Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Fresno, California – 78-year-old grandmother Mary Poole was brutally assaulted and pepper-sprayed by a police officer when she attempted to deliver cupcakes to her grandchildren at school.
The children’s parents are in the midst of a divorce and custody battle, so Mary wanted to do something nice for the children. She decided to deliver a gift in a neutral setting.
“I hadn’t seen my granddaughters for some time and I wanted to see them, and so I baked some cupcakes and bought some cookies for my granddaughters’ classroom,” Mary said.
When she arrived at the school she was met by a rude Clovis Unified police officer who told her that she was not allowed to visit the children because there was a restraining order against her. In reality, there was no restraining order against her and no legal reason to keep her out of the school.
The officer was either lying or was totally mistaken about the situation.
Mary obeyed the officer and left the school. She then pulled over to call her son and tell him what happened. While she was on the phone, she was again approached by the officer who became immediately confrontational. As with most police encounters, he refused to hear any explanation that she attempted to give him, but instead demanded immediate obedience.
When she tried to explain her situation, the officer became violent with her. Next he pepper-sprayed the woman in the face twice during the confrontation, as she was struggling to free herself from the attack. The officer must have seen her struggling for safety as a sign of resistance.
“He wouldn’t listen to anything I had to say, period. Every time I tried telling him anything…I mean, I was even telling him, ‘I’m 78 years old,’ before he grabbed me. He sprayed me with mace twice,” Mary told reporters.
“And I was very frightened, and I told him to call the police and he said, ‘I am the police. He jerked me out of my car with my left arm with such great force, and then threw me onto the pavement. From there he dragged me by my left arm up to the school grounds,” she said.
The officer’s attack left Mary seriously injured with several broken bones and a dislocated shoulder.
When all was said and done Mary was taken to the hospital and left with more than $180,000 in medical bills.
Mary Poole filed a lawsuit this week, alleging police brutality and elderly abuse.
John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he is also the owner of a successful music promotion company. In 2013, he became one of the organizers of the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled “Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance” at bookpatch.com.
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I grew up in Fresno and Clovis. It used to be a nice place to live,but now it’s a sewer pit.
WTF?
Their depths of depravity continues it’s inevitable downward slide/drop.
“The officer must have seen her struggling for safety as a sign of resistance.”
Is the author trying to justify the cop’s behavior? I hope his head rolls down the street along with the cop’s.
For God’s sake she’s an old woman with cupcakes. This stinking pig is a sick puppy who needs his ass kicked in a real bad way.
Fine example for the children officer Sir. I am sure they will think of you every time they see a cop. For the rest of there life’s. Oh One of those things is on our street. Call in our kid’s and lock the doors. We would not want them to see Gramma beat.
My mother has passed away, but if alive and this had been her, that cop would be dead.
Cops wonder why people call them “pigs”?!? These sick bastards have no respect for anyone! I guess beating up a 78 year old woman is what that psychotic bastard gets his jollies from. The family of that woman would be more than justified to track that bastard down and beat the living crap out of him!
I guess we know why schools now look like institutions/prisons
power struggles ensue when there’s a custody battle. each side believing they’re right, each side embellishing the situation, each side making mountains out of molehills, some lying, some misperceptions, accusations, pettiness but dysfunction nonetheless.
i’m guessing there’s more going on with the grandmother, her son, and the ex if she hasn’t seen the kids for some time. some mother in laws are down right pain in the asses. they don’t know how to stay in their own lane most of the time. emotions get in the way and we tend to side with our own and our own aren’t always truthful or were not truthful with ourselves.
an ex or soon to be ex mother in law will hear through the gossip grapevine what ex has said about their son or daughter and run with it using it to manipulate or milk the kids for information putting them in the middle of it but at the same time accusing the ex of doing the same. some are pretty good at hiding that fact from the rest of the family.
I feel there’s a lot more to this story were not aware of.
Every day it gets worse. And when you think it couldn’t, the next incident tops the last one in the most immoral and violent way. The khazar ‘jews’ are in the demoralization phase of the take-over and will soon move to destabilizing the country.
This is a war…there isn’t any other way to look at it.
-flek