Woman tasered at Best Buy

51 people have died in the last 8 months in Canada and the USA after being tasered.

42 people have been put to death in the USA for Capitol Punishment in the last 12 months.

Any questions ?.

The taser is designed to be an alternative to lethal guns. This is just sick!

I hope most of you know that the taser is extremely painful and can kill if used repeatedly?

USA is becoming a f'ing police state.

When I glanced quickly at the link I read it as "WTF" ... which is apt because that was my first thought on reading this. How on earth can such behaviour by the fil^H^H^H police be considered acceptable*? I'm not surprised she resisted arrest!

* granted I've not seen the video of the incident, but since when did loud indignation and arm waving require such brutal intervention?

Personally having worked in retail at one of Bestbuy's competitors for close to 5 years and having dealt with people like that i don't feel sorry for her at all. If people can't handle things calmly they should leave and call the manager later to discuss it or atleast go to the offices to deal with it instead of making it difficult for others to do their shopping. This goes double for the christmas season.

People who act like idiots in public need to be tasered, along with the people in line at starbucks that spent 20 mins in line and still dont know what they want when the get to the front

"Subsequently arrested and taken to jail, Beeland faces misdemeanor charges including disorderly conduct and resisting arrest."

When I first read that sentence, I assumed it was the police officer who had been arrested and taken to jail. Apparently you can now be tasered in America for talking loudly and waving your arms. If the same approach were adopted in Italy, the entire population would be mown down.

God Bless America

It is simple. If the police ask you to do something, DO IT! This whole attitude of I have the right to abuse others or refuse to comply to authority is why we have the problems in society today. Having worked in the public sector for most of my life when someone acts like this over something, 99% of the time they are wrong.

- all you've read is a second hand account and now the lot of you are expets? You haven't even seen any facts of the incident and yet here you are passing emotionally charged judgment. 

I imagine it's pretty easy to comment on a situation like this having never seen or been in an incident akin to it. You have of course fully examined both sides in the matter? Seen any video on it? The press has a most wonderful way of whitewashing incidents as people against power - think for yourselves before blindly swaying in frequency to emotionally manipulative second hand accounts.

Take a deep breath and before you chant "police state", make sure you know what it means first.

God forbid that we should throw our arms in the air and protest our innocence.I mean, that kind of action could kill someone and clearly she needed to be taken down asap.
I think she got off lightly, i would have sent in the SWAT.

Don't know why the US hates Iran so much, appears they have a lot in common!

After watching what little video that was shown on the story, I don't think the officer was too far out of line. It could've been handled differently, such as stepping back 6ft and covering the irate little b.. with the taser and demand she lay down on the floor with arms spread wide. All that probably wouldn't have gotten through if the "customer" had worked herself up to a real eyes bugging out, foaming at the mouth pisser; which may well have happened. Officers work on a basis of escalation of force. This had apparently escalated to the arrest stage and Beeland was evading the officer's attempts to take her into custody. A messy situation but nothing to get upset about.

What is truly sad - US citizens acceptance of Fascism.

I have worked in retail also and have met such inane, moronic people before, but there is no way I could justify the use of a taser. 

No matter how loud or how much of an scene she was causing, she wasn't physically attacking anyone nor was she more than the typical blowhard stupid holiday shopper that's sadly becoming more and more common these days.

A taser, like mentioned before this post, is an alternative to using lethal force. Just because it is not lethal (most of the time) does not justify its abuse.

The only way I see this happening is if maybe the police was telling her she was arrested and to stay still and she just decided to walk off, even then physical retraint should be the next step, not taser.

Go to YouTube and do a search, it hurts quite a bit.

We need to expand this programme into all public spheres to enforce decorum - schools, library, the tube, etc. In American it should be permitted to carry a phaser into a public (male) restroom to stop nonsense and unwanted solicitation. Start the tasering early and often to ensure the wee ones behave properly and grow up to be a respectful person that can follow orders. IMHO.

I salute the peace officer who has the gut to administer this proper behavior modification / conditioning for our collective safety in the check out line.

"Apparently you can now be tasered in America for talking loudly and waving your arms. If the same approach were adopted in Italy, the entire population would be mown down."

Dare to dream.

You guys finding this actually funny or agreeable are disgusiting me. How can you side with a 'law official' using a lethal weapon on a non-violent victim? You'd probably also side with the Nazi on their actions.

