I’ve been tazed, yes it hurts, but it is less painful than the use of joint manipulation or using a night stick which can break bones, tear ligaments and cause severe bruising. I always hear people say “he should not have done ....”
What I don’t hear people say is what he should have done. The officer tried to get the man sized boy to comply. He tried to get his hands out and execute the arrest. It is called the escalation of force. It starts with a calm voice providing instructions to the person to be arrested and escalates from there.
This type of speculation about what the officer should have not done is nothing more than arm chair quarterbacking.
So if you have an idea about what the officer should have done .... THAT HE DID NOT ALREADY ATTEMPT, then please, enlighten us with your words of wisdom.
so, it would have been better if the NINE YEAR OLD was handcuffed, led out to a squad car, transported downtown, fingerprinted and mug shot taken, BECAUSE HE WAS HAVING A TEMPER TANTRUM LIKE NINE YEAR OLDS DO AND DID NOT WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL??? The mother is not a mother, the hyped out on steroids, on a power trip, you damn well better respect me cop is not a cop.... NINE YEARS OLD... ain’t you ever had kids before??? The more I think about this the angrier I get, and some of the ignorance being spewed on this thread is making me even more angry....
“So if you have an idea about what the officer should have done .... THAT HE DID NOT ALREADY ATTEMPT, then please, enlighten us with your words of wisdom.”
Well, Hell, the cop should have just taken out his night stick and beat the living shit out of the kid. I mean, if an adult can’t outsmart a 9 year old then the kid deserves to be beat to death, right?
Are you seriously so stupid that you need us to explain to you the options an adult has over a 9 year old???
Proper application of thumb to pressure point between ear and jaw works instantaneously in that type of resistance. No muss, no fuss. Poor training.
Not a problem. I don’t know what he tried and neither do you.But if he can’t calm a 9 year old he might want to look into some other work. The “man sized BOY” put his arms up...wow. He did not initiate an attack. he did not do anything except a normal protective reaction. He was a truant, not a criminal.
The cop was wrong. period.