Strange but trueTexas cop uses Taser gun on 72-year old combative granny

In the early 1980s, during the vicious war in El Salvador, six American nuns, working for Catholic charities in that poor country, were killed at a road block by paramilitary thugs working for the country’s dictator, Roberto D’Aubuisson. This was an embarrassment for the Reagan administration which supported D’Aubuisson in his effort to suppress leftist insurgents in the country. Alexander Haig, then Reagan’s secretary of state, suggested to the stunned members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the nuns were probably killed because they had tried to run the road block.

Nobody, fortunately, was killed in Texas, but still. A combative 72-year-old Texas great-grandmother who got a bit “non-compliant” after being pulled for speeding, was stunned with a Taser gun, ABC reports.

Lester Haines reports that officer Chris Bieze collared Kathryn Winkfein en route to Austin doing 60 mph in a 45 mph zone. The Travis County “dashcam” vid shows Winkfield rather testily getting out of her vehicle to confront Bieze after refusing to sign the speeding ticket. She requests: “Give me the f***ing ticket now.”

Bieze responds by shoving the cantankerous septuagenarian “to keep her out of traffic whizzing by”, as he later explained.

Winkfein protests: “You’re gonna shove me?! You’re gonna shove a 72-year-old woman?”

Bieze replies: “If you don’t stand back, I’m gonna tase you.”

Winkfein suggests: “Go ahead, taser me.”

After issuing a few more warnings, Bieze tased Winkfield, and she fell to the floor. The video shows Winkfield screaming on the floor as Bieze insists: “Put your hands behind your back or you’re going to be tased again.”

Winkfein was cuffed and charged with resisting arrest. She later protested: “I was not argumentative. I was not combative. All of this is a lie. Every bit of this is a lie.”

Bieze’s boss insisted his subordinate had done everything “by the book.”