NASHUA, N.H. (KTLA) — A woman was tasered after trying to buy one too many iPhones at an Apple store at a mall in New Hampshire.
Xiaojie Li, 44, a mother of two from Newton, Mass., spoke to reporters with her 12-year-old daughter translating from Chinese.
“So my mom says she don’t know why they called police becasue she doesn’t understand what they are talking about,” the girl said.
Video posted on YouTube doesn’t show how the incident at the Pheasant Lane Mall started.
It shows Xiaojie already on the floor, with two police officers on top of her. You can hear the electric crackle of the taser gun and Xiaojie screams.
Xiaojie says that, last Friday, she bought two iPhones and was told that was the limit.
When she took video of others she claimed were buying more than two phones, the store manager asked her to leave.
She then ordered two more iPhones online and went back to the store. Police say the store had issued a stay-away order.
“So then the police took my mom’s phone and tried to take my mom’s bag,” her daughter said. “My mom tried to ask them why, and they just throw her on the ground.”
After being tasered and handcuffed, Xiaojie was charged with trespassing and resisting arrest. She is due in court in January.
“So my mom is really upset about what they did and so it’s a free country and she just took a picture of what she think they did wrong,” her daughter said.
Apple previously had a purchase limit of two phones per customer, but it was lifted earlier this month.
39 Comments to “Woman Tasered for Buying Too Many iPhones?”
December 14, 2012 at 8:03 AM
Smh…lawsuit!! She did nothing wrong Racial profiling.. a big name store I used to work at did the same thing cause each time a phone was on sale he would buy it.. For his store..but that video should be used in court and get every penny out of apple as well as the police!! If you got Spanish interpreters why not other??
December 14, 2012 at 8:40 AM
This is a very good example of police brutality. Xiaojie only questioned a miscommunication in a sales event; she did not intentionally defy a clearly understandable enforcement of law which would be expected to be known by anyone as a rule among common societal behaviors.
Also, it is demeaning to the commercial relations between the United States and China. This can create cause for objections to trade between nations.
December 14, 2012 at 1:29 PM
"Xiaojie only questioned a miscommunication in a sales event; she did not intentionally defy a clearly understandable enforcement of law which would be expected to be known by anyone as a rule among common societal behaviors. " You say this like you were there.
December 14, 2012 at 1:44 PM
No that's a really good example of why you should speak english!
The store had a sty away order – This is usually issued by a Court
If that is true she violated teh law the moment she arrived.
December 14, 2012 at 10:08 PM
apparently speaking is different from spelling. you should be abused and arrested.
December 14, 2012 at 9:11 AM
THATS SAD POOR LADY THEY SHOULD GIVE HER SOME IPHONES FOR FREE.
December 14, 2012 at 9:16 AM
Bitch ass cops, thats why i have no respect for gangsters like them FTC's — Mark Silva of Norwalk, CA.
December 14, 2012 at 9:31 AM
This is one of the more ridiculous news stories I've read recently. They had to use a Taser on someone who might buy too many products from Apple? What, were they afraid that she just might be benefiting the Apple Empire too much?
I don't think very highly of tort law, but I hope she sues Apple, the mall she was at, and the police officers who saw it necessary to use such grievously excessive force on her. I hope she wins.
December 14, 2012 at 2:53 PM
Despite the headline, and your inability to read, she wasn't tasered for trying to buy too many hones. She was ordered to leave once, came back, despite a stay way order, and then (possibly) refused to leave (that part is unclear right now). You make it sound like she simply asked to buy more phones and thus was tasered. She was told the rule, and apparently understand it well enough to say others were buying more ("All the other kids were doing it," is what we'd hear in school), and got into an argument.
December 15, 2012 at 4:10 AM
Sutter, Sadly your opinion do count in US of A even though you are a underline ignorant just like the COPS and APPLE store manager.
December 14, 2012 at 9:31 AM
So how is this protecting and serving the community. Why do tax payers pay for ignorant cops like that.
December 14, 2012 at 10:09 AM
This is fu#%in stupid, only the big companies would do this, what? Are they afraid theyre gonna run outta phones? Fu#%in idiots
December 14, 2012 at 10:39 AM
if you own apple stock you better sell. If you own stock that restricts sales, especially at Christmas time then you need a new CEO and Jim Whitemarsh is available
December 14, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Are you people out of your damn minds! Wake the hell up! The United States is a damn police state! That woman was damn lucky they shot her with a taiser instead of their 9mm's. That recently happened here in Ohio. Cleveland police shot a man and a woman almost fifty times. Their crime? They ran from the police. Cleveland claimed they had a gun. They didn't. That woman should have gone somewhere else and bought her damn phones. If she's got an ounce of brains in her head she will stay the hell away from that damn store and thus the damn police! She should stay her non english speaking ass away from situations that will bring the damn law down on her ass! Freedom! Hah! There's no such damn thing!
