Police taser 10 year old.

[Kiutu]

It could kill her. They are not physically able to really take a shot from a tazer.

 

[beddo]

I think this kind of situation is more acceptable in America, where casual violence is acceptable then England.


I'd say that any moron that's dumb enough to taser a ten year old, regardless of if they saught authority from the girl's mothers, the police commissioner or God himself needs to be locked up. Allowing somebody with such a startling lack of problem solving skills shouldn't be trusted with a spoon, let alone an assortment of weapons.

As for the mother allowing her kid to be tasered, I'd argue that somebody who teaches a child at an early age that violence is a solution to your problems (especially when somebody isn't doing what you ask them) isn't an ideal candidate for motherhood. The child was throwing a fit, not pointing a gun to somebody's face. Nobody was in danger, she wasn't damaging any property, she didn't deserve a taser.

I would disagree, and thank you for stereotyping the USA! Did you do that over tea and crumpets? Assault on A Police Officer is Assault on A Police Officer. Also, if you disagree with me, take a taser, and then get kicked in the balls. I bet you will tase that person.

Assaulting a Police Officer should not be any different to assaulting anyone else. Police are given the responsibility to react to a situation rationally. There was no public interest in him going into the house on this occasion.

The child was clearly not as culpable for her actions as an adult and if an officer is unable to detain an unarmed child they should not be in the police force. HE should have taken some perspective on the case, firstly by explaining to the woman that it was a domestic matter and that she must keep the noise down.

Secondly he should have realised that even if the child lashed out he did not need to use the taser to take her into custody. Thirdly, he was in private property, not out on the street.

The police are there by consent of the people. They are no our masters, they are our servants. They have a duty to serve and protect, not assault and oppress.

Also, if someone hit me and I had a taser, I would't use it unless I was defending from future attacks, I would call the police. Irrespective, I am a citizen, not a police officer and don't have to abide by the same responsibility as them.

I hope this police officer is fired and prosecuted for assault with a deadly weapon.

 

[JaredXE]

She wasn't tasered as punishment, but to get her to settle the fuck down. I say bravo. Yeah, the mom is probably not a good parent and can't keep her kid under control, but at the age of ten you KNOW not to attack a police officer. She did, and got zapped.

It's the same thing as the old grandma that got tased, she was a ***** to the officer, unruly and physically disruptive, he warned her and she got to feel electricity running through her wrinkley frame.


Good on the officer.


BTW, I am the kind of parent that would ask the school to smack my kid if they were disruptive in class and would sign any form that allowed them to do that without any twinge of regret. So your arguments that "Oh, but she was TEN!" and "What kind of monster?" fall on deaf ears. I believe that children need discipline and to not be allowed to get away with shit. They learn that at a young enough age, then they don't need a police officer tasering them at 10.

 

[hittite]

So glad I saw this post before some of the more... dickheaded responses. It just about sums it up. Only thing I have to add is if this persons child was out of control and they couldn't handle it they've failed royally as a parent. You don't let your kids call the shots. Second, any policeman who can't handle a 10 year old girl without using a taser is absolutely fucking pathetic and shouldn't be a cop in the first place. How the fuck are they expected to tackle real criminals?!

Okay people, heres the deal. There is absolutely no good way to fight a 10 year old girl. Besides the whole ridiculous amounts of manic energy, they're just old enough to know how to fight dirty, and young and cute enough to make it where any decent man would have severe trouble punching her in the face. The cop had only 2 other choices: nightstick, which would have lost him his badge by morning, or handcuffs, which are most definitely NOT designed with little girls in mind. This whole thing was just messed up from the beginning.

 

[Kiutu]

It could kill her. They are not physically able to really take a shot from a tazer.

Yes, they are. Conspiracy theorists say otherwise, but they are Conspiracy theorists.

How about a decade ago a girl was murdered by a single tazer shot. She was about 10 I believe.

 

[Veacane]

They shower in Arkansas?

 

[ugeine]

Casual Violence? No. A cop doing his job? Yes.

Getting children to shower is considered part of a police officer's role in America?

What a country...

 

[Coldsnap]

I have a few friends in the medical field who deal with children on a regular basis, and they frequently tell me how children throwing tantrums can be incredibly difficult to restrain under any circumstance. You're an adult. Sure, you CAN use your superior strength to restrain the child, but as it says in the article linked you could accidently injure the child if you use strength.

Zapping the child proved the favorable measure as it brought the little brat under control and you didn't have to accidently break a rib or an arm in the process.

People who keep saying, hurr hurr hurr couldn't restrain a 10-year old should be forced to read this. One zap that quickly restrained the child with very little chance of side effects vs a good chance of causing more serious injury.

 

[McNinja]

The parent should have tasered her, not the cops.

 

[JaredXE]

The police are there by consent of the people. They are no our masters, they are our servants. They have a duty to serve and protect, not assault and oppress.

I hope this police officer is fired and prosecuted for assault with a deadly weapon.

Funnily enough, he WAS serving the people by do the task requested of him by the mother.

And a taser is as much a deadly weapon as wiffle-ball bat to the head. Sure you COULD kill someone, but it'd take some effort on your part and A LOT of bad luck on theirs. Tasers are used due to their NONLETHAL status, you know, so officers don't have to beat you with a nightstick or pistol-whip you into submission.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Unnaceptable I know grown men who have doubled over from a taser some things you just do not do to a developing child that is one of them, the cop should be tried for stupidity and the mother made to take a parenting course. It's your job to keep your children in line, and its the police job to uphold and obey the laws if a mother gave a cop permission to rape a child its not legal neither is bloody assault.

I dont care what a kid is doing if it's short of nearly killing someone its inexcusable, if I ever saw someone tasing, beating or the like you would be a fucking puddle of blood.

 

[ugeine]

Casual Violence? No. A cop doing his job? Yes.

Getting children to shower is considered part of a police officer's role in America?

What a country...

No, but disturbing the peace is. She was disturbing the peace.

How, exactly? Was the entire street not able to sleep because this child throwing a massive tantrum?

If you'd bothered to read the article, it was the child's own mother who called the police, not a neighbour who was pissed off by the noise.

 

[lvl9000_woot]

I have to say, I lol'd.
I can maybe see how this was justified, especially after the crotch shot. Plus, if she gets out of hand again, her mom can pick up the phone and say, "Okay, I'm calling the cops again!"

...or she could invest in getting a tazer of her own...

 

[The Sorrow]

I'd say the cop did the right thing.
The family jewels are sacred

 

[sam13lfc]

The mother is clearly at fault here.