Police use electric discharge on woman who refused to wear mask at son’s football game – Observer

Police in Logan, Ohio, used an electrically charged pistol against a woman who refused to wear a mask while watching a football game where her son was playing.

The most acute moment of the arrest, which took place on Wednesday, was recorded on video. In it, you can see how the policeman, identified as “Agent Smith”, tried to handcuff the woman in question, later identified as Alecia D. Kitts. In the face of her resistance, and less than two minutes after the suspicion had started resisting that arrest, the police used a taser, that is, a pistol with a non-lethal electrical discharge. Only after this measure did the police manage to detain that woman.

According to a report by the Rogan Police Department, the Alecia D. Kitts concerned was breaking the rule of grouping schools in that Ohio county, where masks are mandatory for sporting events, including outdoors.

Also according to that report, after being approached by a policeman who was posted on that sports venue, who urged her “several times” to wear a mask, the woman in question refused, claiming she had asthma. The agent then urged her to leave that place, warning her that if she did not, she would be temporarily detained for the crime of invasion of that land.

“After trying several times to get her out, Agent Smith told her that he was arresting her for the crime of trespassing and asked her to put her hands behind her back several times, which she refused,” reads that note.

The police also note that Alecia D. Kitts “was not arrested for not wearing a mask” but because he is “continually disrespecting the rules of the school” and because he “refused to leave the premises” after having received orders to that effect. The “use of force”, underlines the Logan Police Department in that statement, only happened as a result of resistance to arrest.