Georgia police use taser on 87-year-old grandmother cutting dandelions for a salad
Last week, 87-year-old grandmother Martha Al-Bishara was using a knife to cut dandelions in the woods near her rural Georgia home, which also happens to be near a Boys and Girls Club, when an employee called the police, concerned about the old woman with a knife. Upon their arrival, two Chatsworth officers along with Police Chief Josh Etheridge repeatedly asked Al-Bishara to drop the knife. Etheridge said he took a knife from his pocket, showed it to Al-Bishara, and “threw my knife down on the ground, trying to make her understand what we wanted her to do.”1 But she didn’t...
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