Cop Tasers and Arrests 10-year-old Girl

[Raid3r]

Actually, i think its technology related because..looking into the circumstance these cops..HAVE to be cyborgs. Right? No humanity left in em.

 

[hypocrisyforever]

I'm all for giving criminals the what for. However, if you can't restrain a 10yo girl without a tazer, you DEFINITELY should NOT be a cop. Period. I mean....sorry, go sell hamburgers and leave the policing to real men and women.

 

[ssalim]

The blame lies squarely upon the mother's shoulder for spoiling her kid(s). Dont want to take shower and scream/kick/cry? Wow that's ONE SPOILED BRAT!

However, she does not deserve a taser unless she threatens the cop's life, which apparently the cop thought his penis was all that's left in his life. No offense.

 

[Guest]

With the U.S. society today, kids know their rights and parents cannot do anything about it. Try to talk sense to kid think the world is not fair? Go ahead.

I did feel sorry for the mother before she called the cop. Kid does not want to take a shower...

 

[pbrigido]

It is just a taser! It is a non-lethal method of controlling an individual. The girl wasn't shot or beaten. When your parents or an officer of the law tell you to do something, you do it. The law doesn't make exception for age.

 

[accolite]

Don't forget that today's 10 year can be some biggens so don't start talking, oh how can a cop taser a 10 year old.

There was a good reason for it. Instead of a slap on the face to snap out of it, she got a jolt to remember that she better listen up.

I've seen this sunday on msnbc or cnn can't remmeber.

 

[Guest]

10 Year old girl doesn't want to take a shower so throws a temper tantrum.
Possible Reasons?

1. Mother won't discipline and expects somebody else to do it(i.e. the police) - Mother should be tasered

2. Possible mental/psych issue? - Mother should seek professional help for child and then be tasered

3. Calling the police was a setup to get a lawsuit - Mother should be tasered

Who calls the police because their daughter doesn't want to take a shower?

 

[tayb]

Um. Where in this article is the mention of the god awful parenting?

 

[djackson_dba]

[citation][nom]JofaMang[/nom]Good thing cops get to keep collecting their public funded salaries when being investigated for these sort of things. I would HATE to think they might actually have to deal with any sort of hardship after doing something like this. Instead they get a paid vacation until an internal review clears him of wrong doing and puts him back on the job. So awesome. When I grow up I want to be a cop so I can live consequence free![/citation]

Innocent until proven guilty. You may have heard this somewhere before...

 

[madogre]

The whole problem with subdueing the child is you cant use force like you would with an adult with out causing more harm then the taser did.

I agree the cop did the right thing, as a dad of 2 I would have no problem with this, but I would naver have called the cops in the first place, my belt > taser any day.

 

[djackson_dba]

[citation][nom]pbrigido[/nom]It is just a taser! It is a non-lethal method of controlling an individual. The girl wasn't shot or beaten. When your parents or an officer of the law tell you to do something, you do it. The law doesn't make exception for age.[/citation]

Non-Lethal does not mean non-dangerous. This is especially true when small children are involved.

 

[Guest]

Well considering her father was a ninny, the cop should've just backhanded the bratty kid. But after geting the Taz, I bet she isn't throwing anymore temper-tantrums ..!

She obvisouly doesn't have a father figure around..

 

[reddragon72]

first why was the kid upset over a shower? second why did the mother respond with this with cops? third why did the cop taz the girl?

1. youth today bitch about everything and throw fits and pretty much never mind at all, there is no respect and it is the parents fault. Take control of your kids and if someone says something to you about not being a good parent then had your kid over to them and see how they like it. There are to many people today that are other peoples business, you cannot properly discipline your kids cause someone will come and take them away only to put them in some other home that allows them to run around and be asses! this needs to stop, stay out of my life and keep your mouth shut how I raise my kids. America is becoming more and more like some non abled country, in other words everyone here thinks everyone else is stupid na cannot do anything right.

2. if the mother had taken the action into her own hands then the cops probably would have been called on her, so she figured(by fault of society making people scared to do anything) she would call them first.

