Tasered for Being A Deaf Crime Victim

I've lived my whole adult life grateful that in the United States we have police who work for us, the local residents, not some tyrant who can order them to round us up and torture us on any pretext.

But these days, I shock myself by realizing that if I had an emergency which required law enforcement assistance, I would think long and hard before calling the police.

Because apparently even in the liberal and peaceful Northwest, the cops can't tell victims from perpetrators, and don't even try to figure it out before firing.

Diane Sweet at Crooks and Liars:

A deaf woman from Tacoma, Washington called 911 seeking help from police because she was being attacked inside her own home, but when she ran out to meet police officers, they fired a stun gun at her and took her into custody.

After being hit with the stun gun, Lashonn White fell to the sidewalk leaving her bruised, bloody and confused. No interpreter was present, and she was denied one during her three days of incarceration.

“All I’m doing is waving my hands in the air, and the next thing I know, I’m on the ground and then handcuffed. It was almost like I blacked out. I was so dizzy and disoriented,” White said.

Witnesses said White began bleeding heavily from her knuckles and the right side of her face swelled up immediately after she hit the pavement following the Taser jolt.

Charged with simple assault and obstruction of a public servant (law enforcement officer), White spent 60 hours in jail before a prosecutor requested that no charges be filed in her case.

Neighbors who witnessed the incident, and spoke to Tacoma police at the time, gave vastly different accounts from the officer's police reports.

More on this from KIRO in Tacoma.

 I don't know how many multi-million-dollar lawsuits it's going to take before this shit stops, but I hope we get there before something happens for which I have to call the cops.