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Police Taser 87-Year-Old Woman Snipping Dandelions For A Salad; Police Chief Defends

Joseph Curl

An 87-year-old grandmother who was using a knife to snip dandelions for a salad was tasered in the chest by police — and the chief of police defends the use of force.

Martha Al-Bishara was clipping the weeds last Friday in the woods by her home in rural Georgia, about 80 miles north of Atlanta. That’s when an employee at a nearby Boys and Girls Club called 911 to tell police that a woman was walking around with a knife.

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