Akron police taser woman near rectum ("electronic rape")

[Holly_Hobby]

An Akron mother whose daughter was shot with a Taser electric stun gun in the buttocks pleaded with City Council members today to make sure the officers are punished. Debra Twymon said the Taser left two holes — like a vampire bite — and burn marks just above her 25-year-old daughter's rectum.

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The incident happened Jan. 24 on East Exchange Street, after Sharea Twymon's boyfriend had been stopped by police and arrested. Twymon, a University of Akron student, went to the scene to ask about her car being towed and how to get her keys.

Debra Twymon said the officers — two Akron police reserve officers and two University of Akron officers — used racial slurs and physically assaulted her daughter. She said they ''electronically raped'' her with a Taser.

Twymon was found not guilty in a jury trial last month on charges of resisting arrest, obstruction of official business and disorderly conduct stemming from the incident.

http://www.ohio.com/news/44334652.html

[Lerkfish]

1. just ....wow.

I'm getting a little tired of the taser abuse by law enforcement in this country.

[RedCappedBandit]

2. Cops are just great folks

:eyes:

[Fleshdancer]

3. OUCH

I really don't know what to say about this. :grr:

[ThirdWorldJohn]

4. When the government and justice department stop caring....

about the average man and the rule of law, how can you be surprised when law enforcement does the same. It is a trickle down affect that we see happening and the little guy gets the bad treatment. If waterboarding was OK then why was holding a detainee on a leash wrong? Oh because there needed to be scapegoats so that the real torturers could continue and the lie of the USA as a great nation could be upheld. That is why torture is bad. It is corruption on a level that causes corruption on all levels.

[BeFree]

6. Yep

Trickle down theory of government.

[justinaforjustice]

31. You Are Absolutely Right.

It is terrifying to see the "trickle down" of the torture mentality throughout our government. When the top officials authorize torture and total disrespect for human dignity, that policy permeates every agency that deals with the public. The pervasive attitude of arrogance must be stopped. The Taser, which is an instrument of torture, is now routinely used against defenseless citizens.

[Soylent Brice]

5. K&R

[Javaman]

7. Almost killed him!!!

sorry, couldn't resist.

[EOTE]

11. Booooooo!

I like a good rectum joke as well as anyone. But time and place, man. Time and place.

[DS1]

8. Just above her rectum? Does she wear it on the outside?

[Holly_Hobby]

10. Anus? n/t

[Lance_Boyle]

13. An awesome blossom?

[Fumesucker]

14. Tasers work through clothes..

But I bet you knew that.

[Lance_Boyle]

17. the rectum is an internal organ

but I bet you didn't really care to know that.

[uppityperson]

20. I was trying to figure out how they could taser by anus, but rectum makes more sense.

Seeings how the rectum is the last part of the large intestine, and is inside your pelvis, layered over by muscles, skin, fat (some of us). So, hooking taser onto her buttocks technically is near the rectum.

Here is a picture for those who do not know anatomy:



Sincerely, pedantic uppityperson the nurse

[Lance_Boyle]

21. "buttock" is the term they should have used

as both anus and rectum are incorrect.

[RaleighNCDUer]

34. The problem with 'buttock' is that it is generally interpreted as the

butt cheeks, and that is a way different target than a sensitive organ.

[uppityperson]

35. The problem with rectum though is it is inaccessible to most tasering

unless someone were lying with buttocks spread so you could get to their anus, the rectum is inside the body.

Sounds like she got tasered on her butt cheeks.

I love this forum. Here we are discussing anatomy. Ah well, I hate taser happy cops. Seriously. Now, back to anatomy...

[Lance_Boyle]

55. a sensitive INTERNAL organ that cannot be reached through clothes

with a taser. The girl got zapped on the buttocks, not "electronically ass raped." Bunch of hyperbolic nonsense.

[uppityperson]

56. Tasing cops upset me, but so does hyperbole. (thank you, that's the term I

couldn't think of yesterday).

[Fumesucker]

25. In the popular vernacular, rectum is basically interchangable with anus..

Technically they are two different parts of the body but a great many people use rectum to mean anus..

[omega minimo]

46. That area is also the base of the spine -- not a great place for electric shock treatment!!

[Echo In Light]

9. Something tells me the Usual Suspects re defending authority at all costs won't be showing up today

[Ignis]

12. Cops can do no wrong.

That's the only tune they sing, and you can't expect them to sing it here.

Oh, I'm sorry, there's also the smash hit, "A Few Bad Apples"--formerly the #1 song at Abu Ghraib.

