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If you’re in Fort Worth and you head down Loop 820 until you’re just about in North Richland Hills, you’ll find a little place called Redneck Heaven. The name is a self-conscious, somewhat tongue-in-cheek reappropriation of a term often used to disparage white Southerners — on
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They had only managed to get one wrist cuffed when the officers became worried by the other customers who were beginning to circle around, particularly the two who were cursing and yelling loudly at police while inching ever-closer. To bring things to a quick resolution, and to avoid getting clocked by the dangling steel handcuff he worried Menard might swing, mace-like, at his head, one of the officers pulled out his Taser, put it in “stun” mode, and applied it to Menard’s lower back.
With that, Menard’s other wrist was cuffed and he was led out of the bar, but he was no more cooperative, repeatedly kicking at the officers with his cowboy boots. He kept doing so when they tried to put him in leg restraints, so one of the officers — the same one who had used the Taser — dosed Menard pepper spray. Menard continued to struggle, prompting a second spritz.
Menard was taken to the Fort Worth City Jail on charges of resisting arrest, theft of service, and public intoxication.
