Every time I see a story like this, a little bit more of my respect towards the Average US Police Officer fades away. A story like what, you may ask? To quote news.com.au:
A US police officer used a Taser stun gun to subdue a "combative" 10-year-old girl in her own home because she refused to take a shower.
In a report on the incident the officer, Dustin Bradshaw, said he was called to the home, in Ozark, Arkansas, on November 11 because of a domestic disturbance.
Ok, so the cop gets called over to the house to have a check up on what's going on. To make sure nobody gets hurt. That is his job, after all, right? The story continues:
when he arrived the girl was curled up on the floor, screaming, and resisting as her mother tried to get her in the shower before bed.
"Her mother told me to take her if I needed to," the officer wrote.
But he said the girl was violent and combative when he tried to take her into custody, so he delivered "a very brief" touch of a stun gun to her back, Britain's Daily Telegraph reports.
This part of the story is where I began to wonder just what was going on in Mr Bradshaw's head that night. Why would A Police Department let through a man who is so feeble, he can't restrain a 10 year old girl? They wouldn't. It only gets worse when he tries to justify himself, saying he only gave her a "very brief" shock. The way I see it, the officer was completely out of bounds, and might need to put the tazer to his own head (for a very brief moment, of course) and get a shock of reality.
Read the full story at news.com.au.
The next step (not as uncommon as one might think):
- 17 year old boy killed from Police Issue Tazer
Theres so many stories out there just like this. It's getting a little old.
Theres my 95 cents, what about you?
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