Woman tasered by cops after she tried to buy too many iPhones (W/Pics)

By HAYLEY PETERSON

Blood-curdling screams stunned holiday shoppers at a New Hampshire mall this week as police tackled a 44-year-old woman to the ground and tased her outside an Apple store. Her offense? She tried to buy too many iPhones and wouldn't leave the Apple store when asked, according to police. Xiaojie Li of Newton, Massachusetts, said she bought two iPhones at the Apple store in Nashua's Pheasant Lane Mall last week. Store policy wouldn't allow her to buy more than two phones.

The store restricts iPhone purchases to two per person because of concerns over resellers buying the smartphone and selling them at marked-up prices overseas. Li, who doesn't speak English, decided to return to the store on Tuesday to see if she could buy additional phones, despite the policy. She said she planned to give the phones as gifts to her family in China.

When the store refused to sell her more phones, police asked her to leave and she refused, police said. Bruce Hansen of the Nashua Police Department said Li was told repeatedly that she was under arrest but that she refused to submit.

That's when two policemen tased her, eliciting blood-curdling screams from Li that were captured by an amateur video recording. The recording shows Li lying face-down on the floor of the mall, kicking and struggling, while two officers held her down.

'She wasn't mistreated in any way,' Hansen told local news station wcvb.com. 'If she had left the store when she was told to leave the store, it would have been done at that.' Police found $16,000 cash on Li. Li's fiance, John Hugo, says he is 'outraged' by the incident. He plans to fight the misdemeanor charges against Li and is considering filing a complaint against the police, he said during an interview with wcvb.com.

'Is this proper procedure? Beating her up?' Hugo asked with Li by his side. He held up her wrist to show the red marks that remained there from the incident. 'Is that proper procedure, really? Beating up a helpless woman? I beg to differ.'

Li sat quietly next to Hugo, never saying a word and only looking up from the ground once. Hugo claims that Li resisted the arrest because she didn't understand what the policeman were saying. Asked by a reporter whether Li had planned to resell the phones, Hugo said: 'Not to my knowledge, sir, no. This was a present for her sister.'

Even if she was planning to resell the phones, 'Does it rise to the level of her getting a beating by police?' he added.