mother lives, wait til she’s in a parking lot & slam her down, too. See, maybe only then will she get what she did was wrong!
Fire the police officers involved, then slam them down for a year, see how they like it, those evil bas (t) ards.
Is the lady ok? Does she have any permanent damage.
What hospital is she in? Pls advise.

THIS IS WHY PEOPLE SHOOT POLICE OFFICERS EVERYONE!!!! THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY N.O. REGARDS FOR OTHERS, THUS THE REASON WHY THE POLICE IN EVERY SINGLE STATE GETS SHOT! AND THEY ASK WHY??? JUST AS LONG AS ACTIONS SUCH AS THIS CONTINUE, OTHERS WILL CONTINUE TO SHOOT THEM PEOPLE!!

I have heard and seen some horrible things being done to people by police but this is the worst. What if that was their Mother, Grandmother or any female relative. How could they be so cold as to do her like that…..so, so sad

I have but one question…what about pepper spray? If the officers felt threatened why not use that type of substance? I have seen them use it on big 300lb men…why not an 80 year old woman if they didn’t think they could subdue her any other way. This is sad…and absolutely unecessary!

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