9-year-old who skipped school is Tasered
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9-year-old who skipped school is Tasered
| Tue, 03-13-2012 - 1:53pm |
An Ohio police officer says he used a stun gun twice on a 9-year-old who skipped school because the child refused to cooperate with his commands. He says the child's mother warned the boy, who weighs between 200 and 250 pounds, to obey the officer or he'd be shocked.
I don't know where to start on this one! Tasering a 9 year old is horrendous... even
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Ohio has a big problem with kids skipping school.
I may be missing something, but since when is non-attendance at school a police matter? And what would tasering do to get the kid to go to school? If tasering doesn't work, what is plan B?
Ah... my bad. I stand corrected. :smileywink:
"O’Neil wrote that after repeated warnings, he pulled Jared from the couch, but he “dropped to the floor and became dead weight ... flailing around,” and the boy lay on his hands to prevent being handcuffed."
I was thinking more along the lines of calling for back-up first. Tasering seems a bit of an extreme reaction; and chances are, that same mom would be raising on heck of a stink if the tasering had inflicted damage to her son.
The height doesen't suprise me, since my almost 8 yo dd is pushing 5' already, but she doesen't top 80 lbs. Getting close though. She's an Amazon. But I was weighing Kindergarteners that already weighed 105. It was sad really. Two of them were real problem kids. One of them I could see being impossible to handle in another year or two. I don't know about tasering, but the officer was left with what? Tackle or taser? Seemed the mom was the one who called for the taser.