HAYFIELD, Minn. – The Dodge County sheriff, Scott Rose, took a stun-gun taser shot at a fund-raiser. Two deputies held him against a wall and a sheriff’s office dispatcher fired the taser and held the trigger five seconds. Rose recoiled in pain and gritted as the disabling electrical current ripped through his body. When it was over, Rose, fully recovered, said he couldn’t be more pleased. This happened at an event to raise money for the dispatcher, Dawn Frieberg, an 18-year veteran at the sheriff’s office who is undergoing costly cancer treatment. A deputy had come up with the tasering idea spontaneously to accelerate the fund-raising. With 35 minutes left in the fundraiser. Rose agreed: “OK. If you can raise $5,000 in 35 minutes, I’ll take the five seconds.” It was Frieberg, clad in pink, who pulled the trigger. Rose, wearing a “We Love D” t-shirt, took the shot in the chest from 10 feet. In those 35 minutes leading up to the taser shot, well-wishers pitched in $7,000. The total take for the event: $17,000.
Why is this man not smiling. It’s Sheriff Scott Rose, and he’s being tasered at the Village Pub.