3. look if I was a cop and I got called to a house because the parents couldn't control there own kids I'd taz the kids ass to. Why, cause IT"S NOT MY PLACE AND NOT MY KIDS!! I'm simply not going to waste my time trying to "talk" to a kids that wont respond to the parents, screw that. They don't want to listen then either spank them with a board or lock them in there room. The goverment has given kids to much leadway today by "protecting" the crap out of them from there own parents who is supposed to keep them in line, then when the kids are in trouble in school or somewhere out on town it is the parents fault. If my kids get out of line I'll had them the phone and have them call the cops on me before I beat them so they can tell them clearly why I beat them.

anyone have an issue with this needs to go back into there house and stay out of my business. your life and your kids lives our yours, so act that way and don't be scared of the frign cops or government. America it is time to take back our rights, and our lives!!!

 

[rhapes]

Why didn't he just punch her out? This seems like a perfectly good waste of a taser charge to me. Can you imagine how many hits this would get on You Tube?

 

[tester24]

[citation][nom]bill gates is your daddy[/nom]Are you going to stand by those words if its your child being tasered?[/citation]

Hell yes I would, I'de even taz them myself. It's not like back in the old days where you could smack your kid on the butt for misbehaving (There is a difference between an attention getter than some abusive parent who beats their child) hell you get child services on your ass faster than anything.

If the mom can't control the child or the child is uncooperative then I they have more problems on their hands.

However I think the cop did the right thing anyways, if it were an older person like a teenager I bet half the people who are bitching about it would have nothing to say.

 

[XZaapryca]

This is days old and not even close to being tech related. That being said, my daughter is around the same age and I couldn't imagine not being able to subdue her without the use of a Taser. Was the cop a little wuss? Sheesh...

 

[JofaMang]

[citation][nom]djackson_dba[/nom]Innocent until proven guilty. You may have heard this somewhere before...[/citation]

Then send him home without pay until the investigation is done. No private sector job has the same protections. If someone reports me stealing from my employer, I go home without a job. Yet if a cop decides that using a taser on a 10year old child (in recent years found NOT to be such a non-lethal weapon) he gets a paid vacation. Even if he does face penalization in the form of job loss, he doesn't have to pay back the money he was paid while waiting for judgement. That is OUR money. They work for us.

 

[sunflier]

Don't taze me bro!

 

[soul555top]

Kind of a strange example here...but here goes.

I used to work at a Veterinary Hospital as an assistant and we for the most part gave shots to dogs and cats. Dogs were generally easy to deal with because they were larger and I could "body" them, meaning I almost gave them a bear hug while the Doc applied the shots (vitamins, meds etc). They usually did not like this, but I was able to absorb most of the impact and it was overall pretty easy. Cats on the other hand, wow. I had to bust out the pads, protectors, goggles, and I STILL got scratched bad, that is, if I could even manage to restrain the cat. I am very animal friendly so I did all this with trying to keep the animals as calm as possible as I know they are scared and not in a comfortable environment. But man oh man, when those cats got the Vitamin B shot, it was just like a little tornado of fur and claw and tooth, while hissing, yeah it was not a very enjoyable experience.

How I am relating it to this story? Well the whole story is silly to begin with, kid wont take shower so mom calls cops? Seriously? Anyways, assuming the cop is a grown man, there really is no gentle way to restrain a kicking/screaming young girl. If he didnt taze (is that even a word?) then would he put her in a headlock? Bear hug so she couldnt move at all? I don't really see any "good" way to do this. Tazing, of course, sounds terrible, but isn't this standard practice now to "safely" subdue someone? I guess the cops life was never in danger, but I don't really see a good way for him to handle this...aside from maybe laughing at the call and continuing to eat his donuts.

 

[kingnoobe]

Nope for once I think this cop was wrong. Unless they kid is huge there is no reason to taser a 10 year old girl. If he's not man enough to simply pick her up push her against a wall, and throw the cuffs on he has no reason to be a police officer. I hope he gets fired. I don't want anything else done to him, but he shouldn't be a cop period.
Also it sounds to me like he simply lost control of anger when he got kicked in the groin and he let his emotions get the best of him, another reason he shouldn't be a cop.

Don't get me wrong the cop isn't the only one that's at fault. As he shouldn't have been needed in the first place. You can't blame kids on the way they act when obviously their parents have no idea what discipline is.