Big bad cop tasers great-grandmother at traffic stop for resisting arrest!
AUSTIN, Texas - June 1, 2009 - Kathryn Winkfein, 72, drives to Austin about twice a month to do her shopping. But on a Monday afternoon, a Travis County Constable deputy pulled her over on her way back to Granite Schoals.
"Due to being a construction zone, and workers being present," Precinct 3 Constable Richard McCain said, "it was 45, she was doing 60."
Winkfein admits she was speeding in the dangerous strip of Highway 71 and Bee Creek.
"He explained to her," Constable McCain said, "sign the ticket stub, it's not an admission of guilt. It's a promise to appear in court. She didn't want to. She said, ‘Take me to jail.’"
That's when the officer says Winkfein exited her vehicle and didn't cooperate.
"She refused to get off the side of the road. I said to her, ‘Ma'am, you're under arrest.’ She used profanity," the constable said. He adds she got violent and the officer used a taser on her.
Winkfein showed Fox 7 her taser scars.
"Here and here. Two places, side by side. It's unreal. It's like an electric shock," she said.
A shock Winkfein believes she didn't deserve.
"I wasn't argumentative, I was not combative. This is a lie. All of this is a lie, pulled away from him I did not," she said, reading the arrest affidavit.
The great-grandmother was taken to the Travis County Jail, where she was booked for resisting arrest and detention. She was released shortly thereafter. Now, Winkfein has hired attorneys to protect her rights.
When asked if it was appropriate for the arresting officer to have used a taser, Constable McCain said that it was.