cop tazes kid in the spine

[jason73]

The footage was given to us from our friends at FilmingCops.com.

According to the person who took the video, the 13-year-old was simply skateboarding when the officer approached.

The witness explained the details to FilmingCops:

The child was 13-yrs-old (on the video other witnesses assume he’s “15 or 16″ but according to the source he is in fact 13). He was riding on his skateboard with other young boys behind a shopping center, and there happened to be a patrol car parked nearby.

At some point an officer inside of the patrol car told the 13-yr-old child to “get in the car.”

The child replied, “Why?”

The officer then warned, “You don’t want to get dropped.”

According to witnesses, the officer then attacked the boy, hitting him from behind as the boy was skateboarding. He then got on the boys back and began choking him, according to witnesses. The video shows the choking and the subsequent tasering to the child’s spine.

The boy can be heard in the video writhing in pain as the officer attempts to subdue him.

“Put your fucking hands behind your back!” shouts the officer. To which the child replies, “I can’t.”

The witnesses can be heard telling the officer, “He’s just a kid.”

The officer then loads the beaten and tasered child into his patrol car and begins walking towards the people filming. The video then ends.

According to the witnesses, the officer then proceeded to confiscate everyone’s cellphones and deleted their video. This one video below managed to make it out.

The Free Thought Project reached out to the San Diego Sheriff’s Department Fallbrook location, but they were unable to provide any details.

 

[Robbie Hart]

What the fuc-? I have to look into this more. The difficulty here is, "hey, call the police, uh, call a different police".....

 

[ThatOneDude]

Isolated incident right guys?

 

[Zeph]

Feared for his life, no doubt.

 

[Wild]

Disgusting. The pricks like this guy in the video, give good cops (and there are plenty) a bad name. It's a huge problem for US law enforcement. A small % of idiots give everyone a bad rap. This fuck should be terminated and prosecuted to the fullest extent.

 

[Robbie Hart]

Isolated incident right guys?

Possibly, but isn't that the standard response which could be either an individual who abuses his position or we need more of the story?

 

[ThatOneDude]

Possibly, but isn't that the standard response which could be either an individual who abuses his position or we need more of the story?

That cop just wanted to get home to his family

 

[Robbie Hart]

Disgusting. The pricks like this guy in the video, give good cops (and there are plenty) a bad name. It's a huge problem for US law enforcement. A small % of idiots give everyone a bad rap. This fuck should be terminated and prosecuted to the fullest extent.

Maybe we on,y saw the video that excluded some lawbreaking activity, just saying.........and I'm known for jumping all over what I believe to be abusive cops.......though, either way I have a problem with someone choking another and feeling the need to taser said person in the spine.....need to know the whole story, wishy washy as I am with these things....

 

[Wild]

Maybe we on,y saw the video that excluded some lawbreaking activity, just saying.........and I'm known for jumping all over what I believe to be abusive cops.......though, either way I have a problem with someone choking another and feeling the need to taser said person in the spine.....need to know the whole story, wishy washy as I am with these things....

We'll never know the whole story, but if witness accounts & the cop trying to erase all video (evidence) mean anything, this guy is an asshole that should do time.

 

[ThatOneDude]

Maybe we on,y saw the video that excluded some lawbreaking activity, just saying.........and I'm known for jumping all over what I believe to be abusive cops.......though, either way I have a problem with someone choking another and feeling the need to taser said person in the spine.....need to know the whole story, wishy washy as I am with these things....

They were probably breaking the law by skateboarding. Clearly putting other people's lives, including the officers and their own at risk. One of them could have fallen and cracked their head open. I applaud the officer for stopping their nefarious activities and protecting them from hurting themselves.

 

[MMAHAWK]

Isolated incident right guys?

Not isolated just 1 in about a million confrontations a day.

 

[FeeO]

I thought we taught kids not to get in strangers' cars. Cops should support that.

Okay check it, when I was 10 and my brother 8 we were walking home from a dollar matinee at our junkass downtown theatre*. We were around the literal corner from our junkass house when this cop pulls up and yells at us to get in the car. All I can think of is warnings about pedos so I say to my brother, Run! We both take off screaming. I realise the car and uniform would be difficult to fake but again, I was 10.

So the cop stomps the gas and as we run into our junkass yard screaming for our mother he jumps the curb, leaps out of the car, and charges after us. My mother and our pit bull burst out and she's like What the fuck is going on here and my dopey pit bull thinks it's a game. The cop says to my Mum, What the hell are you teaching your kids, to run from the police? And we're screaming, We're being kidnapped! He said what bad kids we were and my Mum fucking verbally ripped his face off and called the station.

