Cop suspended after Tasering 10-year-old girl - for not using camera

[RamboLiberal]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission has been suspended — not for using the weapon but for not having a video camera attached when he used it.

Mayor Vernon McDaniel said officer Dustin Bradshaw was suspended Wednesday for seven days with pay for not following department procedures, because he didn't have the camera on.

McDaniel wants Arkansas State Police or the FBI to look into whether the use of the Taser was proper. The girl, who hasn't been identified, wasn't injured and is now at youth shelter.

Police were called to the home Nov. 11 after the girl's mother couldn't get her to take a shower.

Bradshaw's report says the girl was "violently kicking and verbally combative" when Bradshaw tried to take her into custody, and she kicked him in the groin. He said he delivered "a very brief drive stun to her back."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34037284/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

[G_j]

1. a week's paid vacation

not bad!

:sarcasm:

[Echo In Light]

8. Uniquely American

[joeybee12]

2. I'm sorry but no 10-year-old is big enough to be a threat to a cop...

...outlaw tasers, they are like candy ot toys to cops.

[LiberalFighter]

7. I agree. I would had thrown a blanket over her to disable her.

Better yet, call for backup and/or youth services.

[MindPilot]

3. Who calls the police because the kid won't take a shower?

My mother would've said "fine; go to school dirty and let the other kids tell you that you stink."

[Echo In Light]

9. Someone who ought not be a parent

[prole_for_peace]

4. Her mom called the cops cause the girl wouldn't take a shower??!!

WTF?!

[Sanity Claws]

5. What was he taking her into custody for?

What law did she break? None.
Poor judgment. When the mother called, the police should have told her that this is not a police matter.

[Cali_Democrat]

13. The police won't tell the mother that it's not a police matter.

They are just itching to use those tasers and they could care less if it's a 10-year-old girl.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. The girl was arrested for assault on the officer. The father is livid. The mother was on TV saying

she only called the police to protect the child from hurting herself or others. It's been implied that the little girl has some sort of mental problem and that she is hard to control.

The state police are going to investigate as the Ozark PD doesn't have a guideline regarding tasers and children.

[G_j]

10. no guideline regarding tasers and children,

does this make sense?

how about the elderly?

[notadmblnd]

11. her mother called the cops for not taking a shower?

Wow! What parenting skills this woman has. I took in my eleven yr old niece a few years back, she didn't like to get in the shower either, but once in, you couldn't' get her out. I didn't beat her ass to get her to improve her hygiene. I didn't fight with her at all. In fact I told her I wasn't going to say another word about her personal hygiene because her friends would do it for me. Being embarrassed by her peers was much more effective than anything I could have done. She's 18 years old now and no longer has an aversion to water.

Shame on the big bad cop who couldn't control a little girl with out tasering her. What a man he must feel like? I'll bet if he has children, he beats them too.

[Hepburn]

12. I just read this too...

...glad the asshole is off the streets no matter what financial arrangements he has with his LE agency.

At least 10 years olds are safe for a bit.

JMHO