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New video shows officer shove, taser 72-year-old grandmother

Fox News has obtained police video of the tasering of a 72 year old woman in Travis County, TX. The police claim that after Kathryn Winkfein was stopped for driving 15 miles over the speed limit in a construction zone, she disobeyed an order to sign the... ...full story at digg

from digg on Wed, Jun 10 2009

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