Posted on 05/25/2006 7:50:45 PM PDT by DuckFan4ever
Security Director First Sprayed Pepper Spray
DES MOINES, Wash. -- A police officer used a TASER gun on a student to break up a fight between two juniors at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines Thursday. The Highline School District's director of security was in the high school when the fight broke out in the school cafeteria at 7:30 a.m.
The first time the two students fighting ignored the security director's orders to stop fighting, he sprayed them with pepper spray. When that didn't stop the fight, the school's resource officer took out a TASER gun and jolted one of the boys on the back of his shoulder.
Neither student required hospitalization.
Both of the students involved in the fight have been suspended from school. Many students witnessed the incident.
well stated point
How about using real lead???
When I was 17 and a junior in HS I was 6 foot tall and weighed 175 lbs. Plenty of other kids who were bigger than me. It's one thing when you are talking young teenagers but these kids didn't stop when the spray was administered so that tells me that they were likely not small kids and that they were really going at it.
At least the cop had the sense to use esclating force on them... First Pepperspray, then the TAZER. If that did not work, then firearms would have been used.
The person who ZAPPED them was the same person who claimed pepper didn't work. Go figure.
you're welcome....next time I'll charge you
You must have gone to Ulitmate Fighting Championship High. Was Hoyce Gracie your classmate by any chance?
Wouldn't it be nice if it were the 70-80's again, and kids actually respected not only their parents - other kids parents - and hey! the principal too.
If my kid cam to me and said he didn't stop fighting after multiple warnings AND PEPPER SPRAY, but finally the Tazer took him down, I'd ask him what he might have learned...
Then, if they start to cause trouble, or experience impure thoughts, it could be activated from afar, and LEO's could just pick 'em up like a piece of cordwood.
Unless, of course, you want to turn the situation into two people duking it out with a third person.
"kinoxi knows all i see..."
When I graduated from HS I only weighed 155 lbs. My 14 yr old freshman son is 6'2", 240 lbs, and wears a size 15 shoe - a record for the school's Jr ROTC.
But then, he has been taught respect for authority and still has a healthy fear of his old man too. He knows the pepper spray and tazer would just be the beginning of his punishment.
YOU were at Mt. Rainier High School today?
WTF?... way over my head...
Obviously....
mt rainier... please explain
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