by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:

Bethesda, AR — An Arkansas family just learned the hard way what calling 911 in a police state can look like. While there are certainly police officers who will heroically rush in to stop dangerous situations, there are others who appear to get off on asserting their authority and hurting people. The officer in the video below appears to be the latter.

Sunday night, Kandy Dowell and her husband Kevin got into a verbal argument and then made the absolutely terrible decision to call the police to get help solving it. Instead of help, however, they got a raging Independence County sheriff’s deputy who terrorized them and their child.

“It was just on from there,” Kandy Dowell said as the deputy arrived. “I mean as soon as that man broke through my threshold, he was aggressive. It was just awful. It was a nightmare.”

According to KAIT, Dowell said she and her husband, who has PTSD and depression, were arguing. Often, she said they will call 911 to defuse the fights — a decision they will likely never make again.

Kandy says that they’ve called 911 so many times for help with their arguments before that many of the deputies know them and know how to diffuse the situation.

But, she said that’s not what happened Sunday night.

“The man stepped out of his car with an aggressive demeanor,” Dowell said. “He did not listen to me at all when I tried to tell him about my husband’s mental illnesses.”

“He just pulled out his pistol and was like ‘get on the ground, get on the (explicit) ground, I’m going to (explicit) shoot you’ and I am just screaming and pleaded for my family basically,” said Kandy.

When her husband agreed to step outside and talk with the deputy, that’s when the cop raged and pulled out his taser, aiming at their child.

“That’s when I see that red dot hit my child’s stomach and I lost it. I was like, ‘He is so out of his mind, I think he’s fixin’ to kill my child.’ Aiming for my husband, but shoot my child in the process,” she said. “I was scared to death. I was scared for all of our lives.”

As the video shows, her husband goes back inside the house — likely fearing for his life — while she can be heard asking the deputy, “What is wrong with you?”

When the out of breath deputy fails at tasering the child and the father, he then turns his attention to Kandy as a last stitch effort to assert his authority. Fearing for her life, Kandy runs away and is saved when an actual rational and calm cop arrived on the scene — the sheriff.

Instead of immediately backing up his raging deputy and tasering or tackling Kandy, Sheriff Shawn Stephens deescalates the scene and nobody was beaten, tasered, shot, or kidnapped. Imagine that.

“We have respect for the right officer of the law that’s going to have respect back for you and your home,” Dowell said.

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