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Dec
22nd

Officer Uses Taser To Tame Best Buy Shopper - wesh.com

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A surveillance camera catches a police officer using a Taser to bring a customer under control in a Daytona Beach Best Buy Thursday. Many people are asking if the officer really needed to use 50,000 volts of electricity to calm the allegedly loud-mouthed customer down, WESH 2 News reported.Daytona Beach police officer Claudia Wright said the shopper was resisting arrest, but many people said Wright used excessive force.

According to Wright, she confronted Elizabeth Beeland, 35, about using a suspected stolen credit card.

George Crosley, is with Cop Watch, a group that polices police actions.He said he's stunned by the store surveillance video of the arrest."This is wrong, this shouldn’t have happened that way," Crosley said.Wright said Beeland cursed at her and acted aggressively.Police Chief Mike Chitwood said that Wright told the woman to calm down or she would be arrested, but Beeland didn't listen and disrupted the store's business."Even if you look at the video, when the officer stepped toward her after announcing she's under arrest, she's flailing her arms and retreating from the officer," Chitwood said. "Police work isn't pretty. It doesn't look pretty, but from where we sit, interviewing civilian witnesses and people may or may not agree, but she followed our policy, she followed FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) guidelines."But Crosley said he sees it differently."When the officer starts toward her, you don't see her threatening the officer, you see her backing off with her hands up," he said. "If she couldn't figure out how to handle it, she should have called for back up. The truth of the matter is, people have died as a result of being Tased."The officer hit Beeland in the stomach with the Taser darts and arrested her on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.Officials said Beeland had been using her own credit card.

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