Police taze 8 year old girl

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When i was about 8 - this girl that lived up the road had a knife and was threatening to off herself.
So i sat and talked to her - she hated her mom because she didnt let her do [this or that] and then she decided she should kill her mom.... so i reasoned with her.

Her mom and she both lived.

I told my mom - and well - that didnt go too well. I wasnt allowed to hang out with her after that. But i did - only because she needed a friend. I just didnt go to her house. :holy: She met me in the woods after that.
I never told her my mom said that - but i didnt find her crazed when she had the knife - just looking for attention.

Kids this age - want attention. Usually.
It's odd how parents will take away the only friend a little lost girl like that has, isn't it?
I knew a girl that suffered abuse at home. She confided in me and I being her only friend never told a soul. Then something happened with her family, which I never learned though I did know my little friend was moved to the custody of her aunt who lived just up the street from us, and suddenly she was home schooled and not allowed to meet with me anymore.

It's not the kids fault that something at home makes them miserable.

Certainly the little girl in this OP article was looking for attention. Cutting herself would send the message she was serious about killing herself with the same knife.
It's horrible to think that was the one way a little 8 year old girl thought to get the attention of people who could help her.

Rather than just talking about this, we should all surround her in our prayers. :groupray: So that she doesn't feel as alone as she appears now. :prayer:
 
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WE are in such a rush to make kids grow up. To much TV. No one should have such problems at 8. or 21 for that matter. We need an environment were people can take the right amount of time to mature.
True. And what doesn't help is the programming that inundates children with the idea that they need to grow up too fast.
Miley Cyrus makes a living singing promoting illicit sex and illegal drugs while dressing like a street walker.
Television shows, movies, music, minor culture being taught at school that discipline at home can be constituted as abusive and should be reported. Kids are being told they run their parents, not the other way around.
When kids don't have structure they tend to fall apart. As this poor little girl demonstrates.

Suicide at 8? :( When I was 8 I was dreaming of what I wanted to be when I grew up. Reading books on the profession, oceanographer, and working hard in school to achieve the dream.
Suicide wasn't in my vocabulary. Now this little girl will in all likelihood have a scar where she stabbed herself in the leg to remind her that she wanted to stab herself to death when she was eight. No future, no plans, no 9th birthday. A life so bad that she thought dying was better?

She's an example of all that failed her little life. From home to society itself.
It's a tragedy and it's not the only one. It's just the one that makes headlines today.
 
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Sounds like the federal gov't right now. The IRS, Dept of homeland security and Forrest Services are all weaponized and mobilized against the American population, thanks to the CEO who's playing the shut down like a violin.

It's not just the cops using force, it's Smokey the Bear, too.

It's a culture of death thing
 
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Why is everyone assuming that the cop DIDN'T talk to this girl? Of course he talked to her! He tasered her at the point where the risk of her actually harming herself became greater than the chances of her putting the knife down! None of you were there! And yet you make judgements on the actions he took to SAVE her life, and then go a step further and disparage cops in general. Nice. I'm done here.
 
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Why is everyone assuming that the cop DIDN'T talk to this girl?

I don't know.

Maybe experience. Cops taze first and ask questions if they fell like it some time else. But usually not.
Of course he talked to her! He tasered her at the point where the risk of her actually harming herself became greater than the chances of her putting the knife down!

I'm guessing he said Hi, followed by a reach for his tazer.

None of you were there! And yet you make judgements on the actions he took to SAVE her life, and then go a step further and disparage cops in general. Nice. I'm done here.

Well,

Showing up with body armor, tanks and automatic weapons has that effect on people.
 
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Why is everyone assuming that the cop DIDN'T talk to this girl? Of course he talked to her! He tasered her at the point where the risk of her actually harming herself became greater than the chances of her putting the knife down! None of you were there! And yet you make judgements on the actions he took to SAVE her life, and then go a step further and disparage cops in general. Nice. I'm done here.
Speaking for myself, I'm aware the cop talked to the girl before the tazing. My point is this poor little one didn't have someone who would listen to her before her life came to this. :(
 
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Why is everyone assuming that the cop DIDN'T talk to this girl? Of course he talked to her! He tasered her at the point where the risk of her actually harming herself became greater than the chances of her putting the knife down! None of you were there! And yet you make judgements on the actions he took to SAVE her life, and then go a step further and disparage cops in general. Nice. I'm done here.
It's the cool thing to do?
Btw- I agree.:thumbsup:
 
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Why is everyone assuming that the cop DIDN'T talk to this girl? Of course he talked to her! He tasered her at the point where the risk of her actually harming herself became greater than the chances of her putting the knife down! None of you were there! And yet you make judgements on the actions he took to SAVE her life, and then go a step further and disparage cops in general. Nice. I'm done here.
Were you there? Do you know that this happened? I would guess not.
 
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Were you there? Do you know that this happened? I would guess not.
So let's assume the cop tasered her unnecessarily instead of giving him the benefit of the doubt. Do YOU put your life on the line for the service of your community every day? I would guess not.
 
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We're not talking about the forrest rangers Charlie, we're talking about the police!

We're talking about the police not the army.

You want to act like a occupying force people will consider you one.

Also,

Here in the North country forrest rangers have a dangerous job.

Three times a year are in the wood with people carrying guns.
 
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It's odd how parents will take away the only friend a little lost girl like that has, isn't it?
I knew a girl that suffered abuse at home. She confided in me and I being her only friend never told a soul. Then something happened with her family, which I never learned though I did know my little friend was moved to the custody of her aunt who lived just up the street from us, and suddenly she was home schooled and not allowed to meet with me anymore.

It's not the kids fault that something at home makes them miserable.

Certainly the little girl in this OP article was looking for attention. Cutting herself would send the message she was serious about killing herself with the same knife.
It's horrible to think that was the one way a little 8 year old girl thought to get the attention of people who could help her.

Rather than just talking about this, we should all surround her in our prayers. :groupray: So that she doesn't feel as alone as she appears now. :prayer:
The world is in my prayers.
Its one messed up place.

Well, the little girl did not have cuts on her. It was reported to police that she did - but they saw that was not so.

Whatever this girl is dealing with - i do hope the Lord help her.
 
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