Wild Child, 10, Tasered Over Bath Time Rage

[Fixx]

An unruly 10-year-old girl has been given a Taser stun gun jolt after she kicked an Arkansas policeman in the groin.

Police were called to a home in Ozark, near Little Rock, over a domestic disturbance, according to a report by Officer Dustin Bradshaw.

When he arrived, the girl was curled up on the floor and screaming, he wrote.

The youngster was also kicking and resisting every time her mother tried to get her in the shower before bed, the report continued.

Mr Bradshaw wrote: "Her mother told me to 'tase' her, if I needed to."

The officer tried to take the girl into custody but she was "violently kicking and verbally combative" and struck him, the report continued.

So he delivered "a very brief drive stun to her back", the report said.

The girl's father Anthony Medlock told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that his daughter has emotional problems, but she was unarmed and should not have been tasered.

"My daughter does not deserve to be tasered and be treated like an animal," said Mr Medlock, who is divorced from the girl's mother and does not have custody.

Ozark mayor Vernon McDaniel said the youngster was not injured but wanted Arkansas State Police to investigate the incident.

"People here feel like that he made a mistake in using a Taser, and maybe he did, but we will not know until we get an impartial investigation," Mr McDaniel said.

The state police refused to launch a probe, saying it only gets involved with criminal investigations rather than matters of policy.

Police Chief Jim Noggle said no disciplinary action was taken against the officer and insisted Tasers are a safe way to subdue people who are a danger to themselves or others.

"We didn't use the Taser to punish the child - just to bring the child under control so she wouldn't hurt herself or somebody else," Mr Noggle said.

The girl, who was taken to Western Arkansas Youth Shelter in Cecil, will face disorderly conduct charges.

Yahoo News UK

[MacCruiskeen]

Horrible. Grotesque is the new normal.

Also grotesque & horrible, but so normal it will barely be noticed (much less condemned), is a parent reducing a little girl to a screaming wreck merely for resisting orders.

The girl, who was taken to Western Arkansas Youth Shelter in Cecil, will face disorderly conduct charges.

So now she's a criminal too!

No doubt she'll eventually be diagnosed schizophrenic.

[Joe Hillshoist]

Its pretty bad isn't it.

[MacCruiskeen]

Its pretty bad isn't it.

This stuff drives me crazy, Joe. The appalling Michael Schofield case is just the tip of the iceberg. So many parents regard their children as items of property. Instead of protecting those kids, the law then adds insult to injury by locking them up.

Just saw your post about the tiny kid in Australia charged with "receiving stolen goods" after his mate gave him a chocolate bar...

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Police were called to a home... over a domestic disturbance.. youngster was also kicking and resisting... her mother tried to get her in the shower before bed.

The parents should've been done with wasting police time, like they undoubtedly would have been till recently. But it's a new world now, where society fears children.

What changed? When did cops became so scared of kids that they deployed and readied their less-lethal weapons before entering a possible seething nest OF KIDS.

The Mother and everyonbe else in the vicinity should be judged unfit for childcare after asking some worthless moronic weakling bastard to come into the home and electrocute a child in the fuckling bathroom


The bathroom. Where water lives. For Fuck's Sake.

The girl's father Anthony Medlock rightly murdered the police officer in question

Sadly, i made that last bit up.

[Joe Hillshoist]

The Mother and everyonbe else in the vicinity should be judged unfit for childcare after asking some worthless moronic weakling bastard to come into the home and electrocute a child in the fuckling bathroom.

To right Ahab. If a cop tased my 10 year old I might actually kill them. Seriously. I'm not advocating murder, but I imagine upon hearing or seeing that I'd lose the plot. I reckon my version of a rage alter would kick in and I'd have no desire to control it at all.

Mac, ever seen this?

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."

And he said:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.




http://leb.net/~mira/works/prophet/prophet4.html

It should probably be tattooed onto peoples brains when they become parents.

[Nordic]

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."

And he said:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
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http://leb.net/~mira/works/prophet/prophet4.html

It should probably be tattooed onto peoples brains when they become parents.

Damn, Joe. Thanks for that. That's a keeper.

As a parent of a 7 year old son, that almost made me cry.

[Joe Hillshoist]

I don't have kids but it has a similar effect on me.

My parents showed me that when I was a teenager, it definitely influenced them, especially considering how socially conservative the cultures they were raised in were.

Its only as an adult that I really appreciated how much it influenced them, and how they strove to live up to it.

[smoking since 1879]

um, yeah. what he said.

except ...

It should probably be tattooed onto peoples brains when they become parents.

I think should be..

It should probably be tattooed onto peoples brains *before* they become parents.

just sayin...

P

[elfismiles]

Cop Tasers girl for resisting bedtime

The local police chief in Ozark, Arkansas is standing behind one of his officers who tasered a 10-year-old girl who was refusing to go to bed.

The bizarre story is laid out in a police incident report obtained by website The Smoking Gun.

Officer Dustin Bradshaw was called to the home by a woman complaining that her daughter was being unruly and refusing to go to sleep. Bradshaw wrote that when he arrived at the home, he found Kiara Medlock "balled up in (sic) the floor crying and screaming."

After watching her mother attempt to get Kiara into the bathtub with little success, Bradshaw took the girl into the living room and threatened her with jail. That didn't settle things down. At some point, Bradshaw claims Kiara's mother told him to "taser her if I needed to."

Bradshaw then tried to handcuff Kiara. But he couldn't manage that either.

To hear Bradshaw tell it, he was now in the midst of a full-on brawl on the living-room floor with Kiara, a Grade 5 student. The 65-pounder was "verbally combative ... struck me with her legs and feet in the groin," Bradshaw wrote.

That's when he reached for his holster and delivered a "very very (sic) brief drive stun to her back with my taser."

