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Newton Woman Tasered

Friday, January 18, 2013

Newton Woman Tasered Outside Apple Store Will Fight Charges

Xiaojie Li says she was treated 'inhumanely.' Police say she was trespassing. Court date is set for March.

A woman arrested in a New Hampshire shopping mall in December, after being Tasered by Nashua Police, has pleaded not-guilty to two charges, and will appear in court in March, according to the Nashua Telegraph. Xiaojie Li, 44, of Newton, was charged with one count of misdemeanor resisting arrest or detention and one count of misdemeanor criminal trespass on Dec. 11. Her attorney, David Ruoff of Manchester, told the Nashua Telegraph that she plans to fight the charges. Li has released a statement in her native Mandarin to Chinese media covering the case, translated to English through a person acting on Li's behalf, according to her uncle, David Chen of Thousand Crane II restaurant in Nashua. The statement reads, in part: “I am outraged by …

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