Moment butcher knife-wielding Florida boy aged ELEVEN is tasered by cops after threatening to kill himself and his sister during tantrum over video game

Daily Mail UK ^ | March 16, 2024 | Kamal Sultan

[Morgana]

An 11-year-old boy in Florida who was wielding a butcher knife and threatening to kill himself and his sister during a tantrum over a video game has been tasered by officers.

Wesley Hinton began getting angry following the dispute and grabbed a blade before his 10-year-old sister phoned 911 during the incident on January 20.

Deputies from the Broward Sheriff’s Office arrived on the scene and say Wesley ran the knife over parts of his body including his wrists, stomach and held it at his chest.

Surveillance footage shows deputies pleading with him to drop the weapon for at least 30 minutes before he appeared to reach for it again and was tasered.

His mother Samantha Hinton claims he has struggled to function since the incident and he said he is traumatized to this day.

Video from the incident shows Wesley holding a large butcher knife in his hand.

Deputies attempt to get him to drop it and he lays it down momentarily before he appears to pick it back up and he is tasered.

'It looked like I tried to grab it again, but I was about to do this and then — shot,' Wesley told WTVJ.

'The juvenile male, according to deputy, continued to reiterate he had intentions to harm himself,' a Broward Sheriff’s Office spokesman said.

'And at some point the deputy said he ran that large knife over parts of his body, stomach and wrist and chest.

'Deputies utilized their training and were able to save that juvenile life and also prevent injury to anyone else.'

[Zathras]

At least they didn’t shoot him to save his life.
Actually not a bad solution to normally a no win scenario.
Now get the kid off drugs, off computer games and into therapy.

[Bob434]

I’m still in training

[EinNYC]

I believe that if I, or any of my siblings, ever had a tantrum that lasted over 15 seconds, we’d have been sent to the middle of next week. And that would’ve been the last tantrum ever.

That's the difference between a parent and someone who wants to be their kid's "friend". Some discipline applied now heads off extreme incidents like this in the future, in most cases. Sounds like these are parent wannabes, not real functional parents.

[Jonty30]

Throwing a tantrum over video games would be the end of video games.

[Bigg Red]

Sounds like mom is hoping for a law suit.

[Vendome]

Autistic...

[yldstrk]

But since we have parents that refuse to discipline the cops have to do it for them
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That’s not the problem. Did you see the utter chaos that poor child is living in? That place was dark and cluttered, I bet everything is a mess and dirty, nothing makes sense, no routine, no plans, no point to life. I recognized it immediately as that is exactly how I grew up.