Unsurprisingly, Kiara's struggling stopped immediately. Bradshaw then cuffed her and carried her to his squad car, since she could no longer walk.

The incident hit the news when Kiara's father, Anthony Medlock, took exception. Medlock does not live with Kiara's mother.

"I want to know how the heck in God's green earth can they get away with this ... If you can't pick the kid up and take her to your car, handcuff her, then I don't think you need to be an officer," Medlock told local Ozark 40/29 news. He said his daughter has shown signs of emotional issues, but she "doesn't deserve to be treated like a dog."

The local police chief stood behind Bradshaw and his decision.

"He had no other choice. He had to get the child under control," said Ozark police Chief Jim Noggle.

No disciplinary action is pending against Bradshaw. However, the Associated Press has reported that the FBI has dispatched agents to Arkansas to investigate.

Medlock said he will attempt to gain sole custody of his daughter.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/artic ... -go-to-bed


More:

Parenting tip of the day: Don't resort to Tasering
http://thestar.blogs.com/parentcentral/ ... taser.html

[Joe Hillshoist]

um, yeah. what he said.

except ...

It should probably be tattooed onto peoples brains when they become parents.

I think should be..

It should probably be tattooed onto peoples brains *before* they become parents.

just sayin...

P

Yeah good point.

[MacCruiskeen]

Another one...

Colorado cops say Tasered 10-year-old boy was ‘out of control’

By Daniel Tencer
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 -- 9:54 pm

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/cops-taser-10yearold-boy/

For at least the second time in three weeks, police officers have shocked an unruly 10-year-old child, and, once again, the child's adult guardians are supporting the move.

Sheriff's deputies in Pueblo, Colorado, Tasered a 10-year-old boy after arriving at the child's home Monday evening, after the boy had threatened them with a stick and a length of pipe. As of Thursday evening, the boy remained in a youth jail, according to KCNC channel 4 in Denver.

The deputies involved described the boy as an "out-of-control juvenile."

The Colorado incident follows a similar case last month, when a 10-year-old girl in Ozark, Arkansas, was Tasered after kicking an approaching officer in the groin. In that case, the girl's mother had suggested to the officer that he use a Taser.

While the foster father of the Colorado boy didn't recommend using the Taser, he did support the officers' decision.

"A two-foot piece of pipe can do a lot of damage, I don't care who's swinging it," Daniel Bilby told KCNC. Bilby said the police could have done more harm to his foster son -- whose name is being withheld because of his age -- if they had tried to tackle him.

Capt. Jeff Teschner of the Pueblo County Sheriff's Department told the Pueblo Chieftain that the officers were justified in their use of force.

"They followed all policies and procedures. This was appropriate use of the Taser device," Teschner said.

The Chieftain reports:

Deputies Mark Myers and Randy Mondragon were sent to foster parent Daniel Biby's home to help with an "out of control juvenile" who was reportedly destroying property. Mondragon said the boy had threatened Biby with a pipe and a stick, and had thrown a landscape timber at Biby.

Mondragon said that when deputies arrived, the boy ran away from them holding a 2-foot-long pipe.

"This lad, we have a long history of (him) running away. I don't know what his entire psychological profile is, but obviously he has [sic] emotional distress," Teschner said.

The recent incidents of Taser use on children will likely spur debate on the ethical and safety issues involved in using conducted energy weapons on youths.

The weapon's manufacturer, Taser International, says the weapon is safe to use on any person weighing 60 lbs. or more. But some past incidents of Taser use on children have led observers to question whether there should be more severe restrictions on Taser use for children than there are for adults.

In one 2004 incident, a six-year-old boy was Tasered by police at a Miami school after he had broken a picture and threatened to cut himself with the glass. The boy's mother argued that the three police officers involved could not have been legitimately in danger from such a small child.

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/cops-taser-10yearold-boy/

[freemason9]

God dammit, these cops are getting way out of control, and it stems from an utter lack of accountability. They are not monitored, and they answer only to themselves and to investigatory boards--composed of cops. Cops lie as much as felons to; it's a matter of accepted policy, and it happens every day. I assure you of this. Because of the company they keep and the societal elements they are exposed to, they very quickly become sociopathic.

We need to take these damned tasers way from cops. All police activity must be on video--civilian video. And police misconduct accusations must be reviewed by a civilian board.

And we need a civilian police force assigned to policing the cops.

[chiggerbit]

We need to take these damned tasers way from cops

Oh, I don't know. I might be ok with the cops tasering the parents. I'd have to think on it a bit, first.

[MacCruiskeen]

"This lad, we have a long history of (him) running away. I don't know what his entire psychological profile is, but obviously he has emotional distress," Teschner said.

That line is creepier than any other in the whole article. Why on earth do people talk that way?* It's completely artificial. And if that's the way they talk, then that's the way they think and feel too. And act.

"This lad,

Fine, that's the way an averagely-sympathetic human being might refer to a ten-year-old kid in his local community.

we have a long history of (him) running away.

So why does he keep running away? Surely that's the very first question a local cop should be asking! But apparently he never thinks to ask it.

I don't know what his entire psychological profile is,

So now Captain Leschner needs a "psychological profile" [from whom? some professional? why?] before he can begin to work out - or even ask! - what's bugging a ten-year-old kid who keeps running away from home??

but obviously he has emotional distress," Teschner said.

"Has"? "Has" emotional distress?? You mean the way some kids have mumps or measles, or some dogs have rabies? So now a child's unhappiness counts as a disease, or what? Maybe it's an infestation? (Bobby has lice, Billy has emotional distress.) Or is it GENETIC?

Just incredible. And so the child gets zapped.

*I think the answer is pretty clear: He talks that way, in very large part, because of TV.