mvpel writes:
>>Could you please explain in specific detail, step by step, how you would have taken down an angry six-year-old waving around a sharp piece of glass with which he's already cut himself a few times, without using a Taser?<<
From the news article:
"The cop caught him before he hit the floor."
That's pretty quick. The Tueller Drill, which I teach in my CCW classes, indicates that most any adult can cover a distance of 21 feet from a standing start in appx 1.5 seconds. How far away you figure those 3 cops were from the 6 year old if one could catch him before he dropped from a taser hit which is almost immediate, even in the case of a large unruly adult male, using modern police EMD tasers.
Distract the kid with a loud noise or shouting his name from one direction and from the other direction a prepared officer rushes the kid and grabs the arm of the hand holding the glass. Even on the very remote chance the kid has a chance to turn even a 6 year old will start to react instinctively against a surprise oncoming threat rather than to purposely cut himself, but then that might present some risk to the officer.
These "trained" officers were adults possessing common sense?
Anger management and violence reduction classes taught to kids, by police and/or teachers, stress talking and de-escalating a situation IRT conflict resolution. That's what we tell the kids to do themselves. In this case however we bring in 3 armed uniformed cops in addition to a security guard and the "child educators" already in the room with a disturbed/distraught child to "calm things down".
I have disarmed a grown man with a knife and an attitude before....I somehow think that that's a little more difficult than a six year old with a piece of glass.
But I geuss we wouldn't want to hurt the little dear. Would we?
Perhaps the cops were nervous that they would be overpowered by him.