Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

September 3, 2009

The wave of casual Taser abuse by police may have crested at Glenrock, Wyoming, the site of an August 1 Taser attack on a 76-year-old man that nearly precipitated a riot.

Bud Grose was riding a tractor in a parade celebrating Deer Creek Days. Grose had been told to follow the same route used in previous parades; a police officer directing traffic tried to divert Grose in another direction. When Grose drove around the officer the policeman banged his hand and wrist against the tractor. Grose was eventually pinned in by a police SUV and shocked five times with a Taser.

The crowd that witnessed this unjustified assault with a lethal weapon surrounded the police and refused to permit further abuse of the innocent senior citizen. And public sentiment in the town of 2,400 has made it impossible for officials to file charges against Grose. Call it a victory for ?People Power.?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.