[BoneDaddy]

22. Yet you are suggesting the inverse is true

so that makes your argument equally illogical. hell, there are bad cops out there, nuff said but not every cop is bad, nor is it an argument to get rid of police.

[Echo In Light]

24. My view comes from many yrs of dealing w/ small town deputy dawgs

...who by and large don't have shit to do.

I've had both + and - experiences, but I'll be the first to admit some of those + encounters saved me some grief.

My band, along w/several others from around the state, used to throw three-day acid parties in this very rural area that's known for its intolerant, redneck cops...yet time after time, so long as they didn't see anyone leave the property (a few acres w/lots of people in tents/campers/sleeping bags) they never made any moves against us. And this was explicitly told to us by them.

Another time, tho, I was busted for possession only two miles away from that very location, and while being very quiet/camping w/the girl who later went on to marry me. Go figure.

[Ignis]

28. I suggested, "Cops do nothing but wrong?"

Um, where? :shrug:

[BoneDaddy]

45. That wan't sarcasm and innuendo?

If it wasn't, then I misread it. My fault

[Chulanowa]

29. [dupe]

[Chulanowa]

30. So who is it that lets the bad cops do their thing?

Who covers for them? Who refuse to testify against them, but happily testify for them? Who is it that happily sees their union dues be applied to benefits for bad cops?

Oh right. The "good cops".

BoneDaddy, we're not looking at individual police officers. I'm sure there are plenty ob upstanding "good guy" police. The problem is that the system itself is corrupt and protects the officers who abuse their powers, and the "good cops" are as much an integral part of that corrupt system as the actual bad cops. Get it?

[Ignis]

32. That's a great point.

Any position of authority is open to abuse, of course. The major problem we (as "civilians") face when dealing with corrupt police officers is not only their personal power, but the Blue Wall that prevents any other "Brother" from testifying against that officer.

There's a point past which the "Just A Few Bad Apples" claim becomes ludicrous, because the abuse appears systematic, and the tone at the top just isn't changing.

[BoneDaddy]

44. Yeah I get it

and if you want to have a discussion about systemic police corruption I would most likely agree with you on most points.

In fact I do not disagree with much of the responses I got because they were thoughtful and accurate. I am more responding to the black or white thinking that does occur regarding police officers. The all or none judgements that simply are not true.

Sure there are plenty of instances of corruption, many as mentioned above from smaller more isolated areas, but I have met many good cops and they are not part of corrupt precincts, nor do they cover for bad cops.

[Chulanowa]

47. Well, part of that is pretty simple...

even the "good cops" are men and women who volunteered themselves to enforce a shitty, discriminatory, and inherently unequal set of laws that favor the haves over the have-nots. You kind of have to expect a fair amount of bitterness towards the whole profession, sort of like what defense attourneys get.

[BoneDaddy]

49. I guees it all depends upon your experiences

in relation to police officers like it does with most instances in life. If you are poor or disenfranchised, my guess is that your experience would lean to the negative more than positive and the opposite may be true as well.

[Winterblues]

15. Bush* Cabal torture seems to have admirers on the local front.

Top down lessons learned.

[Echo In Light]

16. Like ripples in the pond, it definitely sends a welcomed signal to certain types

[Catherine Vincent]

18. Those sick cops should be fired and arrested

Why did they have to tase her there? And why did they have to tase her at all, she was only asking about her car.

Sick bastids!

[noiretextatique]

19. apparently there is a long history of this type of abuse

especially with african-americans in arkon, oh. shocking :sarcasm:

[obliviously]

26. lawsuit?

I think someone could make a lot of money on a lawsuit here. I have a suggestion on where these police can keep their tasers!!

[noiretextatique]

27. lawsuits actually do force change

i remember one infamous case in los angeles in the 1970s...Eula Mae Love. she had the knife because the utility company was cutting off her service.

Birth: Aug. 2, 1939
Louisiana, USA
Death: Jan. 3, 1979
California, USA

Eula Love was killed by LAPD officers in an extremely well known "bad shooting" in 1979. Love had threatened the officers with a knife and threw it at them when they told her to drop it. While the officers were cleared of any wrong doing, her survivors won a big settlement against the city with the help of attorney Johnnie Cochran. Love's death was the first in a long line of officer involved shootings that eventually lead to a complete revamping of how law enforcement deals with "use of force", especially in how it relates to people not armed with guns and people who are mentally ill.

[SerfinUSA]

23. They used to be able to shoot nets over people

but it was said that that was like trapping an animal an inhumane. Perhaps we should try it again. T

"Don't taze me in the rectum bro!"

[Evoman]

33. Yeah, but did he roll up her car window after tasering her?

You know, to make sure it didn't get rain in it? :rofl:

[ret5hd]

40. rofl, 'cause i get it.

