Ohio: Woman Gets Tased and Arrested for Not Wearing a Mask at Junior High Football Game


Logan, Ohio: Alecia Kitts, a woman who was at a grade-school football game, was filmed being tased and arrested by a school resource officer for not wearing a face mask in the stands. Ohio Governor DeWine said that the woman was asked to wear a mask and she said that she had asthma, and a plastic face shield was offered, but she refused. Police say the woman was arrested for trespassing as she refused to leave the premises. The use of force shocked others watching the game.

A woman at a grade-school football game in Ohio on Wednesday was reportedly tased and arrested by a police officer for not wearing a face mask in the stands.

The woman was sitting in the bleachers with her mother when she got into an altercation with the cop about mask-wearing at a middle school in the town of Logan, the Marietta Times reported.

Video of the incident, which was posted to YouTube, shows the woman resisting as the officer struggles to handcuff her for nearly two minutes before he deploys his Taser.

The woman, identified in the report as Alecia Kitts, repeatedly tells the officer to “get off of me,” the video shows.

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