Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times

[Jplaya2023]

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. -- A Clay County woman's family said it's seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked


10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police.




The family of 56-year-old Emily Delafield said it would take the Green Cove Springs Police Department to court, according to a WJXT-TV report.

In April 2006, officers with the police department said they were called to a disturbance at a home in the 400 block of Harrison Street just before 5 p.m.

In a 911 call made to the Green Cove Springs, Delafield can be heard telling a dispatcher that she believed she was in danger:


Dispatcher: And what's the problem?

Delafield: My sister is waiting on my property.

Dispatcher: Your what?

Delafield: My sister (inaudible) is on my property trying to harm me.

Officers said they arrived to find Delafield in a wheelchair, armed with two knives and a hammer. Police said the woman was swinging the weapons at family members and police.

Within an hour of her call to 911, Delafield, a wheelchair-bound woman documented to have mental illness, was dead.

Family attorney Rick Alexander said Delafield's death could have been prevented and that there are four things that jump out at him about the case.

"One, she's in a wheelchair. Two, she's schizophrenic. Three, they're using a Taser on a person that's in a wheelchair, and then four is that they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutes," Alexander said.

According to a police report, one of the officers used her Taser gun nine times for a total of 160 seconds and the other officer discharged his Taser gun once for a total of no more than five seconds.

A medical examiner found Delafield died from hypertensive heart disease and cited the Taser gun shock as a contributing factor, the report said. On her death certificate, the medical examiner ruled Delafield's death a homicide.

The family said it plans to sue the Green Coves Springs Police Department now that it has all the reports regarding their loved one's death.

"We're going to try to compensate the estate and the family and try to get justice," Alexander said.

He said he believes the evidence weighs heavily in favor of Delafield's family and that justice will be served.

"I think that this evidence is going to show, along with some of the evidence we've collected outside of here, that there is no reason Emily Delafield should have died that day," Alexander said.

He said he plans to file a notice to sue sometime before the end of the year.

http://www.local6.com/news/14147512/detail.html


RIP

 

[Tyrinus]

Maybe they were just trying to charge the batteries in the chair so she could go home.

 

[Kritish]

I laughed.

 

[Ghostvirus]

I am pretty sure the first Taser caused her to drop her arsenal of weapons. Why 9 more times. It isn't like she is going to runaway.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

So much death.



Should I read this?

 

[TNC9852002]

I need to get myself a taser!

-TNC

 

[xwolverine2]

cops are getting taser-happy

 

[Jplaya2023]

I laughed.

WHY would u find this funny?

 

[C. Lee]

Read the report....it's not like 10 different officers tasered her....one officer tasered her 9 times....that one needs to be investigated.

 

[C. Lee]

WHY would u find this funny?

Because he is Kritish....that's his job.

 

[Kritish]

WHY would u find this funny?

You obviously don't know me. Oh and it's spelled you.

 

[Downhere]

Wow, what is with this crazy news...it keeps getting weirder and worse all at the same time.

 

[Addendum]

Maybe they were just trying to charge the batteries in the chair so she could go home.

t:

 

[BubbaGump]

Talk about killing a mockingbird...

 

[Tyrinus]

I found it amusing....besides someone that nuts doesn't really need to be around anyway.

 

[The Shredder]

Read the report....it's not like 10 different officers tasered her....one officer tasered her 9 times....that one needs to be investigated.

True.

That officer was more taser happy than Selina Kyle was in Batman Returns!

 

[EdRyder]

cops are getting taser-happy

Beats shotgun happy

 

[Hole Shot]

ok, now with this one, I don't think I'll be coming to the defense of the taserers.

 

[Badger]

Beats shotgun happy

Well when the end result is the same, I don't think it matters.

 

[Ghostvirus]

I would actually prefer the shotgun. It most likely won't take ten times to kill me.

 

[The Dark Guybrush]

well, she must have been asking for it..

 

[EdRyder]

Its an extreme case that this encounter resulted in the womans death.
Normaly people get Tased and survive, shotgun...notsomuch

In fact schizophrenic + wheelchair leads me to believe= Obese
Again,Heart Attacks dont normally occur when someone is getting tased

So yes-by all means Id rather they went Taser Happy on me than Shotgun Happy

 

[Badger]

If I walked away from it, then yes taser the hell out of me. If I'm not walking away from it, then your choice, I'm just as dead either way.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

well, she must have been asking for it..

you used to be "guybrush begins" right?
I don't feel so guilty about hating you now.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Its an extreme case that this encounter resulted in the womans death.
Normaly people get Tased and survive, shotgun...notsomuch

In fact schizophrenic + wheelchair leads me to believe= Obese
Again,Heart Attacks dont normally occur when someone is getting tased

So yes-by all means Id rather they went Taser Happy on me than Shotgun Happy

Your mathmatical equation for obesity is a little weird. Shouldn't Donuts+sitting=Fat. How does a mental condition, & Handicap equal obesity?

If I walked away from it, then yes taser the hell out of me. If I'm not walking away from it, then your choice, I'm just as dead either way.

I kind of figure this would go with out saying, but..