Woman Tasered In Front Of Her Kids!!!

A police officer in the Syracuse, New York, area Tasered a 37-year-old mom repeatedly in front of her children during a routine traffic stop—and then arrested the mom, leaving the children alone in their family minivan for 40 minutes in freezing weather.

The incident took place in Onondaga County, New York, on January 31, but dashcam video of the incident only recently came to light.

According to a report at syracuse.com, what started out as a routine traffic stop escalated quickly when 37-year-old Audra Harmon challenged officer Sean Andrews assertion that she had been talking on her cell phone when he pulled her over. Harmon disputed that fact, as well as the officers claim that she had been speeding—doing 50 mph in a 45 zone.

An article at MSNBC.com describes the situation:

Harmon had been driving home with her 15-year-old son, whom she had just picked up from wrestling practice, and 5-year-old daughter. She said she was resting her right hand on her cheek as she pulled behind a sheriffs deputy to make a right turn onto the road where she lived. After she made the turn, the deputy pulled off the road to let her pass, then pulled out behind her with his lights flashing and siren blaring.
When Harmon got out of her minivan to show Officer Andrews that she wasnt in possession of a cell phone, and to ask to see video footage of her allegedly talking on the cell phone she didnt possess, the officer ordered her to get back in her car.

And then he pulled out his taser and said Im under arrest, Harmon said. I got back in the car and he said he wanted me back out of the car now. And I said Why am I under arrest? He then yanked me out of the car pulled his taser out and the first shot jolted me

According to Syracuse.com, Harmon was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and going 50 in a 45 mph zone. The district attorneys office dismissed the charges a month later—after watching the videotape, said her lawyer, Terrance Hoffmann.

Amazingly, the officer had justified Harmons arrest by saying she had obstructed traffic by getting out of her minivan.

As MSNBC points out, when Harmon was arrested, her children, aged five and 15, were left by the side of the road for forty minutes.

Harmon is suing the Onondaga County sheriffs office. Officer Andrews has been taken off street patrol and reassigned until an internal affairs investigation is completed, the sheriffs office said.

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[BabiBlu305]

The bottom line is.. even if she were being a bitch, Shes still a lady and he was rag dolling the shit outta her.. and she wasnt hitting or resisting like most ppl do.. She deff didnt deserve to be tazed. And this was i front of her kids?? He needs a tazer shoved up his ass.. Thatll give him the power trip hes lookin for.

[gspcdy14]

Only hearing one side of the story... and an officer doesn't have to show you anything, in most states, unless he/she wants to. It's a courtesy. Maybe you should have listened to what he was saying to begin with. Then you're kids would not have seen that. It was your actions, not his. But go ahead and sue. It's all people do now-a-days anyway. You should probably sue McDonalds too. It's their fault because of your body type as well.

[hobofam]

when the officer tells you to "STAY IN YOUR CAR!" its for a reason... when you come out its a threat.... then when he tells you your under arrest for not listening, you listen, not go back into your damn car...

[trooperchicago]

Again, this officer was in the wrong. It is this driver's constitutional right to see the evidence. This officer should be fired.

[BlabAtack]

@gspcdy14 YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP BITCH

[CuriousManatee]

Albeit, this wasn't nessessary, but she technically did "resist". She kept trying to go back in car and he had to forcibly pull her out. Ive been falsely arrested too, but just comply and deal with it in the courts. Resisting agaisnt the guy with the tazer regardless of whether you're wrong or right isn't going to do anything except hurt your case and possibly even get you hurt. If you had complied, you coulda sued this dickhead and without beign tazed.

[Albanikerteminde]

Fuck the holy cops.

Where I'm from there's no fucking way you'd get arrested for this kind of act the mother does.

Whats wrong about going out of the car? I can understand if it were a punk he pulled over, not a freaking middleage woman...

- Love the police in denmark, they don't think they're so holy and glorious like the american.

[TheZoelzer2]

This video is funny. She was tazered becouse she is an idiot. I don't feel sorry for her at all. It's not like the cop shot and killed her. Fuck the soccer moms.

[Xcorgi]

Cops are unstable dickheads who are just dying for a chance to taze people. Only a fucking retard gets out of the car to argue with one of these psychopaths.

[DjCrazyArms]

The police officer did nothing wrong. You are supposed to listen to the police. When they tell you to get out of the car, you get out. You don't sit in it.

[aobmike]

When a police officer says your under arrest, your under arrest. You dont get back into your car and you dont pull away from the officer when he tries to put you in custody. Lady got what she had coming to her.