One Nation Under Guard: White Overseer Tallahassee Cops Occupy & Terrorize Black People on Video - Attack Old Black Woman, others for Walking in Street [no sidewalk]

The Tallahassee Police Department moved swiftly Wednesday to get out in front of its latest controversy — the tasing of a 61-year-old woman in the back as she walked away from an officer in the middle of a city street in broad daylight.

The incident, which was recorded by an onlooker with his cell phone, prompted TPD Chief Michael DeLeo to hold a middle-of-the-night news conference to announce that the officer involved, Terry Mahan, was being placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal-affairs investigation.

TPD also released the cell-phone video, posting it to the department's YouTube channel. The nearly seven-minute video shows Mahan tasing Viola Young, who went motionless before falling face-first onto the pavement.  [MORE]