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A Miami-Dade police officer used a Taser to stop an unarmed, 12-year-old girl who was running away from him after she was caught skipping school, police acknowledged Friday night.

The incident happened Nov. 5, just over two weeks after other Miami-Dade officers used a stun gun to restrain a first-grader. In that case, police said the 6-year-old boy was holding a shard of glass and threatening to cut himself. Police Director Bobby Parker defended the decision to shock the boy because he could have seriously hurt himself.

But Parker said Friday that he could not defend the decision to shock the fleeing 12-year-old, who was apparently drunk.

''Under the circumstances, we thought that he should not have used the Taser,'' Parker said referring to the officer. ``It's likely that discipline will be forthcoming.''

Nelson, 38, a 15-year veteran, said he chased her and yelled several times for her to stop. Nelson said he pulled out the Taser and fired when the girl began to run into traffic.

The electric probes hit the girl in the neck and lower back, immobilizing her with 50,000 volts.

Nelson said he fired ''for my safety along with [the girl's] safety.'' He could not be reached for comment.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10170605.htm

:lol :lol

 

[Stuggernaut]

Nelson said he fired ''for my safety along with [the girl's] safety.''

Safety? What was she going to do? :lol

Maybe he thought she was older

 

[Loki]

Yeah, that's quite the excessive use of force, unless he was really concerned for her safety as she ran into traffic, which will have to be determined.


Still, wtf is going on? 6-year-olds threatening to cut themselves ("I'll do it, copper!")...12-year-olds getting drunk and wilin' out? What a sad world.

 

[Socreges]

A suicidal first-grader? A twelve-year-old drunk at school?

See, this is why Bush won Florida.

 

[Gek54]

Those things make your muscles spaz, that is the last thing you want happening if they are holding something sharp to themselves. If I were the parents I would sue for reckless endagerment. How the hell can you not talk down a 6 year old?

 

[automagnus]

Well look on the bright side, she'll never cut agian.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

Miami is an awesome place really... and Miami Beach Police are super!

Spoiler

I'm so glad I got the fuck out of that place T_T *

 

[Loki]

Those things make your muscles spaz, that is the last thing you want happening if they are holding something sharp to themselves. If I were the parents I would sue for reckless endagerment. How the hell can you not talk down a 6 year old?

:lol

Yeah, seriously. I mean, no matter how mental a 6-year old who threatens to cut himself may be, I'd imagine that a quick "hey, want a Reece's Peanut Butter Cup!?", or "hey, let's go buy a copy of Halo 2!" would do the trick better than a taser.

 

[sprsk]

well hey, she *was* running into traffic. better a knocked out little girl than a dead one

 

[Ninja Scooter]

i'd pay good money to see video of this.

 

[Xenon]

Police Use Taser Gun On 6-Year-Old Boy At Elementary School

POSTED: 10:35 pm EST November 11, 2004
UPDATED: 10:46 pm EST November 11, 2004

MIAMI -- A 6-year-old boy was subdued with a Taser gun while wielding a piece of glass and threatening to hurt himself in the principal's office, officials said Thursday.

The boy, who was not identified, was shocked by police with 50,000 volts of electric current on Oct. 20 at Kelsey Pharr Elementary School.

Principal Maria Mason called 911 after the child broke a picture frame in her office and waved the piece of glass, holding a security guard back.

When two Miami-Dade County police officers and a school officer arrived, the boy had already cut himself under his eye and on his hand.

The officers talked to the boy without success. When he cut his own leg, one officer shocked him with a Taser, then another grabbed him to prevent him from falling, police said.

He was treated by Miami-Dade Fire-Rescue and taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he was committed for psychiatric evaluation.

"By using the Taser, we were able to stop the situation, stop him from hurting himself," police spokesman Juan DelCastillo told The Miami Herald. "Sure he could have been tackled and maybe injured, maybe his arm broken or maybe that glass could have cut him in a critical area."

Retired Juvenile Judge Frank Orlando called the incident "ridiculous."

"It just sounds excessive to me to Taser gun a 6-year-old when everyone else around there were adults," said Orlando, who now runs a law clinic on youth law at Nova Southeastern University. "They couldn't subdue a 6-year-old? Must have been a pretty big kid."

Police wouldn't say how big the child was. The case was under review.


=\ wtf is going on in Florida. I saw this story on the news and thought it was pretty fucked up.

 

[fart]

i'm having trouble imagining a situation where a grown man can't restrain a 12 year old girl without a taser.

ok, ok, i can imagine them, but they're all HOT

 

[Jim Bowie]

Cop: Son, set down the glass shard.
Kid: (crying) N-no! I don't want to!
Cop: (obviously flustered) Your bein' a dummy, kid!
Kid: Nu-uh!
Cop: Yuh-huh!
Kid: Nu-uhhhhh!
Cop: Yuh-huhhhh!
Kid: Nu-uhhhhhhh-
(Cop blasts the kid with the taser.)
Cop: NA NA NA NA NAAAA NAA, I SHOT YOU WITH A TAAAASER, NA NA NA NA NAAA NAA!

 

[Meier]

well hey, she *was* running into traffic. better a knocked out little girl than a dead one

For real. Seems like a legitimate course of action just based on that description although there could be, and probably is, more to it that we arent privy too.

 

[AniHawk]

"hey, let's go buy a copy of Halo 2!" would do the trick better than a taser.

Yeah, but after seeing that ending, he'd probably do it anyway.

 

[FortNinety]

i'm having trouble imagining a situation where a grown man can't restrain a 12 year old girl without a taser.

ok, ok, i can imagine them, but they're all HOT

:lol :lol