What Could Justify Using a Taser on an 8-Year-Old Girl?
https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-...hat-could-justify-using-taser-8-year-old-girl
Personally...I'm speaking as someone who has been married to a cop for almost 25 years, and has raised five consecutive eight year olds. It can be difficult to take something from a TWO year old that they don't want to let go of, so just picture yourself trying to wrest a sharp knife away from an 8yr old who is not reasonable or stable to begin with, who isn't worried about hurting you or their self, and that's if you could even get your hands on the knife BEFORE they hurt their self or you! How close do you think the cop could get before she could stab herself? How effective or 'courageous' could the cop have been with a knife in his throat? Because it wouldn't have taken skill to put it there, just recklessness and bad luck. I'm so glad that people who have never had to put their lives on the line day in and day out for an ungrateful public, always know what SHOULD have been done.
So you think the cop just mozied over to a calm girl holding a knife to her chest and stuck her with a tazer?They didnt say the child was acting rashly. She was standing there with a knife - but it doesnt say she was screaming and crying and out of control.
WarriorAngel said:Tazers can kill. Esp kids.
It was the worst way possibly to handle this.
Luther073082 said:Anyways I wouldn't be too critical of them. Sure she was 8, but she doesn't have to be big and strong to kill herself.
On top of that I doubt they have special police training for dealing with 8 year old kids threatening to kill themselves.
And in that situation a person holding a knife to their chest and refusing to put it down, I can see where the book calls for tazing them.
Coming after the knife physically would only likely cause them to make good on their threats.
She's in pain, but darn it she's alive. You can't guarantee me that if an officer physically tries to take the knife from her hands that she's alive today.
He probably thought it would be the fastest way to disarm her. So, in all this, did anyone wonder why an EIGHT year old is suicidal and are people investigating her home environment...or is everyone just outraged over the cop?
We actually agree on something for once.
The sky must be falling.
WarriorAngel said:No, not because we agree - but because i agreed with Hetta. :o
Tazed is better than shot.
If cops didn't have the capacity to electrocute people they'd have as many reports of shooting them instead.
I agree, the issue isn't the cop tazed this girl. The issue is how is an 8 year old stabbing herself and threatening suicide with a knife?
I'd hope the authorities would check out her home environment after giving her a full physical to see if she's been raped, and to see what is going so very wrong with this little girls life.
End. Of. The. World.
I hope they ordered a psych consult and a social work consult while she was hospitalized.
Absolute truth, they also routinely lie as well.The police are out of control, militarized, feel entitled, arbitrary violent and, at the moment, don't actually serve the people they are supposedly protecting.
I blame this all on the Federal Governments decision to begin torturing it's prisoner.
Social morality flows downhill. If you can torture your prisoners, you can taze a kid.
After all it's not like they are job providers or anything important.
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.The police are out of control, militarized, feel entitled, arbitrary violent and, at the moment, don't actually serve the people they are supposedly protecting.