Free Thought Project – by Andrew Emett
Harris County, TX – Caught on video deploying a Taser against a mother in a wheelchair simply recording her daughter’s arrest, several deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are under an internal affairs investigation for needlessly attacking the disabled woman. Instead of treating her like a human being, the deputies can clearly be seen grabbing her cellphone and throwing it away before tasing the disabled woman until she collapsed out of her wheelchair.
Last Wednesday, 36-year-old Sheketha Holman arrived at a Valero gas station in northwest Houston after discovering her daughter was under arrest for marijuana possession and criminal mischief. A surveillance camera recorded Holman in her wheelchair as she filmed her daughter’s arrest with her cellphone camera.
“I was taking pictures of them, and he was like, ‘Just leave the property, you’re trespassing. They don’t want you here,’” Holman told KHOU.
“I was like, ‘I’m trying to leave. I can’t take off running, but I’m trying to leave,’” Holman recalled. “‘Oh, you’re resisting?’ I was like, ‘I’m not resisting.’ That’s when I had my hands up like this.”
Despite the fact that Holman appears non-threatening in the video, a deputy can be seen abruptly snatching the phone out her hand before immediately tossing it away. Instead of using her cellphone footage as potential evidence against Holman or her daughter, the deputy appears to be obstructing justice by attempting to destroy evidence during an open investigation.
Ironically wearing a shirt with the words “Love, Love, Love” written across the front, Holman’s body suddenly seized up before falling out of her wheelchair and collapsing to the pavement when a deputy deployed a Taser against her. After repeatedly telling deputies that she was physically unable to comfortably place both arms behind her injured back, Holman dropped to the ground as deputies ignored her medical concerns.
Due to several years of severe back injuries, including back surgery and a hit-and-run accident, Holman relies upon a wheelchair and cannot understand why the arresting deputies felt excessive force was necessary against a disabled woman posing no actual threat.
“When I came to, I was like face down or whatever, and my leg was underneath me,” Holamn remembered. “They still was tasing me, man. That’s wrong.”
Charged with resisting arrest and trespassing, Holman is scheduled to return to court next month.
In response to the newly released surveillance video, the sheriff’s office recently released the following statement:
“The Harris County Sheriff’s Office has an open Internal Affairs incident report. It is currently being investigated by IAD personnel. When the investigation is complete, if any policies and procedures were violated, then disciplinary actions will be implemented. These actions may be suspension and or termination.”
In a recent interview with ABC13, Holman asserted, “I feel like [the officers] used the law to abuse a disabled person who can’t fight back. I think they should be punished.”
None of the deputies involved in Holman’s unnecessarily violent arrest have yet been identified or indicted.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-taze-disabled-woman-wheelchair-filming/#FcKzpvB52LBolbUL.99
“I was like, ‘I’m trying to leave. I can’t take off running, but I’m trying to leave,’” Holman recalled. “‘Oh, you’re resisting?’
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Not anymore, pigsh#t.
No need to resist a corpse.
“I feel like [the officers] used the law to abuse a disabled person who can’t fight back. I think they should be punished.”
Unchallenged.
As long as it’s by DEATH.
Nigger, beaner and a white trash cop all in it together.
Somebody should’ve shot these A-holes.
And still they wonder why the latest fad is Shoot A Pig In the Face. Ya can’t fix stupid.
Yep, they are to moronic to figure this out!
The sick bastards need to be shot.
What kind of demented freak would Taze a woman in a wheelchair?
The same kind that regularly murder innocent people, kick pregnant women in the belly, etc. etc.
The list of disgusting, and inhuman crimes committed by these stinking pig bastards is endless. They’re obviously psychotic, and the one who aren’t cover up for those who are, which makes every last one of them GUILTY.
They’re no different than MS-13, or any other gang of thugs, except for the fact that we have to PAY for these lunatics to be on the street.
“They’re no different than MS-13, or any other gang of thugs, except for the fact that we have to PAY for these lunatics to be on the street.”
JR, you nailed it on the head!
I just can’t understand why we keep having this argument; year after year. Police and police departments are EXPRESSLY forbidden by the Constitution of These United States .Why the f#$% do we keep allowing this? An elected sheriff is the ONLY law enforcement individual allowed under the Constitution; state or federal. Anyone else is a criminal! CLEAN THIS SHIT UP !!!
Even North Korea has a Constitution and the equivalent of a Bill of Rights. If a magic parchment can’t protect the people there, what makes you think it can protect anyone here? It is a “belief” that is the problem. When has any piece of paper protected anyone? People in this country have been indoctrinated in the belief that that parchment means anything to those that rule over you.
Read “A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard” by Lysander Spooner. It is only 9 pages and he lays out the illegitimacy of government created by the magic parchment. People place the Constitution next to the Bible in holiness. I ask you, why would a holy, honorable, and ultimately good creator create governments that demand honor above the creator and permits such institution to kill and steal which is against the Creators own laws? The ruling class makes constitution to make the slave class believe the ruling classes tyranny is done with the approval of the slave class.
And the pigs wonder why people of good conscience cheer every time we hear about one of them getting wasted. F–king pieces of crap.
If an armed bystander had been present at this assault, he would have been completely within his rights to grease those pigs. It could even be considered the DUTY of any armed citizen who witnesses such thuggery.