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I hope this is a joke.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but even after reading the whole thing I kept looking for evidence that it was and I could not find any.  A grandson at home with his disabled grandmother called 911 asking for assistance with her medication, which he was not familiar with.  Instead of sending a medical professional, "as many as ten El Reno police" officers "pushed their way through the door."  WHAAAAAAT?

Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe, after her grandson called 911 seeking medical assistance, the woman and her grandson claim in Oklahoma City Federal Court. Though the grandson said, "Don't Taze my granny!" an El Reno police officer told another cop to "Taser her!" and wrote in his police report that he did so because the old woman "took a more aggressive posture in her bed," according to the complaint.

Unless bedridden grandma happened to have a concealed .45 hiding behind her oxygen tank I'm not sure how he could have construed her posture to be aggressive.  Lonnie Tinsley, the grandson, told the police, "Don't taze my Granny!" but they responded by threatening him with the same treatment.  Instead they cuffed him and sat him back of a police car while they took care of the real "threat."

The police then proceeded to approach Ms. Varner in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she began to suffer oxygen deprivation.  The police then fired a Taser at her and only one wire struck her, in the left arm; the police then fired a second Taser, striking her to the right and left of the midline of her upper chest and applied high voltage, causing burns to her chest, extreme pain and to pass out.

The police then grabbed Ms. Varner by her forearms and jerked hands together, causing her soft flesh to tear and bleed on her bed; they then handcuffed her.

Well done, El Reno PD, well done via Courthouse News Service.