Law Forum : Police bodycam footage of woman, 65, resisting arrest sparks outrage: 'If she was black she would've been shot'

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Police bodycam footage of woman, 65, resisting arrest sparks outrage: 'If she was black she would've been shot'

Police bodycam footage of woman, 65, resisting arrest sparks outrage: 'If she was black she would've been shot'

A 65-year-old woman assaulted a police officer and resisted arrest after refusing to pay an $80 ticket for a broken taillight.

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Twitter users are speaking out after a video of a police officer using a stun gun on a woman went viral, pointing out that she had “white privilege,” and had she been black, she would have “been shot.”


Mahira Dayal
Yahoo Lifestyle

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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talmbout white privilege


Woman, 65, tasered by police after fleeing then kicking officer who stopped her over broken light: 'You're not placing me under no arrest'

Woman, 65, tasered by police after fleeing then kicking officer who stopped her over broken light: 'You're not placing me under no arrest'

A 65-year-old woman was tasered after fleeing then kicking out at a police officer who stopped her over a broken light. Debra Hamil, from Oklahoma, has been charged after body camera footage showed her resisting arrest during the confrontation in the town of Cashion last month. “I don’t think that I

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...I don’t think that I deserve to pay $80 for something that is fixable and I can fix it,” Ms Hamil is heard telling the officer after he issues her a ticket for a broken tail light.


Tom Embury-Dennis
The Independent