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Little old lady pepper-sprayed, dropped and repeatedly stun-gunned by Portland cops

She was 71 years old. She was blind. She needed her 94-year-old mother to come to her rescue.
And in the middle of the dogfight -- in which Eunice Crowder was pepper-sprayed, Tasered and knocked to the ground by Portland's courageous men in blue -- the poor woman's fake right eye popped out of its socket and was bouncing around in the dirt.

Worried a city employee was hauling away a family heirloom, a 90-year-old red toy wagon, she had the nerve to feel her way toward the trailer in which her yard debris was being tossed. Enter the police. Eunice, who is hard of hearing, ignored the calls of Officers Robert Miller and Eric Zajac to leave the trailer. When she tried, unsuccessfully, to bite the hands that were laid on her, she was knocked to the ground and was pepper-sprayed in the face with such force that her prosthetic marble eye was dislodged. As she lay on her stomach, she was Tased four times with Zajac's electric stun gun.
And when Nellie Scott, Eunice's mother, tried to rinse out her daughter's eye with water from a two-quart Tupperware bowl, what does Miller do? According to Ernie Warren Jr., Eunice's lawyer, the cop pushed 94-year-old Nellie up against a fence and accused her of planning to use the water as a weapon.
Police Chief Derrick Foxworth said "This did not turn out the way we wanted it to ... But I feel we need to recognize Ms. Crowder has some responsibility. She contributed to the situation".

[This week, Portland city agreed to settle Ms. Crowder's excessive force lawsuit out of federal court. More ...]

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