Common sense tells me that cops don't need a Taser or a shotgun to subdue a 95-year-old man.
The old man, described by a family member as "wobbly" on his feet, had refused medical attention. The paramedics were called. They brought in the Park Forest police.
First they tased him, but that didn't work. So they fired a shotgun, hitting him in the stomach with a bean-bag round. Wrana was struck with such force that he bled to death internally, according to the Cook County medical examiner.
"The Japanese military couldn't get him at the age he was touchable, in a uniform in the war. It took 70 years later for the Park Forest police to do the job,"Wrana's family attorney, Nicholas Grapsas, a former prosecutor, said in an interview with me Thursday.
