Cop cruelly blasts 84-year-old black woman in the face with pepper spray — in her own home

[sheshe2]

VIDEO: Cop cruelly blasts 84-year-old black woman in the face with pepper spray — in her own home



The Muskogee police department in Oklahoma has released video of a police officer using pepper spray on an elderly woman.

Body-cam video of the incident shows an officer using chemical irritant on 84-year-old Geneva Smith last week in her house. The video was given to local news outlet FOX23 this week.

Officers were following the woman’s 56-year-old son, Arthur Paul Blackmon, for running a stop sign. Blackmon led police back to his mother’s house and entered, refusing police commands to stop.

An officer kicked in the door and entered the house, and shot Blackmon with an electrical stun gun while he had his hands raised.


Six other officers entered the residence, and Smith emerged from a room before being ordered to turn around. About 40 seconds later, an officer uses pepper spray on her.

Video at the link:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/cop-cruelly-blasts-84-year-old-black-woman-in-the-face-with-pepper-spray-in-her-own-home/

She is 84 years old! What the hell? F**kers!

[msanthrope]

1. Brave officers. If an 84 year old causes them to lose their shit, maybe they should find

another line of work.

[sheshe2]

3. You are exactly right, msanthrope.

I can't even imagine the pain and fear Geneva felt. That could have triggered a heart attack then and there.

[msanthrope]

4. She could have died, but I also hope the other officers realize that having

a loose cannon like that around them is bad news.

Six cops.....and not one had the command authority to talk to an 84 year old woman, calm her down, and behave in her home. Not one. Cowards.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

49. Get real. If one police officer can't calm an 84 year old woman diplomaticly, then

then one police officer can hold her in place just fine.

Big deal if the stop sign runner escaped. They have his address.

[chillfactor]

52. oh get off your high horse...

obvious that you are a gunnie

[mysuzuki2]

63. Ther job is not to abuse elrly women.

If you support he actions of this officer, you need to look in the mirror and give some thought to what kind of a person you are.

[Canoe52]

65. I think the website you want

Is way over there....no a little further right...there you go, yep, way over there, to the right...

[awoke_in_2003]

70. Your post

reminds me of the scene in Goodfellas when Deniro was sending Karen down the street to pick out a dress

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. ..

[Rex]

5. Ugh!

[sheshe2]

7. What a tough guy.

Took an 84 year old woman down in 40 seconds. So brave.

[Rex]

10. I don't get why aggressive action was needed, I see nothing in the story to indicate the need.

We just have to remember that although most cops are good folks, there are some real ASSHOLES on the force that like to make others miserable.

They need to be weeded out ASAP.

[kristopher]

17. I no longer believe that.

Their personnel recruitment tools allow them to select for the qualities they want. They are deliberately selecting for lack of empathy and willingness to place group loyalty above all else.

[Mariana]

71. If most cops were good folks

most of the assholes would already have been weeded out. The good folks would be taking care of the problem. They aren't.

[scscholar]

29. I didn't think it was a guy

Of course my Internet connection is so slow that I'm seeing about one frame every ten seconds and the video and audio were skipping, so I could be wrong but that isn't what it looked like to me.

Plus, this situation was probably even worse than reported because keep in mind that this is from Fox.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. for running a stop sign...

[sheshe2]

8. I have to say.

I am shocked they are not on the way to the morgue right now.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. At same time a white guy can brandish a firearm & be peacefully arrested. No spray. No bullets. ..nt

[Ilsa]

22. Yeah, they just wait them out.

No nanpower expense is goo great in playing the waiting game for non-POC.

[nadine_mn]

36. that is what stunned me - kicking in a door for running a stop sign

and pepper spraying an elderly woman after using the taser on her son.

[chillfactor]

54. go away already...you are becoming boring n/t

[radicalliberal]

9. Absolutely sickening! n/t

[rurallib]

11. what's the use of carrying stuff like if your not going to use it?

You know, like Trump said about the nuclear bombs - what good is having them if you don't use them once in a while.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Seven officers couldn't handle 56 yo guy and 84 yo woman without help from weapons?

They really do need to "find another line of work" or go through double time training in "community policing".

Too many officers think they are there to [font size = "+1"]lay down the law[/font] rather than [font size = "+1"]serve the community.[/font]

[Rex]

14. Now what would give you that idea, citizen?

You causing trouble, citizen?

[PatSeg]

31. And Trump says we need

MORE cops. So many videos that we've seen have shown an excessive amount of police for even the most minor infractions. The number of cops that showed up in New York for the illegal sale of loose cigarettes comes to mind. What the hell!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

48. You are very confused.

The Judicial system lays down the law.

Police are not judge, jury, and executioner as they so often act when they lay down the law.

