Reply #169: The cop's other main alternatives before tasers

[pnwmom]

were using the baton -- i.e., knocking the kid out, because otherwise the kid could just grab the baton from the cop -- or using pepper spray, or mace, both of which would have affected the girl.

The officer was only 5 feet tall. You're critizing me for not knowing of alternatives, and yet I'm not a police officer or a teacher. What do you suggest as an alternative way for a small woman to pull a large, violent, boy off of a tiny girl? Without the officer getting hurt herself? And don't forget the girl's risk of serious injury is increasing by the second -- there isn't time to call around the school for reinforcements.