I think getting upset at someone for accusing you of commiting fraud is perfectly reasonable. Both Best Buy and the Officer should be charged with assault.

how dare a customer loudly proclamating the incompetence of store staff, huh?

Law enforcement have absolutley no social skills. They are in a position of "serving and protecting" the public. What threat did this woman pose? She was rude, loud and upset but is the only solution always violence on the part of the cops? Can we no longer talk to each other? Can we not offer her a cup of coffee and a couch to sit on in the managers office to discuss the problem? Law enforcement simply wants to be in control and control society. Think about this: she got tasered and arrested because she was loud? These cops relegated this woman to a common criminal by arresting her for not letting the cop control her.

Your chances of surviving a taser jolt: >99%
Your chances of surviving a bullet: <5%.

Options:
1) Don't act like you deserve to be tased
2) LISTEN when told by an officer to stop acting like you deserve a tase.

Did freaking out make the credit card problem better? No! So grow up and act like a mature adult and you won't get tased. 


Yet another example of trigger happy cops in the USA that is becoming a Police State. Most cops here have hug chips on their shoulders and I think they were bullied in school so they have the pay back mentality not to mention most all of them are on power trips.
Ruby Ridge and Waco come to mind.
I hope she sues the crap out of him and takes his house and dog too.
Merry Christmas
Glenn

The taser seems to quickly be becoming a too-easy substitute for competent police work. 

Any officer using a taser should be treated like an officer who shot somebody, including a full investigation and review - and that DOES NOT just mean the idiot officer's idiot superior saying "looks good to me".

LOL@Tom Welsh

VERY true!

Well, it was only a matter of time stuff like this started to happen.

Dissapointing, but not unexpected.

Isn't she supposed to be calm and relaxed by nature? guess it really doesn't work...

may be she should have been shot dead, then may be people in usa would wake up,

Apparently Tasers are now the easy answer to any situation where talking things out might be long winded and possibly confusing. 

If they could, someone would probably taser their way to a college degree.

This shows just how much Yoga works to "sooth".

It doesn't matter how many people have died from tasers in the past, nobody died here. Build a bridge, the customer was obnoxious and the officer took care of the problem.

If this black monster tased me, I would be back and she would not get a second chance. Merry Xmas all of you stupid goy.

...and got it hard. We get bashed for having guns yet, when we taser some-one we just as well have shot to kill and eliminated the problem. 

But no, we take the safer alternative and get the same wrap. Please make up your minds people.

I'm getting tired of the us vs. them attitudes.

Best-Buy personnel have even commented on this article, and considered the actions taken justified. Need we comment more?

Cheers!

Not really. 
Good thing that I'm not living in the states, the dictatorship country where fear, disinformation, media control, insanity and irrational behaviour rules the day.


This is just another example of how we live in a police state. RON PAUL 2008!

Relax guys! How would you feel if your christmas was cut short cuz your credit card went "suspect" so suddenly? She was prolly looked upon like a criminal once the retailer saw that... and social stigma is really damaging, y'know.

I don't blame the lady for throwing a tantrum and those that do that are try to correct something unfairly done to them... but it turned out for the worse.

Christmas should be a joyous time, so I hope her days get better,

Nobody should have their life potentially risked by being tasered just for being upset, rude, loud, or disrespectful.

There are ways to deal with a situation like that, a taser is a lazy, dangerous, and brutal way to manage it.

Shame on that police department.

Thigs have gotten out of hand. A simple stop flailing your arms or I'll taser you would have made the woman stop I'm sure.

It’s apparent that the penalty for being justifiably irate in public is tasered. What’s next tasered for jaywalking?

That just shows how dumb, weak and lazy cop are getting. He probably just had his hair done and didn't want to get it messed up. After all, she was waving her hands, just that makes her danger to public :-(.
(danger to his new hair cut maybe)

I thought tazers are meant as last resort before pulling the gun out, not an easy way out.
Yup, global enslavement is coming people.
Enjoy 'freedom' while you can.

If you are a human you should act like one and not like a wild animal especially in public. If you want to act like an idiot, then you are going to get treated like one.

The tased woman was using hew own credit card, not someone else's! She was tasered merely because her loud display of anger at being falsely accused by Best Buy was causing a public scene in frontof potential customers and disrupting Best Buy's potential profits. Apparently cops now feel that our Constitutional Rights go out the window if we dare practice Freedom of Speech too loudly!!