December 14, 2012 at 2:54 PM
A police state? I'm going to guess you haven't traveled much. Ever been to Russia, China, etc., etc. Those are real police states. You don't hae to excuse anything in the U.S. to know that overusing terms like police state is bad. Your solution?
December 15, 2012 at 4:14 AM
Sutter, You've never been out of your mother basement. What do you know about Russia and China ect, ect? You are a dumb**** closet racist. Why don't you come out and play.
December 14, 2012 at 11:41 AM
Kellan, the question you should ask is why was the Pheasant Lane Mall Apple Store racial profiling their customers.
Here are the facts 1) Apple had liftedd the two phone limit for the holidays (I verified this with Apple Customer Relations as well as the NH store manager; 2) Li was told there was a two phone limit and was refused purchase; 3) when she took photos of other customers buying 3+ phones they called the cops on her and she was tased in the process.
This is a pretty clear case of discrimination IMHO.
December 14, 2012 at 12:23 PM
There is more to this story than what is written in the article. The taser was brought out due to the lady resisting and spitting on the officers. She kept it up after they asked her not to. It's the old saying "Do whatever the police tell you to do" ask questions later.
December 14, 2012 at 1:36 PM
Agreed. Like it or not, Apple has the right to withhold merchandise from anyone they want. They also have the right to ban them from their stores. You can say what you want about a need for greater cultural sensitivity or more reserved behavior by law enforcement personnel, but resisting the police is asking for trouble.
December 14, 2012 at 2:28 PM
Not true, "whites only" lunch counter has long beein illegal. witholding merchandise based on race is discrimination.
December 14, 2012 at 2:53 PM
Who said anything about racial discrimination? Based on the information we have, we can't turn this into a race situation. The police were enforcing an existing stay away order, which seems to have been based on a previous incident. Under these circumstances the guarantee of goods "without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin" is moot.
December 15, 2012 at 4:20 AM
Bottomline, COPS BEAT more minorities then white. Come out of your racist closet. Most racist never admit that they are racist even the some KKK thinks they are not racist.
December 15, 2012 at 6:49 AM
Maybe the minorities are more deserving of it due to bad attitude? did you consider that?
December 15, 2012 at 6:47 AM
Charles got a huge chinese chip on his shoulders lol
December 15, 2012 at 6:46 AM
The Bear is absolutely right. There is much more here than is being told.
December 14, 2012 at 2:25 PM
BTW, NY AG's Human Rights Bureau investigated Apple Store's discrimination against Asian customers in the past. Appearantly this abuse has not changed.
December 14, 2012 at 3:02 PM
She did not obey the police and was tased… people made Apple the big cheese they are today. Apple also under-stocks their products to increase demand.
December 14, 2012 at 6:49 PM
Who ever made that comment typical stupied asian is fucking ass wipe. There is more asian going college than other race n thanks to asian spending millioon dollars is saving american . American is heavy debt into trillioon dollars to china. How is big company like apple be stupied as over act to asian lady. .can find way work out with asian lady . Wow stupied is 2 cops teaser asian lady when 2 cops was top of her can not control her. Asian lady need find good lawyer sued apple n 2 cops.
December 14, 2012 at 10:11 PM
you write like you talk. learn english. avoid the problem the whole issue began with.
December 14, 2012 at 10:15 PM
If I were to enter a tmobile store, speaking german and attempted to buy 100 android phones, the yiddish speaking salesperson would give me as many as I had the money for. I see the problem here. She is a sheeple buying an inferior product with uneducated employees who refused to speak to the daughter, whom, from the sound of this report, knows english….
December 15, 2012 at 4:28 AM
Maybe store manager mistook the daughter for one of the underage worker they hired. Cops are scum as always. APPLE like to be dictator like cops. And yet isheeps are there to support CRAPPLE.
December 15, 2012 at 10:41 AM
All i want to know is did she do the fish?
December 15, 2012 at 1:35 PM
Well, it's obvious she can't do the fish, since the two policemen had their knees on her back.
December 16, 2012 at 9:09 PM
If that ever happen to any of my family, ill go and kill them cops!
December 16, 2012 at 9:16 PM
Cops! And dumb stupid managers at apple. This is why people bring guns and shot people like yawl at the mall.
January 28, 2013 at 4:54 PM
sigh for people not knowing anything…there is a huge demographic of chinese people buying phones illegally using stolen SN numbers. that is why she was asked to leave…..
Apple did the right thing to ask her to leave…
December 14, 2012 at 10:04 PM
Who ever the fuck u are, to say “stupid asian lady”, what the fuck are u? I bet u dont even have an education. I agree with the other person that said there are more asian americans in college than they are in any other race
December 15, 2012 at 4:23 AM
you dumbfuck racist. what are you? cop? FUCK YOU