Two Kansas City police officers have been reassigned to administrative duty while the department investigates the recent use of a Taser to subdue a 66-year-old grandmother.
The investigation is expected to take two to three weeks, authorities said Thursday.
The incident under investigation started shortly after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday as the two officers were responding to a disturbance call near 50th Street and Euclid Avenue. Louise Jones had pulled up behind the officers, who were parked in front of her home. She honked her horn at the officers — accidentally, she said later.
The two officers confronted Jones about the horn, left to address the disturbance call, and then went back to Jones' home to write her a ticket for “improper use of a horn.”
Words were exchanged and a tussle ensued between Jones and the police. One of the officers pulled out a Taser and stunned Jones with it. The officers then arrested Jones and her husband, Fred Jones, 75, who had intervened on his wife's behalf.
Departmental policy allows officers to use a Taser in situations where a suspect refuses to obey verbal orders but is not actively resisting arrest. The policy also states that Tasers are to be used “only as a way of averting a potentially injurious or dangerous situation.”
The current investigation will determine whether the officers acted in accordance with department policy, authorities said.
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