Nursing home resident dead after confrontation with police
Last edited Sun Jul 28, 2013, 01:20 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Source: NBC
A 95-year-old resident of an Illinois nursing home died early Saturday, hours after being shocked with a Taser and bean bag rounds in a confrontation with police.
Authorities said John Warna was a resident at Victory Centre of Park Forest, on the 100 block of South Main Street in the south suburb. He was threatening paramedics and staff with a cane and a metal shoehorn when police arrived at the complex, they said.
Police said they struck him with a Taser and bean bag rounds after he threatened officers with a 12-inch butcher knife.
Warna was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center, where he later died.
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FFS, if you have to use a taser and bean bag rounds on a 95-year-old with a cane and a shoehorn, you don't need to be in law enforcement.
This is murder, pure and simple. You don't use a taser on a 95-year-old who is so incapacitated he has to live in a nursing home. Any reasonable person would realize that the use of a taser AND bean bags rounds will result in death for someone of that age.
On edit: Oh but wait! This nonagenarian had a BUTCHER KNIFE! I guess they showed restraint when they didn't pump him full of lead.