Handcuffed Danielle Maudsley, 20, brain dead after being tasered by cop
Updated: 22 Feb 2012
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Danielle Maudsley after her arrest (L) and unconcious in hospital (R).
A 20-year-old US woman who fell and hit her head after she was tasered by police remains unconscious in hospital five months after the incident.
Danielle Maudsley was arrested and taken to a Florida Highway Patrol Station in September after suspected involvement in a hit-and-run accident.
Trying to escape police, Maudsley, who was still handcuffed, ran out the front door of the station.
In footage filmed on a police car dashboard camera, Trooper Daniel Cole is seen tasering her in the back in an attempt to stop her from crossing the road.
Maudsley spun and fell backwards, hitting her head on the ground.
She tried to get up but blacked out and has been unconscious ever since.
Doctors doubt Maudsley, who had cocaine and ocycodone in her blood at the time, will ever wake.
Trooper Cole was cleared of any wrongdoing this week — a decision that has infuriated Maudsley's mother Cheryl, who claims she may sue the Florida Highway Patrol.
"Tell me that's not excessive force. I'm not saying she was an angel but she didn't deserve that," she told the Tampa Bay Times.
"He couldn't reach out and grab her? He was an arm's length away. My daughter is dead because of this. She won't come back."
Trooper Cole said he feared Maudsley may have been hit by a car and that tackling her may have injured both of them.
He told a Department of Highway Safety report he would not have done anything differently.
SOURCE: ninemsn.com.au
Danielle Maudsley was arrested and taken to a Florida Highway Patrol Station in September after suspected involvement in a hit-and-run accident.
Trying to escape police, Maudsley, who was still handcuffed, ran out the front door of the station.
In footage filmed on a police car dashboard camera, Trooper Daniel Cole is seen tasering her in the back in an attempt to stop her from crossing the road.
Maudsley spun and fell backwards, hitting her head on the ground.
She tried to get up but blacked out and has been unconscious ever since.
Doctors doubt Maudsley, who had cocaine and ocycodone in her blood at the time, will ever wake.
Trooper Cole was cleared of any wrongdoing this week — a decision that has infuriated Maudsley's mother Cheryl, who claims she may sue the Florida Highway Patrol.
"Tell me that's not excessive force. I'm not saying she was an angel but she didn't deserve that," she told the Tampa Bay Times.
"He couldn't reach out and grab her? He was an arm's length away. My daughter is dead because of this. She won't come back."
Trooper Cole said he feared Maudsley may have been hit by a car and that tackling her may have injured both of them.
He told a Department of Highway Safety report he would not have done anything differently.
SOURCE: ninemsn.com.au
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