Ravenwood - 09/13/05 06:30 AM
Reader Robert Garrard points out that the latest victim of taser abuse is a 12 year old girl. (Full article quoted below)
An officer shot a 12-year-old schoolgirl with a Taser gun and arrested her after she became disruptive at school, Cincinnati police said.Tasers were designed to be a substitute for lethal force, and many people have died after being shot with them. While this little girl hardly seems like an perfect angel, I cannot think of any situation where facing an unarmed 12 year old would warrant the use of lethal force.
The incident happened at Burton Elementary School in Avondale Wednesday.Police said the principal called them when the girl refused to go to class. When officers arrived, they had trouble bringing the girl, who is 5 feet 5 inches tall and 120 pounds, under control. Officers said they warned the girl several times that they would use the Taser on her if she did not calm down.
She was charged for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Category: Fall of Western Civilization
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My brother kicks my ass every day of the week and he is barely over 13. I'd hate to be the two policemen who had to taze a 12 year old because they have pretty much admitted that their asses were being handed to them in the fight.
And going from experience of the great Wal Mart shoplifter fight of 04 I'd rather deal with 10 large men than 5 bitchy women.
Posted by: Rhett at September 13, 2005 9:52 AMI've seen some huge 12 year olds, but this particular 12 year old is the size of a petite adult woman - and unless she's got a black belt, I'd certainly not want to be the police officers who couldn't handle her...
Posted by: markm at September 13, 2005 12:02 PMWhats wrong with a little old fashion disapline instead of listening to the psyco babble nit wits
Posted by: screaming eagle at September 13, 2005 4:20 PMWhat is this, 12 year old victims week?
Seriously, I wonder how much a fear of 'abuse' lawsuits comes into play with the increased use of tasers. Tasers are at some point in a confrontation approved and immediately effective, where as trying to subdue a tazmanian devil kid affords dozens of opportunites per minute for a lawyer to claim abuse.
I'm not saying it should be used more often, but phony abuse lawsuits are what drives police to use technical rather than physical means to stop flailing arrestees.
I have more problems with the way cops are trained to scream "stop resisting" automatically upon arresting someone. Doesn't that get old? It does on TV cop shows.
I'm with mikem--the problem is not with the tasers, or the cops, or the girl resisting arrest--the problem is with the lawyers.
I'm for putting corporal punishment back in school, imo it would solve more problems than it would create.
That way, if a 12-yr-old's arm gets broken while s/he's resisting arrest, it's the kid's own fault for resisting in the first place.
Posted by: Lornkanaga at September 13, 2005 7:35 PMOkay how about this? Next time a 12 year old school girl gets uppity, the cops go out and taser a lawyer.
I can live with that.
Posted by: Ravenwood at September 13, 2005 7:51 PMThen we are agreed. Taser the lawyers. It might not solve anything in the end (too many of 'em), but I'll feel better.
Posted by: mikem at September 13, 2005 9:21 PM"Then we are agreed. Taser the lawyers. It might not solve anything in the end (too many of 'em), but I'll feel better."
If you taser 'em in the right spot(s) at least it'll curb their breeding instincts...
Posted by: Jay G at September 14, 2005 12:10 AM"Taser the lawyers. It might not solve anything in the end"
Maybe if I took a look at that current-limiting circuit...
Posted by: markm at September 15, 2005 2:47 PMWhen kids get out of hand set phasers on stun when lawyers come walking in with lawsuits against strum ruger set phasers on disitigrate
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