John Antoine, an 86-year-old Tasered by a police officer while cooking soup, has been cleared of charges, a court ruled. The elderly man’s apartment had been raided by officers searching for his granddaughter’s boyfriend, said to be suicidal after running out of medication.
The incident took place while Antoine was cooking soup at his Brooklyn home back in October. Standing in the kitchen with a knife in one hand and an onion in the other, little did he imagine that a group of five armed police officers was about to break into his apartment.
The officers were looking for the 23-year-old boyfriend of Antoine’s granddaughter, as the young man was thought to be emotionally disturbed after he ran out of medication.
Elderly man making soup mistakenly stunned by NYPD cops, arrested; now cleared of charges https://t.co/pkKAPqOBbN pic.twitter.com/TjHX92f7Tr
— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) March 9, 2016
“The police came in and say, ‘You so and so, put down the knife,’ and I said, ‘Why are you coming in my apartment? What do you want?’” Antoine told NY Daily News. “They wouldn’t tell me.”
Seeing Antoine with a knife, an officer demanded that he drop it. But when the retired pipefitter turned to put the knife back on the table, he felt a sharp pain – one of the officers had fired a Taser into his neck and leg.
“I felt like I was dead,” the 86-year-old later said.
He was later taken to a near-by hospital, where doctors found him mentally fit.
“Just imagine you are a human being, to get this thing on your neck,” Antoine told NBC New York. “That comes as a nightmare.”
However, the suffering of the elderly man who just wanted to cook soup in his apartment was not over – officers said he was being charged with harassment for his refusal to drop the kitchen knife.
“The individual he [the officer who Tasered Antoine] encountered inside the residence was armed with a large kitchen knife and was in immediate proximity to both the sergeant and a three-year-old who was present in the residence,” an NYPD spokesman said.
Police added that Antoine “refused to comply with the sergeant’s commands to drop the knife, instead making statements to the effect, ‘I am not going to jail, I’m not going to the hospital.’ ”
The charges against the pensioner were finally dropped on March 7, five months after the incident. There is no information that any charges have been pressed against the officer who attacked Antoine.
The NYPD spokesman told NBC that “the responding sergeant demonstrated a level of intelligent restraint that is to be commended.”
I see neither intelligence or restraint on the part of the cops in this situation.
He was an extremely dangerous 86 yr. old with a knife. The pig had already soiled himself so what else could he do? He felt threatened that a butt muffin might roll out the bottom of his pant leg into the puddle of piss he was standing in.
“The NYPD spokesman told NBC that “the responding sergeant demonstrated a level of intelligent restraint that is to be commended.”
First of all, this is the police we are talking about here, so intelligence is not in the equation. If you are such a jellyfish, such a yellow bellied coward that an 86 year old man cooking soup scares you to death, you need to kill yourself.
Right on Bill.
It’s very simple: You’re a SICK BASTARD if you can taser an 86 year-old man.
And a sniveling coward if you feel you have to.
so they dropped the cHarges on the innocent , but havent levied charges on the guilty cop
yeah this country is just fine!
How much did Antoine lose to get his freedom?
How much did he have to pay a lawyer?
Did he lose his apartment and all his possessions?
Where are his retirement checks while locked away?
These things are never mentions in these stories.
*** The NYPD spokesman told NBC that “the responding sergeant demonstrated a level of intelligent restraint that is to be commended.” ***
Yes, let’s all applaud the brilliant and courageous hero who used a Taser on a 86-year-old man.
Are these really the same stinking, diseased vaginas who expect the public to support them? This sort of incident happens far too often, and the “justice” system condones it.
This is why I and others GLOAT whenever a pig gets killed anywhere in the US. They have no idea of the sheer hatred they’re generating. I predict that eventually there will be a spike in the number of people who give their lives to get the satisfaction of justice, much like the Palestinians who take revenge on Israelis.
Just think….
When you’re 86.
You might be lucky enough to sht in your own adult diapers.
Then be cleared of not knowing what the fk you’re doing.
Let alone making soup.
“The elderly man’s apartment had been raided by officers searching for his granddaughter’s boyfriend, said to be suicidal after running out of medication.”
Big Pharma strikes again!
Zombie apocalypse is inevitable.
“The individual he [the officer who Tasered Antoine] encountered inside the residence was armed with a large kitchen knife…”
Once these scumbag ICM enforcers start encountering individuals armed with GUNS (who are willing to use them), these stories are (likely) going to have much happier endings.