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September 2nd, 2015 
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Nancy Mason
Nancy Mason, a 60 year old woman, was arrested for stealing from the local mall. Upon being brought to the Hamilton County Jail she was searched and asked to remove her earrings. Mason refused and seven sheriff’s deputies began to surround her. That’s when Sergeant Rodney Terrell tased her, breaking her arm in three places. According to WRCBtv.com:
“I told her what was gonna uh that she was gonna be tased if she didn’t comply with, with being able to be searched and I tased her,” Terrell said in a May interview with Internal Affairs.
Mason screamed as she fell to the floor. After the taser’s five second deployment was up, Mason uttered “you broke my arm.” Terrell can be heard responding, “I didn’t break your arm, you broke it.”
“I hope no one ever goes through what I went through,” she said in an exclusive interview with Channel 3.
While some might believe that Mason should have just complied with the officer’s demands others would say that using a taser on a sixty year old woman – with six additional officers around for assistance – is excessive force. And while some of those six officers backed the use of the taser, others did not stating:
” Yeah honestly, the whole taser discharge was not according to training,” said Det. Roger Brown.
In a rare occurrence, the internal investigation concluded that the use of the taser was inappropriate.
Yet, even though some of Terrell’s own colleagues broke the thin blue line and I.A concluded inappropriate deployment of less-lethal device, he was merely given a reprimand. While Mason, who’s plead guilty and making right with her victim, is about to undergo surgery for the three broken bones in her arm. Is this justice?
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