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Cops Gone Wild: Wash The Car Or Taste The Tazer Edition
AngelHedgie
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Three fucking days? You have to be shitting me. People wonder why public perception of cops is so low - here's why. This should never have been able to happen. Period. The only thing the trial should be determining is if the cop was to be dismissed for incompetence or actual malice.
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.
Three fucking days? You have to be shitting me. People wonder why public perception of cops is so low - here's why. This should never have been able to happen. Period. The only thing the trial should be determining is if the cop was to be dismissed for incompetence or actual malice.
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No, I think a cop tazering a 10 year old kid for refusing to wash his police cruiser merits its own thread.
Wow.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
This guy and that judge (ex-judge?) in TX should get together and present a class on how not to discipline children who don't listen to you.
The point is that an officer should treat his Taser as he would his sidearm. At no time should it have ever been pointed at anyone he wasn't going to light up like a Christmas tree.
Hell it was a 10 year old kid. The Taser probably had a higher chance of killing him than a single bullet.
But he did mean to light the kid up
This isn't incompetence here, it's straight up deliberate malice
Doesn't matter, though, it's still criminal negligence, and he should be both fired and charged.
1) The guy just Dirty Harry-style decides he's gonna fry a kid, "Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police," bzzzaaap.
2) The guy pulls out the taser, threateningly telling the kid, "Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police," and then, like an incompetent moron playing around with weapons, accidentally hits the trigger, fires the barbs, bzzzaaap.
If anyone else had done this, the guy would be in jail awaiting arraignment, probably after having been roughed up and then 'resisting arrest' added to the charges and the police would be talking about this 'horrific' crime, and how 'justice' will be done.
That might have led to a whole week suspension.
Three fuckin' days, huh?
Wow.
Anyone knows whats the current status of this? Any new official statements, anyone suing or threatening to sue... I mean, this should concern, if not the family of the kid, a myriad of civil groups dealing with police brutality to child abuse and everything inbetween.
(he should be properly judged regardless of media coverage, but things that go unseen usually have a much higher chance of not being delt with apropiately)
Edit: The link in the OP does say that the cop is facing a civil suit, wich is ridiculous, BUT at least its not as if this horrible act has gone completely unnoticed or devoid of repercusion.
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I would hope unpaid, but knowing how this shit usually goes down...
Dude, I was not defending the guy. I was just saying I could see it being an accident because this cop handles a taser like Barney Fife handles guns. That doesn't mean "It was an accident"="Get off with a hand slap".
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/10-year-old-tasered?page=1
edit: Also has documents about the court proceedings filed by the mother against the officer. Pretty damning.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/queens_cop_kills_unarmed_driver_qCCu7n6WNQgHyfhmecjz4K
Cop road rages then just straight up executes an unarmed motorist with his hands on the steering wheel in front of two witnesses. He'll probably retire with full pension.
Trick question: The weapon is never unloaded.
Heck, I'm better trained than this guy.
Wait, are we dealing with Cops or with Reavers?
... never mind, in the US they appear to be almost one and the same.
Look, I usually find myself ending up trying to be the voice of reason with these things, but this one is just flat out fucked up. Incompetance or malice, either way... totally fucked up.
Seriously what the fuck was going on?
I'm pretty sure the article said it was career day. Possibly the cop thought that maybe the kids would like to learn how to be gas station attendants.
quit
Conspiracy to commit cannibalism, it seems.
He'll be rewarded a medal for valour in the line of duty, more than likely.
at least no one got tazed on the cotton picking field trip
All you have to do is point out when another cop crosses the line or try to stop another cop from crossing the line :bz
He should be charged to the fullest extent of the law. If the story is exactly as described above, then he should be charged with assault with a deadly weapon and criminal neglience for failing to get the kid proper medical care.