U.S. police taser 10-year-old
Little girls and boys are being TASERed now – tortured in foster homes and institutions as usual – and we’re told they’re not hurt? The precedent’s set now, so get ready for more domestic torture. It’s what Jack Bauer does on 24. It’s what the good guys do now. That’ll teach you to fear and obey authority, child.
Flashback: US Cop Tasers and Arrests a 10-Year Old Girl For Throwing a Fit | RCMP defend Taser use on girl, 16 | Ban stun gun use on young people, Ontario child advocate urges | RCMP Investigates, Clears Self of Wrongdoing in Case of TASERed Inuvik Girl | Probe into tasering of teenaged girl reopened | Mounties pinned me down in cell and tasered me, Manitoba girl says
Associated Press
December 3, 2009
Colorado sheriff’s deputies shock boy during foster-home arrest
Colorado sheriff’s deputies shocked an “out of control” 10-year-old child with a Taser and arrested him.
Pueblo Sheriff’s Captain Jeff Teschner said Wednesday that the boy was not hurt when deputies took action Monday after arriving at his foster home, where he was reportedly destroying property. Teschner says deputies were justified in their use of force. The deputies say the youth threatened them with a pipe and a stick, and threw a piece of wood at them.
The boy was arrested on suspicion of menacing with a deadly weapon.
Last month, a police officer in a small Arkansas town was fired after using a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl, not for using the Taser but for violating department policy by failing to use the camera attached to it.
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