While I do not agree with the idea of just tasering every irate customer in a store (think of the electric bill!) I must say that most customers bring their troubles onto themselfs. Stores are run by people, and people are not perfect. Sometimes things happen that are out of a workers control, be it an item out of stock or equipment malfunction. But, customers don't make things any better by getting angery and blowing up over it. 

I say this lady deserved to be tasered. If you want to act like a child when a problem accures at a store, then you should be treated like one. And as taking her out and spanking her wasn't an option......

"Approximately 300 people have died in the US and Canada following incidents involving use of tasers by law enforcement personnel in just the last few years."

What is your source for this?

I hate F'ing Yoga instructors.

The yoga instructor will get off scot-free. She's white. The office is black and we're talking about Florida here. I expect a hefty settlement for the yoga instructor.

Here is an idea that very few people seem to have considered. If you don't want to be tasered, DON'T BE A FRIGGIN IDIOT TO THE COP!!! if you calm down and do what the cop asks, you wont get tasered! how simple is that?
I don't know about the rest of you, but if I do decide to be a clown to a cop, I would MUCH rather be tased than, oh say, beaten with a night stick, sprayed with mace (not fun at all) or SHOT.
If someone is being irrational and refuses to calm down, simple talking is NOT going to subdue them, otherwise they would be considered "rational". Ooh, here is a brilliant idea! have them fill out a questionnaire before you subdue them... "are you allergic to pepper? do you have a weak heart? are you a habitual idiot?"

Those freaking Cowards just keep employing out of high school freaks with no ambition

Those freaking Cowards just keep employing out of high school freaks with no ambition

Google fascism. Tasers are a pain compliance weapon. Take the red pill.

Another good reason not to shop at BB...!

I guess that any unhappiness with BB will now have to be resolved in small claims court... <smile>


Watching the video it did not appear that the woman who attacked the customer was in fact a police officer. She appeared to be an employee of or contract security guard for the corporation Best Buy. This employee can expect to be charged civilly and criminally for her lawless behaviour.

It amazes me at what the police are doing and getting away with these days. They're given to much power and are now punishing innocent citizens! And then we're suppose to respect the bullies!

Shoppers at a store who are making a big scene like that can easily incite a riot. I had a woman at a local grocer who was giving the cashier shit over a coupon, she was getting incredibly worked up over the incident. I was standing in line behind her and got so tired of listening to her bitch a shit fit that I told her, quote verbatim, to, "Shut the fuck up," because she was yelling and screaming over $2. Now, I'm no model for citizen of the year, but you get the wrong two people in that exact same circumstance and you'll have a riot break out.

...I'm surprised they didn't just shoot her. Oh, sorry - that's the British police, isn't it? :)

The case for tin-foil underwear is growing and growing. Maybe someone can make a flak jacket that combines both protections? Then it will be safe to walk in public without being randomly tasered again...

Oliver.

Yeah, if you have ever worked behind a retail counter you would totally understand and support such actions.

I remember my first job at my local corner Cafe (Mini-Market). We use to have a plank to resolve such issues with customers who felt the need to show such savage behaviour.

Never killed or seriously injured anybody but then again LTIA: Life's Tough In Africa.

Does anyone else find it amusing that a Yoga instructor got this irate? And yes, I too think a few more idoits should be tasered to bring back some civility to culture, since its unacceptable to beat the snot out of people for bad behavior any longer.

The last time I checked there was no law in the USA against talking loudly and waving your arms.

When we do not discipline our police officers for excessive force/power plays then we are condoning this behavior by police. There is no excuse for tasing a woman merely for being upset at on UNFOUNDED accusation!

Wouldn't you be upset if you were falsely accused of using a "suspect" (read stolen) credit card? I sure would! In fact, I though as an American citizen, I would have a right to be, seems we lost more rights while I wasn't looking.

I have worked at best buy also, and I know why they get mad. You are treated like a fool and more. If we have to worry about going to the store and not getting to talk or have a confrontation with the manager with out the store using the police to not have to deal with the person then we are in a mess in this country
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I have seen managers have the police called on people who where not doing anything wrong , but the manager did not want to deal with the person because the store had not done what they said they would do. 
Yea it is a mess and I know how it works , and how they get out of dealing with a person so they do not have to do what they said they would do , the store that is. 
Call the police and tell them that they do not want them here and then make the person angry when the police show up. 
I for one do not go to best buy anymore as I know how it works.
Wait till after Christmas and you have to take something back , and have to get the store to live up to what they said they will do. You want to see angry! These store are getting worse at this as the economy gets slimmer and they will do what they have to do to not live up to there side.

