Thread: Arkansas Police Officer Tasers 10-Year Old Girl

Officer Dustin Bradshaw should get some kind of award/dismissal for reaching new levels of police stupidity.

The officer had been called to the girl's home in Ozark, Arkansas, by her mother because she was behaving in an unruly manner and refusing to take a shower.

Well, she's a 10-year old girl.

In a report on the incident the officer, Dustin Bradshaw, said the mother gave him permission to use the Taser.

One of the worst parents in the world.

When he arrived, the girl was curled up on the floor, screaming, and resisting as her mother tried to get her in the shower before bed.
"Her mother told me to take her if I needed to," the officer wrote.
The child was "violently kicking and verbally combative" when he tried to take her into custody and she kicked him in the groin.
He then delivered "a very brief drive stun to her back," the report said.

So apparently, tazering a little girl is preferable to just saying, "fuck it, have a shower in the morning".

The girl's father, Anthony Medlock, who is divorced from her mother, said the girl showed signs of emotional problems but did not deserve to be "treated like an animal".
He said: "Ten years old and they shot electricity through her body, and I want to know how the heck in God's green earth can they get away with this.
"If you can't pick the kid up and take her to your car, handcuff her, then I don't think you need to be an officer. She doesn't deserve to be treated like a dog. She's not a tiger." Local Mayor Vernon McDaniel said the FBI should investigate.

Totally. If you can't restrain a 10-year old girl without resorting to your tazer then you're a massive fuckin pussy who shouldn't be an officer. What if he didn't have his taser? Should he have clubbed her a bit with a nightstick? Also, in Arkansas, a tiger is a breed of dog.

He said: "People here feel like that he made a mistake in using a Taser, and maybe he did, but we will not know until we get an impartial investigation." The local Police Chief Jim Noggle said no disciplinary action was taken against Bradshaw.
"We didn't use the Taser to punish the child, just to bring the child under control so she wouldn't hurt herself or somebody else," he said.
He said if the officer tried to forcefully put the girl in handcuffs, he could have accidentally broken her arm or leg.
Mr Noggle said the girl will face disorderly conduct charges as a juvenile.

Fucking hell. Actually charging a little girl for throwing a tantrum because she didn't want to have a shower. Great work there dickheads! This just makes the police look like a massive joke.


Thanks to the Telegraph for the article.


Thoughts? Parents on here, would you call the police and allow them to taser your child if she threw a tantrum for not wanting a shower? Would you ever permit the use of force against your child when you could just say, 'fine, you canhave your shower tomorrow'?

Originally Posted by Brewtality

The kid was throwing a tantrum and her mother was obviously a bad parent. Doesn't seem like a medical/psychological case from here.

Dude, were you there? Do you know either of them? Do you know their past? Are you aware of the thousands of possible variables that have led up to this situation occurring? Or have you read one fucking article about it, and sat back wildly casting judgements on a situation you know next to nothing about? What the hell's happened to you man? You really think you're in any fucking place to judge the parenting skills of this woman? Here's something that might interest you, that came out today:

Threatened with a knife by a 14-year-old girl - it could be a disturbing headline from any national newspaper. But what if it happened in your own home and the teenager wielding the weapon was your own daughter?

Parents are regularly being threatened, abused, even beaten up by their own children, says a UK parental guidance charity. Many have reached the point where they are afraid to be left alone in the house with them.

New figures from Parentline Plus reveal its helpline received three calls a day on average last year from parents suffering verbal or physical abuse. For some it has been going on for years. (See box, right, for the story of one threatened mother.)

It says such aggression is more common than people think, but many parents don't ask for help because they feel ashamed. (And it's attitudes like yours, Brew, that contribute DIRECTLY to this feeling of shame.)

The range of abuse includes hitting, punching, shoving, punching holes in the wall and spitting, as well as having homes and possessions destroyed during rows.

"It's shocking how many parents are frightened of their children, but there's a lot of shame surrounding the issue and they don't speak out," says Valerie Outram, of Parentline Plus.
"It's like domestic violence was 20 or 30 years ago. It's hushed up, brushed under the carpet and no one talks about it."

Most of the violence is perpetrated by children aged 13 to 15, according to the organisation. But some parents call up about children as young as three, or grown-up offspring in their late 20s.

Mothers are the main target, making up 91% of callers. They are women of all ages and from all sections of society. But perhaps the most shocking finding is that daughters are more likely to be abusers than sons.

Read more, if you can stomach such pathetic parenting here: BBC News - Abused by their own children


Unbe-fucking-lievable.