Two police officers in Martinsville, Indiana have been placed on administrative leave after they were accused of assaulting and then TASERing a badly-behaving 10-year-old boy at a local daycare center.
"The release said that the officers, trying to prevent the child from hurting other children, staff members and himself, slapped the boy and then used a Taser to subdue him."
"We had to hurt the child to stop him from hurting himself". What doublespeak lunacy.
It's a sad day when two adults who are professionally trained in subduing large criminal suspects can't manage to restrain a small child without resorting to (and misusing) their favorite compliance tool.
Unless, of course, they never even bothered to try, and merely lit the poor kid up right out of the gate.
The results of this internal investigation should be quite illuminating.
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Notice that they slapped the boy, and the officers' names weren't given.
Five will get you ten they were women about 5'2" tall, for whom a ten year old boy of above average size and strength might have actually posed some difficulty in subduing.
There are some jobs for which physical size and strength is a real requirement, and police work is one of them. Sorry to be "politically mistaken," but there are studies out there that demonstrate that the likelihood of injurious or lethal force goes up exponentially as the size and strength of officers goes down.
Oops. Fox says it was two men, and the boy weighed only 94 lbs. We are not talking a freak of nature here.....and we are talking some serious lawyers, I think.
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