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In reply to the discussion: Taser Used on Naked, 11 Year Old Autistic Girl Wandering Lost [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)3. Dam cops can be brutally dumb sometimes.
This is why you NEVER want to deal with LEO, only if it is absolutely essential. Otherwise they are just as likely to hurt you, as help you.
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Taser Used on Naked, 11 Year Old Autistic Girl Wandering Lost [View all]
The Straight Story
Jun 2013
OP
Damn it!!! police must be better trained to recognize autistic and MR kids who can't respond!
JackN415
Jun 2013
#2
a naked 11-year old & they copuldn't just grab her? quite obviously not hiding a weapon,
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#6
made me sick when I read this. it never occured to them that this was a CHILD? I remember
niyad
Jun 2013
#14
Why do they have to taser or shoot someone simply because they don't repsond. Shouldn't they save
liberal_at_heart
Jun 2013
#13
You understand that the cops don't write the manuals? They are required to follow it.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#18
And there is no company in teh US that takes away an employee's power of individual
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#44
She's 11. If their policy calls for tasering a non-aggressive kid, they should change their policy.
pnwmom
Jun 2013
#24
Happy birthday, wish I could have offered it under better circumstances. And also...
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#32
So basically the dude tazed that little naked napalmed girl running down the road in Vietnam.
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#29