[TheCoxwain]

36. Punishment - Taser the BALLS of those cops

[Wednesdays]

37. K&R

:kick:

[Ignis]

38. Ugh, read the comments to that article.

It's like Freepers on Crack:

"I agree that we should just pull all the cops out of the ghetto and let all the thugs kill each other."

"There is an easy solution to this. APD stay out of the black neighborhoods. If they don’t want you there. Please pay more attention to the neighborhoods that do want you there. Let the blacks worry about there own problems. They would help you solve a crime anyway. Someone could get shot, and there can be 10 witnesses and not one saw or heard anything. Let them worry about them their own problems."

"DON'T INTERFERE WITH POLICE BUSINESS AND THE POLICE WONT TASER YOU. IT REALLLY IS THAT SIMPLE."

"Your right! All that has to happen is for a cop to stop them regardless of the reason and the police are met with the "whatca stoppin me for" victim chants and hostility. They bark when a gun is used because "ya didn't not has to shots and kills them". But when you then use something non lethal then they claims "yo I's been raped"."

"I don't know what happened with those police, they such good boys, I know their mommas didn't raise them like that... how about the shoe fits both feet ghetto scum.Sucks when someone uses YOUR excuse before you, huh???"

"If you commit a crime, you should be punished. If you hang out with criminals, what else to you expect to happen? If you lie with dogs, you are bound to get fleas!"

"I have no pity for the girl. The police don't jes' tase folks for the fun of it.
We already enjoy a multitude of fine colored police officers, who do an excellent job. Is the coalition suggestin' they are inept?? Or is their goal to reintroduce a quota system?
It certainly sounds like they want a quota system for arrests. Problem is, that there isn't as much crime comin' from the opposin' neighborhoods."

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[noiretextatique]

41. sounds like 1949 instead of 2009

this woman's "crime': asking about her car and keys

[Hepburn]

39. Geeeeeeeeeez...

...and some people wonder why others hate cops.

Having been a war protestor in the 1960s....need I say more?

Fuck them and what they did...the assholes NEED to be fired.

[noiretextatique]

42. i struggle with my feelings about cops

one of my earliest memories is looking out our front window while cop cars rolled down our streets with shotguns hanging out their windows. i was five, and the watts riot was happening, just not in our neighborhood. i suppose that was preemptive policing. i have been harassed several times by cops, including one recent stop for driving without lights on a busy downtown street. i went ballistic on the two cops who stopped me...i was just TIRED of it.

on the other hand, i've had some good experiences with police officers too. still...there is that long, and inglorius history of white police officers shooting unarmed black people that i can never forget.

[Indy Lurker]

43. Clearly misuse

if she wasn't resisting arrest. I don't know about the ''electronically raped'' part. Tasers do not shoot accurately (they don't need to) so unless they shot here from 2 ft away, the location of the "hit" was just bad luck.

Bad cops need to be punished, whether they are using a taser, pepper spray, or a baton. The tool of abuse is unimportant.

[BlueIris]

48. Jesus Christ. When are police going to be prohibited from using these evil devices?

This sort of brutality is just vile.

[Tim01]

50. Are you more comfortable with clubs and saps?

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[ShortnFiery]

51. Having endured graduate seminars in abnormal behavior and exotic disorders I thought I heard

it all ... I was wrong. :wow: :(

[JonLP24]

52. I must say (unrelated to article)

Some perspective is cops are just humans trying to live and survive just like the rest of us. No cop is 100% perfect, many if not all are compromised to the institution they belong to like the rest of us, some including entire units(in the past atleast) are truly corrupt and abuse their power. They have the same postives and flaws we have. There is also a human perspective when it comes to the criminals they chase. Not all are completely bad, some are actually good people that have families they look after in unfortanate situations. Truly bad people in every profession. With that I am the first person to speak out against police corruption, unprofessional conduct, because I experienced asshole cops myself. Growing up I was seriously in the wrong place at the wrong time, anyways the cops were calling me asshole, dumbass, liar, among other things when I was only 17 but I was vehemently denying what I was accused of. I can give you the whole story if you like but for now trying to keep the post as short as possible. Like the previous poster mentioned there is a blue code of silence, even some departments went as far as refusing to disclose officer names in regards to shooting incidents, kind of hypocritical when you're asking citizens for information leading to arrests. Anyways I'm just babbling but am trying to put a human perspective into this as well as all walks of life because in the end we're all just trying to live and survive in this complicated world.

[datasuspect]

53. hey, cops have a hard, thankless job, dontcha know?