Serving the community would be to not apply 7 cops to chase one black guy simply because he ran a stop sign.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

51. The more cops the better? Are you an Authoritarian Follower?

Between cops pepper spraying 84 yo women and busting 20-somethings for a joint, there never seem to be enough of them to arrest Breitbart Chief / Trump Campaign Chief Bannon for voter fraud in Florida.

[citood]

16. Dumb question - Why did they tase the teen at the 1:05 mark?

[sheshe2]

18. It was Geneva's 56 year old son.

He ran a stop sign while black.

[citood]

26. Need to get my eyes checked...and ears cleaned

His hands were up...and the police gave him around 1/32 of a second to comply, before tasing him.

[sheshe2]

28. His mom got 40 seconds.

They both were on the floor in pain seconds after they knocked the door down.

&^%$%^&*()

[niyad]

19. SEVEN f****** officers because some guy ran a stop sign? are you KIDDING ME???????

[sheshe2]

24. Geneva could easily have died from their vicious treatment.

She is 84 and black.

They are sniveling cowards that should be fired.

[niyad]

25. as was commented earlier, it is a wonder that mother and son are not in the morgue.

[malaise]

69. Some would call it a war on African-Americans

unfuggingbelievable

[DawgHouse]

20. That poor woman! Totally uncalled for!

[unblock]

21. can't they just mail the guy a traffic ticket? and/or boot the car if he's got outstanding tickets?

whatever happened inside the house, i don't understand the forcible entry in the first place.

[TheBlackAdder]

23. I didn't know running a stop sign and not listening to officer's commands warranted door kick-ins.

[CrispyQ]

27. I am so sick of reading this shit, over & over & over. -nt

[raging moderate]

30. Beneath contempt.

I wonder if it might have been unconstitutional? The right to be secure in their own homes, etc. This lady was assaulted and injured in her own home suddenly through no fault of her own.

[PatSeg]

32. I was wondering if

it was even legal to ENTER that house. It sure didn't look legal to me.

[raging moderate]

35. Yeah, me too.

Why didn't they have to get a warrant? I remember watching a movie made just before the Second World War. In this movie, a Nazi spy jeers at the United States because the American police have refused to force entry into a home because of constitutional rights. "Even a child can refuse to give them entry; how weak!" Later in this movie, the wisdom of the Constitution is shown as the Nazi spy's arrogance proves to be his undoing, and it is suggested that this arrogance will prove to be the undoing of the German Third Reich. Now, arrogance and American Exceptionalism are prized by the Right Wingers. In a high school where I worked, a poster on the wall exhorted the students that pride was a great quality that caused people to win and succeed and become Number One. When I was a girl, we were taught the Bible verse (Proverbs, I believe) that says, "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
If we truly uphold the Constitution, even a child or even an 84 year old lady have Constitutional rights.

[PatSeg]

38. Entry without a warrant

is something we see brought up often in cop dramas. It is practically a cliche, where a cop has to pretend he hears someone in distress inside as an excuse to forcefully enter a residence. It doesn't sound like the cops in this case even hesitated. All this over a traffic violation? Perhaps the same rules don't apply in a minority neighborhood.

[chillfactor]

56. probable NOTHING!

[rockfordfile]

33. There's something wrong with our Police Departments

[SwankyXomb]

34. MurderKops do as they please

If not for video, we might not even know about this.

[GeorgeGist]

37. Another sociopath has found it's calling.

[zz-la]

39. whatever happened to just getting a warrant

If the guy was only guilty of running a stop sign and then refused to stop and went home, just get a warrant. I am pretty sure they could have retrieved the necessary information to get the warrant. Instead they had to kick open a door and assault an 84 year old woman. So stupid and unnecessary. Cops always seem to be on roid rage, and just go blinding mad, instead of doing what they are supposed to do and that it deescalate the situation.

[chillfactor]

58. we have a troll in our midst!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

62. Certainly seems so. It created a new account to make 13 rapid-fire posts in this thread. . . nt

[uppityperson]

59. Don't you ever give up? Maybe try crocheting little animals from yard spun from laundry fuzz.

That's a more productive hobby!

[burrowowl]

66. The Police are Amok! Sad!

[DLevine]

67. Those cops should be ashamed to show their faces in public.

Instead, they are probably patting themselves on the back for a job well done. After all, they are all that stand between us and all those scary great-grandmas minding their own business in their own homes.

Cowards need to find a job where being cowardly doesn't put other people's lives at risk.

[smirkymonkey]

68. Sickening. What an outrage!

This is so wrong, but I won't hold my breath until these assholes are punished as they should be.

[niyad]

72. and donnie douche says he will just turn the cops loose to fix things.