ROCK HILL, S.C. – Police were reviewing whether it was proper for an officer to use a stun gun on a 75-year-old woman who refused to leave a nursing home where she’d gone to visit an ailing friend.
Margaret Kimbrell acknowledged she was distraught after unsuccessfully trying to visit a friend at the home Friday, but said the officer “didn’t have to do that. I didn’t deserve this.”
A police report said the woman tried to hit the officer.
Kimbrell said she became agitated when the staff would not tell her where her friend was, fearing he had died. The man was taking a walk at the time.
Police charged Kimbrell with trespassing and resisting arrest. Officer Hattie Macon, who joined the department about 18 months ago, remains on duty during the investigation.
“On face value, it looks like it was” proper, Police Chief John Gregory said.
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