However, the girl supposedly kicked the officer in the groin when he approached. "He had no other choice [but to Taser her]," Ozark Police Choief [sic] Jim Noggle reportedly said. "He had to get the child under control."<\/font><\/p>\n According to the Associated Press<\/a>, the officer’s name is Dustin Bradshaw. His aggressive approach to dealing with a child has the girl’s father enraged.<\/font><\/p>\n "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," Anthony Medlock reportedly said. <\/font><\/p>\n Ozark police argued that had the officer grabbed the girl, he could have hurt her. "If you grab somebody, you can slip an arm out of joint," the police chief added. "They can slip from you and fall on the ground."… <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Raw Story<\/a>><\/p>\n It seems that almost every month I read a story about the abusive use of a TASER by police, including several fatalities. <\/p>\n The chief\u2019s defense is absurd. Shooting thousands of volts of electricity through a ten year old body has to be more dangerous than the possibility of dropping the child, given that the TASER has killed full grown adults. The mother who gave permission, if the officer is not testilying about that, is equally responsible. The cop should be fired, branded on his forehead with a scarlet T, and forbidden to work in any phase of law enforcement ever again.<\/p>\n Somehow too many police officers (certainly not all) have gotten the notion that they can use the TASER in any and all circumstances. Until such time as training can be upgraded sufficiently for officers to respect the TASER\u2019s lethal potential and use it only when appropriate, the weapon should be banned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a hard time believing this one. It was an encounter one Ozark 10-year-old will likely never forget. Called to a home to help control an allegedly "unruly child," an Ozark police officer was reportedly told by the girl’s mother that he could use the electric weapon to subdue her, according to 40\/29 News […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"taser\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/CopTASES10YearOldGirl_28F3\/taser.jpg\" "\\"taser\\"")
<\/a> Called to a home to help control an allegedly "unruly child," an Ozark police officer was reportedly told by the girl’s mother that he could use the electric weapon to subdue her,<\/font> according to 40\/29 News Arkansas<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n