Officer Drags 77-Year Old Woman Out of the Car and Cuffs Her for Failing to Show ID
A policeman is being questioned by his superior officers after he dragged a 77-year old woman out of her car for speeding. The woman failed to produce her drivers license to the officer, which led him to feel it necessary to yank her out of the car.
The arrest was caught on video, and the Keene Police Department is currently conducting an investigation.
Lynn Bedford was clocked at 66 miles per hour in a 50 mph zone. Sgt. Gene Geheb pulled her over. That’s when the woman said that she told the officer that she had bladder infection. He kept asking for her id, but she refused. That’s when the situation got out of hand.
“Just hurry up; I have to go to the bathroom,” she said.
“Let me see your driver’s license and insurance, please,” the officer asked.
Several times, the woman kept asking to go to the bathroom.
“No, I want to see your driver’s license and insurance, please, and then I’ll listen to you,” the officer said.
“I’ll give it to you in a minute,” she replied.
“No, you give it to me now, or I’m going to take you to jail,” he said.
“Well, go ahead,” she said.
At that moment, the officer grabbed the woman and put her in handcuffs. He seemed to feel that the woman was being uncooperative and practically dared him to arrest her. Her attorney, Clay Graham, says that the officer’s actions were uncalled for:
“The officer is not very interested in listening to what she has to say,” Graham said. “She gets a little frustrated. And then he just overwhelms her. That’s what I see. And then it goes from routine stop to ridiculous stop.”
Bedford’s attorney says that the woman was injured during the arrest. But the Keene Police Chief, Rocky Alberti, is standing by the officer’s actions:
“This incident has been reviewed thoroughly by the Keene Police Department and the City of Keene Administration,” Alberti said in a written statement. “All parties have concluded that Sgt. Geheb did not violate any state laws or department policies, and in fact was following department policy in regards to violators not providing identification.”
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If that would’ve been a Black woman, she would’ve been bruised up or murdered!
THE PRIVILEGE OF caucasoid amerikkka! She’ll get off and won’t have to pay a fine.
Only news because she is from a perceived privileged group. Not newsworthy if she had been young, minority, or male.
Not to condone or to say it was wrong but generally the public has no idea what their rights are and what the police is allowed to do when it comes to situations like this. The police have a mandate by law that if you are being uncooperative when being asked a qusetion in any way that is perceived as a violation of the law. This woman is delaying to go by procedure that the officer has been trained to do when asking for the woman’s ID. This tells the officer when a driver tries to delay you this means they are planning to do drive away somehow or something else nefarious. Also the more she delays him the more this takes away from the officer from doing his job elsewhere. Bottom line if your stopped even if your liver just exploded while your handing him your ID tell him/her it’s a emergency and you will cooperate the best way you can but if there is a way to accomindate the both of you at the same time then ask him/her how. The woman was speeding past the speed limit so to copp a attitude and vent frustration towards the officer is wrong on her part no matter how old. Police officers are humans too with faults and egos so dismissing someone who is a part of the justice system is like telling them I have no respect for you or your badge.
@hellyweird: “Police officers are humans too with faults and egos so dismissing someone who is a part of the justice system is like telling them I have no respect for you or your badge.”
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So, what are you saying? It’s okay for these racist cracker pigs to shoot, beat and kill INNOCENT Black people, just because they wear a badge and a blue uniform? You know the color ‘blue’ is a gang color, and the ORIGINAL gangstas were the ‘bluebloods’, who were crackers!!!
Wake up you silly caucasoid!!! Every Black person ain’t falling for that bullshyt!
Go back to hellyweird, on Vine Street!!!!
Excuse me Derrick but this case is NOT about a innocent black person killed by a police officer,it’s a case of a woman not cooperating with a police officer for not obeying the law. By your logic and quoting me you feel that ALL police officers are a gang?! You obviously are a very disillusional and paranoid individual who thinks that if a police officer is doing his job he is breaking the law?! Obviously you see all of the police as a threat and not as protectors and servants of the law,which usually stems from someone who focuses on individuals in the police who have violated the law themselves. Or maybe you feel that the police are a gang from your own personal expieriences? I will never claim that every police officer
is a upstanding person who never would abuse their power. Never. Cause you know why? Because like I said they are human beings with human faults,foilbles and egos like the rest of us. There has and will be police officers who cross the line and take advantage of their power. But does that mean for the few that does that they all are? If one black person steals something are we all thieves? Bottom line Derrick police officers are the representives of the law…period. Any lawyer will tell you that if a police officer questions you,you are to comply with the officer and if you feel your rights are being violated while being questioned then you deal with that with your lawyer in court. It’s that cut and dry. And it’s the
law. So Derrick if you feel I side with the police you d**n right I side with the police! Because if there was no police then who do I call when a REAL gang has a shootout and instead of there intended target they kill a little girl?! You?!? Wake up son,the hostility you have for all police officers is misguided,they are the line between peace and anarchy.
you are very ignorant of some very basic facts, you need to do some un bias research. Start with the fact the the folks who defend police officers(can’t remember the name but u probably know) accused of crimes have a 99% sucess rate! This cannot be accomplished without corruption. There are many other stats. But the main problem is that respond based on what the feel and make independent judgements based upon on flawed human judgement. This officer had no empahty for her medical condition, he had options, he choose not to use them because he felt she was being uncooperative if he would have responded to her situition as a public servant it would have worked out instead he felt he was sooo important that she had to cow tow to him even if she did have a medical condition he and his job were more important than his mission to serve and protect. Police are needed in a society where one side has more than the other to maintain an unequal peace. Wake up!
