Posted on 06/24/2005 10:07:17 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
A deputy Tasered an intoxicated 13-year-old girl who was kicking and scratching two hospital nurses, officials said.
April Rene Burleson, who is 4-foot-9 and weighs 90 pounds, had a blood alcohol level of 0.175 percent and was under the influence of marijuana and the prescription drug Xanax, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
"You have to understand, she was lashing out, kicking and scratching," sheriff's spokeswoman Ileana LiMarzi. "She was acting like an adult who needed to be restrained. Just because she's 13 doesn't mean she can't harm somebody."
Burleson was charged with loitering, disorderly public intoxication, battery by a juvenile on health services personnel, battery on an officer and resisting an officer. She was sent to the Lee County Juvenile Assessment Center.
Burleson was walking on the street at 2:50 a.m. Thursday when a deputy picked her up on the loitering charge. She was first brought to her mother, who agreed to have the girl medically cleared at Lee Memorial Hospital before being processed.
According to sheriff's reports, Burleson had been combative with Deputy Chad Edwards before they reached the hospital, then screamed at the hospital staff and injured the nurses and Edwards.
Burleson was shocked with the Taser in the chest, then held in four-point restraints during her exam, deputies said.
I've seen a patient break a nurses jaw but never the other way around.
My mom worked in a mental hospital in the 50's. Before Thorazine. Before tasers. And it wasn't the juvenile wing.
"My mom worked in a mental hospital in the 50's. Before Thorazine. Before tasers. And it wasn't the juvenile wing."
Are you saying your mom broke a patients jaw.
Are you saying your mom broke a patients jaw.
Absolutely not.
I would think if they're close enough to taser, they're close enough to use a 'tranquilizing dart'.
LOL!!!!!!
They probably didn't know what chemicals she had in her at that point, as well as not knowing her weight for dosage.
If she had died, there might be some news value to this report; but she didn't, so why does it matter how she had to be restrained? What's the acceptable weight of biting, kicking people for tasering? They must've used a low setting, if there is such a thing, since they still had to restrain her afterwards.
April Rene Burleson, who is 4-foot-9 and weighs 90 pounds
Yeah, they have put a bullet in her brain.
If you have ever been in a close up situation with a totally berserk person, I don't think you would be asking that question. Particularly one that's chemically induced. It defies belief.
If the little ho want to ACT like an animal,
shoot her with a tranquilizer dart!
:)
Just curious, when and what was your last injury?
Agreed. 100%.
If you can't control a 90-lb (40kg) 13-year-old girl with your hands on her wrists and some stern, calm talk, then you are way too pussified to be a cop. All of those drugs are "downers" and she was chemically predidposed to passivity.
Incidentally, regarding your tagline: I'm not sure where you got that from, but I believe the proper translation is "A military operation involves deception." Your version, "All war is deception," is factually erroneous and philosphically *stupid*.
An orthopedist I know had his wrist shattered by a patient. They were unable to repair it and restore function to his hand. He is now out of a job.
>A taser is NOT the weapon to restrain someone in that state. It is a good way to potentially give them a heart attack however.
Sounds reasonable, but what should they have done instead?
I'm afraid that if I was her mother and had access to a taser I'd have to use it. 13 and drunk AND stoned? She needs an azz whoopin' and then she needs some serious help.
dat devil weed marijuana!!!
bony assed little ferret woulda slipped right out of them!!
Crack babies become this, according to people I know. It's sad.
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