If the store believes a shopper's credit card is fake, they better be right, and in this case they were wrong. What the store dis is similar to you getting cash from someone and telling them "I bet you stole it".

All I see on the video is the officer pursuing the shopper and the shopper backing away. I see the officer was aggressive.

The best remedy, of course, is do your shopping early and pay cash. If you don't like the treatment, such as the store checking your bag or some other bullshit, return the merchandise for a refund on the spot and shop elsewhere.

The Taser has NEVER been proven to kill ANYONE. And if you say it does, we will sue you.

However people do coincidently die of Excited Delirium (TM) shortly after being Tasered, but it is just a series of unfortunate coincidences. Perhaps several hundred unfortunate coincidences, but coincidences just the same. That's the amazing thing about coincidences, just how incredibly unlikely they seem.

And in this latest case, the woman is lucky to be alive because OBVIOUSLY the police were perfectly entitled to walk up behind her and put a slug into her temple. After all, she was raising her voice. Therefore, this is yet another life saved by Taser International Inc.

Now excuse me, I've got to get back to packing up the next container load of Tasers heading to some dark dungeon in some unknown little dictatorship.

I fear that Best Buy are one of a growing group of stores and other service industries that think of customers as things to be 'managed'. I've had some very negative experiences with this company and a search of the Web suggests that I'm not alone. The problem isn't really the individual employees, its a rigid system that removes any discretion from store employees (and so absolves them of any responsibility for the actions -- so long as they're doing it by the book -- literally -- they're OK).

The danger signs are stores where everyone's on first name terms but you can't find out who's in charge.

Anyway, she probably got annoyed at being stonewalled. Such actions can be fatal (remember the recent incident at Phoenix airport?). The best recourse is to have no dealings with these companies.

Dead
51 people have died in the last 8 months in Canada and the USA after being tasered.

42 people have been put to death in the USA for Capitol Punishment in the last 12 months.

Any questions ?.

Yeah, if they acted like adults instead of spoilt children that think the world revolves around them those 51 would still be walking.

Those 42 shouldn't of kill innocent people and they would still be alive now wouldn't they?

I had problems with Best Buy in the past and i didn't act like a friggen fool to get the problem resolved nor did i get tasered for my efforts. 

Act like an adult, don't get tasered.
Act like a spoilt child, get tasered.

See how it works?

Nice one Tom Welsh... if ya hadn't noticed my name... yeppers I'm a full blooded flaily armed crazy man, LOL.

This is a little crazy, and Tim Schroeder I do agree that people can get a little crazy when it comes to tech stores but I will say this... some back ground info, been in the IT field for 16 years now... One thing you forget is that there are sniveling snot nosed noobs that work in technology stores like best buy and since most IT who get talked down to often they (IT workers) enjoy to return the favor as often as possible to some unsuspecting customer and they do so by using techno babel and treating them like idiots which usually infuriates people. Technology fools even educated people and this can be very frustrating. Tasers are mean to subdue people who are being physical not people who are frustrated. 

Stop taking some valium and grow some passion dude.

"USA is becoming a f'ing police state."

'becoming' - where the hell have you been for the past twenty years... USA IS a police state. 

Then again... where else can a citizen attend a gun show, buy an automatic rifle, and go for target practice at his local mall, school, workplace, etc.?

Either way, from the vantage point of a moral individual it appears that the only thing that the USA leads the world in, the only thing that Americans in general show proficiency in, is embarrassing acts.

How is a Police officer to stop this then you anti taser people? Would you have preferred she was shot for not obeying Police orders?

If she was asked a number of times to calm down and leave and didn't.... and she is being abusive to those around her then she deserved what she got.

If someone started swearing at me and calling me names while shopping, guess what? They're going to get it! They wont get any warnings from a Police officer.

Seems to me there is a big huge market for antitaser body armor.
Simple rubber (think wetsuit) and molded plastic (motorcycle gear) should work just fine or if one is more fashionable, 10 gauge leather with a spray on rubber coating on the inside works well.