Katie have you ever been given a ticket? When you are pulled over the officer asks for your iicence and registration and tells you why he pulled you over then he checks to see if you have any outstanding warrants if not then he fills out the tix.and your on your way. 10 minutes tops. The woman REFUSED to cooperate SEVERAL times when asked by the officer,so for someone who had to go to the bathroom why is she making it even longer to get to a bathroom? Do you realize or even comprehend when a officer is in this situation what it entails? You should do some research and view tapes of officers in the same situation where people are uncooperative. You have people like this who pretend to be finding there ID,who fidgets or explaining some grandiose excuse the ones who either are planning to drive away or to do harm to
the officer. And it doesn’t matter if they are 16 or 77. As a police officer there is that potential from ANYONE that they might do something nefarious. The officer has the right to be protective of his own safety to. If the medical condition was really that bad she shouldve had on some depends just in case. And lastly Katie the police are not your
personal servants where if you go to the bathroom they are suppose to wipe your a*s! And for the rest who feel that ALL of the police are gangs,corrupted
or otherwise sit back and ponder a society without them. Go ahead and stop chanting f**k the police to yourself and think on it.
For all the big time crime that goes on… major drug deals…drive-bys…scams….pimps….murders….etc. — this cop was wasting time and money messing with this old woman like that !!! I think the cop was just over-board on such a silly case. But that is not unusual these days for a lot of cops.
Ms.Miller there is no such thing as a minor crime. By your definition the woman had the right to speed? Ok let’s all just speed anytime we want! Forget school zones and let’s drive 75 mph cause that’s minor compared to a drug deal. Or let’s speed down a boulevard and run through a red light in front of that nursing home because that’s minor compared to a scam?!? Let’s just have the police only do crimes that are worthy?! Sorry ma’am we can’t send a police officer to your home just because your husband “threaten” to kill you,that’s minor. Call us when he does. Once you start catorogizing what’s major and minor eventually everything will turn to minor.
Hollywood… read what I said. I did not say… “she had the right to speed…” I did not categorize what she did. I said that the cop was OVER-BOARD in his behavior. That is it. The cop could have defused the problem…he could have listened to the woman before getting so “heated.” He could have given her a WARNING TICKET. He was over-reacting. How you managed to write a long paragraph on this is beyond me…but find something else to do…as you are also OVER-BOARD.
Ms.Miller you implied that she did have the right to speed when you said that the cop was wasting his time and should’ve been spending his time with “big crime that goes on”. What that implies from you is that when he saw the woman speeding he should’ve ignored it for a drug deal.(Read what you said first out loud and see if that’s not what it sounds like) also anybody who is stopped by the police generally have’s a attitude especially when you have to go to the bathroom. So to think that this woman didnt have or show it is ludacris. Could it be that BOTH of them was overboard? The officer was trying to give her a ticket but she REFUSED to give her ID several times. Let’s look at that word again…REFUSED. So how can he even issue a warning tix if he doesnt have her ID to write her info. on the tix?! Please read a article closely before you make ignorant statements. Lastly I don’t
know how long it takes you to write a paragraph but it takes me
less than a minute so it’s not a waste of time to respond to a
open forum like you just did, which also implies that you have
nothing else to do. Which in itself is ridiculous since you stated
your opinion too. If you don’t want a response in a open forum
then keep your opinion’s to yourself. Feel free to retort,I shall
return. This paragraph took a minute to write.
This is utterly ridiculous. ANDY OF MAYBERRY comes to mind. There was nothing so serious to require that this cop needed to use all that excess energy…he even called for backup. And then there is the TRAYVON MARTIN case …a dead body did not even prompt an arrest. Get outta here with this nonsense.
Well, let’s see now… our country is being threatened by the turmoil in the Middle East… getting bomb threats and other types of threats. Let’s see if you and that cops can find something better to do….now.
Ms. Miller you are way out of line to compare the Trayvon case to this. Its so ridicolous its not even worth to mention how their both totaly different situations. Your right with I wasted my time trying to have a debate.And then to make light and re-divert the conversation to the turmoil in the middle east to say that the local police should handle that? You certainly have delusions of graduer on a scale I have never seen before. Those people that tell you that you need help,you should heed there words and get it.
Seriously Ms.Miller get help.