US Police Pepper Spray 84-Year-Old Black Woman in Her Home
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By Staff Writers, teleSUR
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Sunday, Aug 28, 2016
The woman's son was also Tasered after running a stop sign. | Photo: AFP
Oklahoma police released a body cam video of an officer pepper spraying and hospitalizing an 84-year-old Black woman after shooting her son with a stun gun last week.
The Muskogee police officer first attacked the woman’s son for running a stop sign, and when he entered his mother’s house, they sprayed the elderly woman. The department’s attorney said that the action was justified “given the totality of the circumstances,” reported the Muskogee Phoenix.
The woman, Geneva Smith, is demanding an apology from the department, which also came under fire last year after an officer shot and killed a Black suspect.
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