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MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 08:52 PM Sep 2014

"The officers… were on the scene for just two minutes before tasering the (8 YO) youth."



SD State’s Attorney says Tasering Girl Was Best Option; Family Outraged

Vincent Schilling
9/4/14
Two months after an 8-year-old girl was tasered by a Pierre, South Dakota police officer in October of 2013, Hughes County State’s Attorney Wendy Kloeppner released a report which stated “she was satisfied with an independent investigation, deploying a taser was the best viable way to diffuse the situation,” and no charges would be filed against the officer or the child.

In a response to the report, which also includes a copy of the Pierre Police Department’s report, attorneys for the family, Dana Hanna and Patrick Duffy, told ICTMN the acts committed by the police were atrocious and that they do not believe the report accurately reflects what happened.

In addition, the mother of the child, Dawn Stenstrom, and the grandmother, Rose Stenstrom, have shared their emotionally charged outrage with ICTMN, claiming that several statements by the police were inaccurate and that the tasering of the girl could have easily been avoided.

Stenstrom says that the officers must not have made much effort to calm her daughter because she was tasered within two minutes of the police officers arriving on the scene.

As ICTMN reported last month, in October four Pierre police officers responded to a 911 call about an 8-year-old girl wielding a knife. The call came from the babysitter of the Rosebud Sioux girl, who told the dispatcher the girl was trying to cut herself. The officers, according to the police report, were on the scene for just two minutes before tasering the youth.


Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/09/04/sd-states-attorney-says-tasering-girl-was-best-option-family-outraged-156708

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"The officers… were on the scene for just two minutes before tasering the (8 YO) youth." (Original Post) MrScorpio Sep 2014 OP
What an adorable little girl. I'm sure if the police thought about it they would have done better Louisiana1976 Sep 2014 #1
I don't think they can " Think " or do " Better " that's how it happened . orpupilofnature57 Sep 2014 #5
America's Finest! nt Logical Sep 2014 #2
they tased that girl? AngryAmish Sep 2014 #3
Four grown men that can't handle an 8 year old girl without resorting to torture. Live and Learn Sep 2014 #4
Fire Them !!!! orpupilofnature57 Sep 2014 #6
Pierre? Dawn is Sioux, wondering about the cops. Better than shooting her, hitting with a baton or uppityperson Sep 2014 #7
Yeah, I wonder if an 8 year old white girl would have been tasered so quickly. Gormy Cuss Sep 2014 #12
Proof positive we need a complete overhaul in our present area of training law enforcement!!!! AuntPatsy Sep 2014 #8
Four Pierre police officers responded to a 911 call about an 8-year-old girl wielding a knife Kalidurga Sep 2014 #9
Me likey this idea. Brigid Sep 2014 #13
There's NEVER a reason to taze a child!! sunnystarr Sep 2014 #15
The goons in our Police Forces are over the edge because NOBODY IS PROSECUTED - Corrupt!!! blkmusclmachine Sep 2014 #10
And not only that but the DOJ was charged some 20 years ago truedelphi Sep 2014 #11
Yup. SoapBox Sep 2014 #16
American LE - Out Of Control - Yet Again cantbeserious Sep 2014 #14
Remember the woodcarver in Seattle? Man from Pickens Sep 2014 #17
And the Seattle taxpayers had to pay big for that tragedy and the officer was never charged. rhett o rick Sep 2014 #19
State's Attorney doesn't know the dif between "defusing" and "diffusing" ... ai yai yai ... nt eppur_se_muova Sep 2014 #18
4 Cops respond....and they still need a taser.... bobGandolf Sep 2014 #20

Louisiana1976

(3,962 posts)
1. What an adorable little girl. I'm sure if the police thought about it they would have done better
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 08:56 PM
Sep 2014

than tasing her.

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
3. they tased that girl?
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 09:00 PM
Sep 2014

A man could pick her up with one hand.

Did you see the Pine Ridge officer keep tasing someone who could not get up?

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
7. Pierre? Dawn is Sioux, wondering about the cops. Better than shooting her, hitting with a baton or
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 09:04 PM
Sep 2014

macing her? And those are the only options they could come up with? Maybe talk with her? Try and verbally defuse the situation rather than storming in and demanding things?

Indeed, I'd like to know more about the cops.

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
12. Yeah, I wonder if an 8 year old white girl would have been tasered so quickly.
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 10:00 PM
Sep 2014

Nah, I'm not wondering at all.

AuntPatsy

(9,904 posts)
8. Proof positive we need a complete overhaul in our present area of training law enforcement!!!!
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 09:13 PM
Sep 2014

I would be so furious!!!!!! I am for this poor young girl!!!

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
9. Four Pierre police officers responded to a 911 call about an 8-year-old girl wielding a knife
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 09:14 PM
Sep 2014

no concern about this at all. I am not saying the police did not act inappropriately we all know that it's a very common thing. But, the girl was having a temper tantrum and she had a knife some say paring knife, at eight that would have been enough in my hands for me to do a heck of a lot of damage if I was inclined. She looks like an angel and very vulnerable, but that doesn't tell me that she couldn't do some damage, probably not enough to kill someone, but a serious injury to herself or another person. To me this sounds like a cry for help from the girl. I think that calls like this should have a social worker on the response team.

sunnystarr

(2,638 posts)
15. There's NEVER a reason to taze a child!!
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 10:26 PM
Sep 2014

Adults have died being tazed. This is so despicable I don't understand why EVERYONE isn't totally outraged by it and I mean EVERYONE in the whole damn country! How low have we sunk as a society???

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
11. And not only that but the DOJ was charged some 20 years ago
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 09:23 PM
Sep 2014

With maintaining a natiowide and complete data base of police activity involving shooting, and assaults on citizens, yet that still has not yet happened!

 

Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)
17. Remember the woodcarver in Seattle?
Sat Sep 6, 2014, 11:37 PM
Sep 2014

Cop was on the scene for six seconds - literally - before he fired his weapon multiple times killing an innocent man.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
19. And the Seattle taxpayers had to pay big for that tragedy and the officer was never charged.
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 12:58 AM
Sep 2014

He was fired but I bet he has another cop job.

bobGandolf

(871 posts)
20. 4 Cops respond....and they still need a taser....
Sun Sep 7, 2014, 02:05 AM
Sep 2014

Give me a break. This crap is getting totally out of hand.

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