ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A 37-year-old woman has died after deputies in northern Virginia used a Taser stun gun on her while she was in custody.
Natasha McKenna of Alexandria was taken off life support Sunday, five days after she was stunned at the Fairfax County jail, the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
McKenna was in the process of being transported from the Fairfax County jail to the Alexandria city jail Tuesday when deputies say she failed to comply with their commands and resisted them. A deputy then used a Taser to restrain her, sheriff's Lt. Steve Elbert said Monday.
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12 comments:
sounds like another case of don't resist arrest...
Her attitude got her killed. If police were allowed to punch her in the mouth to make her behave she'd be alive today.
If Po Po say stop resistin you best be listnin (said in the style of Johnny Cochran).
Saved the taxpayers a bunch of money on this thugette!
Anon 3:45 PM:
You and your kind are garbage... Cops punch people in the face all the time, shit they even throw them sometimes, to the ground against walls and such...
I love how you all say it is the fault of the person being killed... If you only followed the law, if you only did this or that... YEAH ON IF!!!
ONLY IF cops didn't tase people 50 times, only if cops didn't abuse their power, only if cops were not such pussies... ONLY IF right????
I suppose it is NASA's fault for global warming right? I Suppose it is the flag pole's fault Toyota car accelerators got stuck a few years back right?
Just like spoons make people fat and it is the pencils fault you miss spell words right????
You people make me sick...
4:35 Why all the hating from you, you immediately assume its the cops fault, are you really any better? Lets get all the facts first then start making judgments. It is sad when someone dies but sometimes they are the cause of their own death, or the cop may have lost it and tasered her to death, lets get the facts first.
I think they need to dial down the voltage on these things.
People should not be dying from this.
I am sure if the taser was confiscated you may find either a defect or tampering.
right on 4>35 Nazi tactics by a jack booted militarized police force...what happened to the cop on the beat we all knew?..no now its comply or else...expect a boot in your face..
Given the number of deaths from tasers, maybe it's time to re-evaluate if these are "non-lethal."
The heart operates off electrical impulses. When these are interrupted, people can drop dead from sudden cardiac arrest.
Perhaps it's time to make a connection.
Tazer should be illegal..for EVERYBODY!>
I guess they shoot everyone instead 11:02?
Need to see the video. You can't trust cops as far as you can throw em.
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