Cop uses taser gun on 10 year old...

gnomemom

Has this been discussed yet? https://www.salon.com/2012/10/31/cop_used_taser_gun_on_10_year_old_boy/

 

A New Mexico police officer used a Taser gun on a 10-year-old boy to demonstrate what cops do to people who don?t follow orders, according to a complaint heard by a Sante Fe court Tuesday.

Officer Chris Webb was attending ?career day? at Tularosa New Mexico Intermediate School when he sent 50,000 volts of electricity into the child?s chest on the playground. The young boy blacked out and has, according to his legal representative, been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder ever since; the officer faces a civil suit.

According to the complaint, Webb shot his Taser at the child (referred to only as ?R.D.?) after he said he did not want to join fellow classmates in cleaning the officer?s patrol car. Courthouse News reported:

?Defendant Webb responded by pointing his Taser at R.D. and saying, ?Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.??

Webb then shot ?two barbs into R.D.?s chest,? the complaint states. ?Both barbs penetrated the boy?s shirt, causing the device to deliver 50,000 volts into the boy?s body. ?Defendant Webb pulled the barbs out [of] the boy?s chest, causing scarring where the barbs had entered the boy?s skin that look like cigarette burns on the boy?s chest.

?The boy, who weighed less than 100 lbs., blacked out.?Instead of calling emergency medical personnel, Officer Webb pulled out the barbs and took the boy to the school principal?s office,? the complaint states.

Following the May 4 incident, Webb, who claims he accidentally discharged the Taser, was given only a three-day suspension.

RondackHiker

Scout2005:

WTAF?I mean...I'd have to be forcibly restrained if that were my child.nbsp;And damn right he's facing a civil suit. He should have been fired.nbsp;

I don't think of myself as a violent person, but I feel like if I saw this, even if I didn't know the kid, my complete and overwhelming instinct would be to tackle him.

Mrs.adambabycakes

What a good way to get children to hate police.

nanabanana06

Dude, that is effed. I would be suing the ever living hell out of people.

Smootchy

Jeezus!! From title I thought, "career day" whatever he asked for volunteer and it happened to be a kid... Whatever my brothers would've and did do stuff like that. But are you kidding!? That cops a dooosche bag!

FrickandFrack

Scout2005:

WTAF?

I mean...I'd have to be forcibly restrained if that were my child. 

And damn right he's facing a civil suit. He should have been fired. 

All of this.

FezzesAreCool

3 day suspension?

ARE YOU F'UCKING KIDDING ME?

 

tarebear9891

He deserves to be tased repeatedly in his gonads. Seriously, what the f'uck.

myself1nme

chapski:

Jeezus!! From title I thought, "career day" whatever he asked for volunteer and it happened to be a kid... Whatever my brothers would've and did do stuff like that. But are you kidding!? That cops a dooosche bag!

I was thinking the same thing.  WTAF?!?!!

sadsadie

This cop should be fired,sued, imprisoned and pissed on. WTF? As a teacher, I can't imagine this. How is he not being held to the same standard as any other authority figure whose job is to protect people?  

I also think we need much more vigorous psychological testing for potential police recruits. A lot of these people are psychopathic bullies and should be weeded out, not given guns and tasers. Fuuuuuck. 

FordFalcor

kfrix13:

Scout2005:

WTAF?

I mean...I'd have to be forcibly restrained if that were my child. 

And damn right he's facing a civil suit. He should have been fired. 

All of this.

Yep. That poor child.

Kitiara5512

Oh JFC what a flucking moron. Arrest the flucker for assaulting a child.