Singing Grandma Thrown Off Train Gets Support of Local Officials "TALK ABOUT THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN" THEY DID LITERALLY! The nerve of some people! Meet Emma Anderson, The 82-year-old grandmother who was captured on camera being thrown off a train for singing, has gained the support of officials in her Florida county.
Anderson’s family said she was injured when a privately employed Miami-Dade Transit security guard yanked her from her seat and escorted her off the train. The Feb. 20 incident was captured on a cell phone video that has sparked outrage, and left Anderson’s family considering legal action.
“By what we saw on the footage, she was dragged off the train. She wasn’t escorted,” Anderson’s son, Kenny Anderson, 42, told ABC News. “She was just singing to the Lord, preaching to the Lord, and he grabbed her bag and drug her off the train.”
Miami-Dade County commissioner Audrey Edmonson said she has requested an investigation and that the private security guard will be banned from working in any county-owned facility.
“I think that that is something we should not tolerate,” Edmonson told ABC News’ Miami affiliate. “From what I witnessed on the video, I was appalled. Appalled that we as a county could hire a security company who has a lack of sensitivity.”
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos issued a statement apologizing to Anderson and saying the “situation should have been handled with more care and common sense.” Miami-Dade Transit officials have expressed regret that Anderson had to be escorted off the train, but said she was not following transit rules, which prohibit singing.
The Anderson family said they have hired an attorney and plan to pursue legal action. And they SHOULD!
SIMPLY HORRIFIC!, Transgendered Woman TASERED by cops in the crotch when she revealed she was born MALE!
A transgender woman claims she was tasered in the stomach and the crotch by rangers after they found out she was born a man. Brooke Fantelli, 43, of Romano, San Diego, was stunned by the taser gun by the Bureau of Land Management while she was participating in a photo shoot in the desert near El Centro late last month. During the disturbing incident, which was captured on cell phone, Ms Fantelli can be seen standing with her hands up talking to police before they taser her in the stomach. She is then seen rolling around in agony on the ground before the rangers taser her for a second time in the crotch.
Speaking to News10 about the incident, she said: 'There's no way to put it, it's just plain out brutal, plain out brutal.' She said the BLM ranger ordered her to lie down in the dirt but she refused, though she did tell him she would not resist being arrested. She said: 'You can see I'm obviously not threatening him as my hands are in the air.'
Ms Fantelli said the ranger allegedly first accused some in her group of taking nude pictures in the desert and demanded everyone's IDs. The 43-year-old said once the ranger saw her license - which still has her registered as a man - everything changed. She told News10: 'He actually looked me straight in the eye and says, "You used to be a guy", and I said, "Yes, I did". There was no way around it. I could see it in his eyes. He wanted to tase me. 'I wasn't giving him any problem. He's got another officer there with him. All he had to do was put the handcuffs on.'
The rangers eventually arrested her for public intoxication. VIDEO:
The BLM issued a statement to 10News which said their ranger acted appropriately. It also said: 'When deploying Tasers, rangers target the subject's lower center mass, legs or back if possible. It appears the ranger targeted appropriately in this case.' Ms Fantelli is allegedly filing a civil lawsuit.
According to LGBT Weekly Brooke Fantelli was previously known as Rodd Fantelli, and was a well known off-road race driver who won numerous races. She owns Fantelli Racing Products in Ramona, a custom off-road fabrication shop with 20 years of fabrication and racing history – she’s still a well known figure in the off-road racing community.
