Cincinnati cop tases woman who was on her knees with her hands in the air

A Cincinnati police officer is in a spot of bother after he tased a woman who was on her knees with her hands in the air at the time.

Celeste Thomas was a passenger in a car involved in a traffic accident when Officer Anthony Plummer decided that full submission to his authority shouldn’t preclude firing 50,000 volts of electricity into her body.

For a change, local police authorities aren’t doing their usual trick of saying they did nothing wrong. “A preliminary review shows he is not in compliance with our standards and he is being investigated for unnecessary and excessive use of force,” Police Chief Thomas Streicher told the media.

Policy dictates (as it does with most US police forces) that a Taser should only be used if a suspect is resisting arrest or has assaulted the officer.

It gets better: Officer Plummer has been subject to multiple use-of-force complaints previously, and was once fired from the force on the very same grounds, but was later reinstated after an appeal.

But there’s even more, because it turns out that Plummer picked the wrong person to tase: according to UPI, Thomas “is a daughter of City Councilman Cecil Thomas, a former police officer who heads the council’s law and safety committee.”

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