Georgia Cops Repeatedly Taser 57-Year-Old Teacher Who Called for Help

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This is just disgusting. There should be a criminal investigation of these two officers.

2 officers out of jobs in wake of repeated Tasering of woman:

Janice Wells called the Richland Police Department when she feared a prowler was outside her clapboard house in the rural west Georgia town.

The third-grade teacher had phoned for help. But within minutes of an officer coming to her backdoor, she was screaming in pain and begging not to be shocked again with a Taser. With each scream and cry, the officer threatened her with more shocks.

"All of it's just unreal to me. I was scared to death," Wells said in an interview with the AJC. "He kept tasing me and tasing me. My fingernails are still burned. My leg, back and my butt had a long scar on it for days."

The officer in question is Ryan Smith of the Lumpkin Police Department. Smith was called to back up an officer from the Richland Police Department because the sheriff's office in the county, Stewart, had no deputies to send.

Smith resigned as a result of the incident. The other officer involved, Tim Murphy of Richland PD, was fired for using pepper spray while trying to arrest Wells.

Their headline doesn't mention that one of them already found a new job.

Yet his former boss, Lumpkin Police Chief Steven Ogle, was shocked when he saw the video.

"I couldn't believe it," Ogle said. "You don't use it [a Taser] for punitive reasons, to prod someone. It was evident it was an improper use of force. He was an excellent officer other than that incident."

Smith resigned just as Ogle started the process to fire him, the chief said. Smith now works for the Chattahoochee County Sheriff's office.

Yeah, I'm sure he was just a wonderful officer, other than this one incident where he decided to torture this woman. Digby had more.

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[StanwoodSpartans]

Fuck Georgia.

I hate your god dam high taxes.

I hate your rude black people that hate white people for things white people did over 100 years ago. Cant stand there history bitching.

I hate the white people down there, there so fucking racist, and ignorant.

Your a bunch of republicans.

Youve given us President Jimmy Carter.

shall i continue?

[1975Aspen]

Georgia was the backyard of confederacy. It's the most redneck state that I have lived in. It has 1 in 13 in it's corrections system, the highest in the U.S., as compared to the national average of 1 in 31, the highest in the world. Georgia has the 3rd highest rate of home foreclosures in the U.S. Gwinnett County leads Georgia in home foreclosures and gang stalking -- Look up gang stalking, gang stalking TV, gang stalking survivor, cell phone stalking, Monarch II (pt twelve), on YouTube.

[tuxedo441]

This inbred, dumb cop quit before he got hired, but then rehired at some little hicktown. The Chief of police in that hicktown knew about his past but he hired him anyway. These useless Nazi cops are giving the good cops a bad name. The idiot on the video is only 22 years old, still wet behind the ears. It proves that he's not ready to be a cop just by his actions alone. He should have been prosecuted for this abuse.