Police Officer Uses Taser On 10-Year-Old Girl, page 10

I had not realized the fact that the child was upset because she didn't want to go to bed.

Cop Tasers girl for resisting bedtime

I wonder if this means PARENTS can taser their children with impunity?

Originally posted by Rockstar1102
reply to post by truthquest

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A simple taze seems like a light punishment? Maybe next time you J-walk the cops should taze you...however you possibly compared that to getting a registration ticket is beyond my comprehension, but you should probably reconsider what your definition of "light punishment"

Yes, in point of fact I do know a simple taze is light punishment for getting kicked in the groin. I'll put up a $50 bet. Here is how it works. We get 10 males to participate in a survey. They survey is this: Would you rather A) get tazed by a tazer or B) get kicked in the groin by a 10-year-old girl. If more than 5 responders would rather take the kick in the groin, I'll send you $50. If More than 5 responders would rather take the taze as common sense would suggest then you have to send me $50. Deal?

No it won't be a deal because you'd lose and you know it. A taze is nothing compared to a "properly" landed kick to the groin. Therefore you know already that a taze is a light punishment for getting kicked in the groin and are just pretending to think otherwise.

And another thing, I never compared getting tazed to getting a registration ticket so that was just a misunderstanding on your part.

I did a little looking around just to add a bit of useful information to this thread. You see a 10 year old is quite small and I had a suspicion that the standard police taser may be rated for an adult sized person, so it may be more lethal when used against someone the size of a 10 year old.

To start with, I have found that the Linton Police Department uses the M-26 which delivers 50,000 Volts at 26 Watts, 162mA and 1.76 Joules.

Here, on Wikipedia, you can read that there have been law suits by Police offices who claim to have been injured when shocked during training classes. That comes right after a paragraph advising "tests on police and military volunteers have shown Tasers to function appropriately on a healthy, calm individual in a relaxed and controlled environment", although Amnesty International have concerns over use in the field as the conditions would differ from the test environment.
Also, it goes on to say that "the actual deployment of Tasers by police in the years since Tasers came into widespread use is claimed to have resulted in more than 180 deaths as of 2006".
So, evedence suggests that a taser can injure and kill an adult. No surprises there, but is there more risk when the person getting shocked is smaller than an adult? Well, according to the same site here, "Taser International asserts that the Taser is safe for use on anyone weighing 60 pounds (27 kg) or more."

That doesn't really answer my question though, I would like to know if the level of risk becomes greater as the subject getting tased becomes smaller. I would like to know that because according to www.mtas.tennessee.edu in 2003 "MTAS was asked to supply policies and procedures for police use of tasers" and that policy states that disparity must be considered when the appropriate level of force is decided. Basically, that means if somebody is smaller, weaker and less skilled (trained) than the officer, less force should be used on them. Disparity is not the only thing to be considered, but it is certainly part of it. So you see, at least in Tennessee, the use of a taser by a Police officer against a 10 year old seems to be against policy.

So if the risk to a small person is more great than to a normal adult sized person and the officer subjected them to that risk while acting outside of procedure... you can see how that could be something important to consider in this debate.

But I haven't found a factual answer to my question, there just isn't that much known about tazers. I looked, and the data just doesn't seem to exist.

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Editing to say that there was already plenty of useful information on this thread, I meant to say I just wanted to add a little more.

[edit on 1/12/2009 by Recouper]

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