Woman Tased by Stow Police Awarded $100,000 Settlement
Stow officials deny Chelsea Garrett's public statements that she was a victim of police brutality.
On Wednesday, Stow Mayor Sara Drew issued a statement disputing the accuracy of a recent news segment about a 23-year-old Akron woman who sued the city after being tased by Stow police. In the news report, released earlier this week by a local media outlet, Chelsea Garrett said she was the victim of police brutality when officers tased, handcuffed and arrested her after she almost clipped a police cruiser while driving. With her lawyer present during the TV interview, Garrett argued she was suffering from diabetic blackouts at the time of the Nov. 2011 incident, which caused erratic driving and inhibited her from following police commands. The city presented a different version of the events in its press release: "The day Ms. Garrett was …
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