Stun Gun Used On Handcuffed, 65-Pound, 13-Year-Old Girl

[docwebster]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- State Attorney Harry Shorstein said Wednesday that excessive force may have been used by police officers who used a stun gun on a 13-year-old girl who was being uncooperative after they took her into custody for fighting with her mother.

(No, really?)

Comments

[drake57.livejournal.com]

Hey that's in my own backyard..i think this is the fourth use of a stun gun against a child here in Florida.
Here in St. Augustine last year a man died from a heart attack after being tasered.

[nsingman.livejournal.com]

If the police account is true, I have little sympathy for the brat. I don't expect the police to risk significant injury to themselves when trying to subdue a violent perp, even if that violent perp is a child. Excessive force would have been shocking her after she had complied.

[ohsweetnothin.livejournal.com]

this is the kind of shit that makes me want to say goodbye to this world, and swallow these tylenol pm's

[odeyseus.livejournal.com]

This is why you have to be very carefull what powers you give to the police, sooner or later someone will abuse the power.

Stun guns are a usefull tool for the police but as with any weapon their use by law enforcement agents needs to be strictly regulated.