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SD States 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 States 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 Departments 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
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)than tasing her.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)A man could pick her up with one hand.
Did you see the Pine Ridge officer keep tasing someone who could not get up?
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Shame on them.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)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)Nah, I'm not wondering at all.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)I would be so furious!!!!!! I am for this poor young girl!!!
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)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.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Me likey very much.
sunnystarr
(2,638 posts)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???
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)With maintaining a natiowide and complete data base of police activity involving shooting, and assaults on citizens, yet that still has not yet happened!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)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)He was fired but I bet he has another cop job.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)bobGandolf
(871 posts)Give me a break. This crap is getting totally out of hand.