Turns out some teenagers were lighting fires in another neighbourhood and this guy shows up in ours, which was as I've said was junkass, and decides we must have been perps. I would like to ask him, did he really think two little kids did it, or did he just have a power thing? We were boring kids. We got in fistfights, but had straight As and shit. But poor. I dunno.

I think of this often, lately, every time I see something like this, only now the story has lots of alternate endings that weren't imaginable to a 10 yr old. It's like a horrible, junkass Choose Your Own Adventure.

*No, we're not the Diaz brothers, but maybe you can guess why they're our favourite fighters.

Sorry for venting. This shit upsets me. That kid is just a fucking kid.

 

[MMAHAWK]

I thought we taught kids not to get in strangers' cars. Cops should support that.

Okay check it, when I was 10 and my brother 8 we were walking home from a dollar matinee at our junkass downtown theatre*. We were around the literal corner from our junkass house when this cop pulls up and yells at us to get in the car. All I can think of is warnings about pedos so I say to my brother, Run! We both take off screaming. I realise the car and uniform would be difficult to fake but again, I was 10.

So the cop stomps the gas and as we run into our junkass yard screaming for our mother he jumps the curb, leaps out of the car, and charges after us. My mother and our pit bull burst out and she's like What the fuck is going on here and my dopey pit bull thinks it's a game. The cop says to my Mum, What the hell are you teaching your kids, to run from the police? And we're screaming, We're being kidnapped! He said what bad kids we were and my Mum fucking verbally ripped his face off and called the station.

Turns out some teenagers were lighting fires in another neighbourhood and this guy shows up in ours, which was as I've said was junkass, and decides we must have been perps. I would like to ask him, did he really think two little kids did it, or did he just have a power thing? We were boring kids. We got in fistfights, but had straight As and shit. But poor. I dunno.

I think of this often, lately, every time I see something like this, only now the story has lots of alternate endings that weren't imaginable to a 10 yr old. It's like a horrible, junkass Choose Your Own Adventure.

*No, we're not the Diaz brothers, but maybe you can guess why they're our favourite fighters.

Sorry for venting. This shit upsets me. That kid is just a fucking kid.

He's not 5. Along with not going with strangers I was taught to respect police and realized the possible consequences of not.

 

[Zeph]

He's not 5. Along with not going with strangers I was taught to respect police and realized the possible consequences of not.

Do you consider tasing people that are being restrained as appropriate consequences?

 

[MMAHAWK]

Do you consider tasing people that are being restrained as appropriate consequences?

If you are fighting the cop yes. The video shows nothing other than a wrestling match ending in a taser. I by no means think there is not shaddy shit happening all the time. However i was raised in a past generation that you took personal responsibility for finding yourself in bad situations and still have the street smarts to walk away un harmed . Id probley be better off staying in the mma forum. I'm starting to feel like angry inch and jettdog have accounts here with 30% of all topics anti police.

 

[FeeO]

He's not 5. Along with not going with strangers I was taught to respect police and realized the possible consequences of not.

Hey, I wasn't taught to disrespect police. I was a bookish and straightlaced person (still am). What happened there was a miscommunication, and given the cop's aggressive and intimidating opening address to us, and that he was an adult endowed with authority, salary and training, I believe he should have been taught better.

In terms of the 13 yr old, he's 13. He has no concept that consequences for him include near immediate tazing. I'm amazed that a grown, weaponed man would lunge for the chance to hurt or scare a kid when he has a chance to just talk to him, leave a lasting positive impression. It's oddly short-range thinking.

 

[MMAHAWK]

Hey, I wasn't taught to disrespect police. I was a bookish and straightlaced person (still am). What happened there was a miscommunication, and given the cop's aggressive and intimidating opening address to us, and that he was an adult endowed with authority, salary and training, I believe he should have been taught better.

In terms of the 13 yr old, he's 13. He has no concept that consequences for him include near immediate tazing. I'm amazed that a grown, weaponed man would lunge for the chance to hurt or scare a kid when he has a chance to just talk to him, leave a lasting positive impression. It's oddly short-range thinking.

I don't disagree but what if prior to taping he asked the kid twice to not skateboard and the kid told him to screw off. Would that make a difference.
Maybe 13 year olds now a days not knowing consequences is a bigger problem. If with all the anti cop news they are not catching on or being taught how to interact that is a problem. In 2 more years he will be driving. Does he need a couple head on collisions to learn not to cross the yellow line.

 

[MMAHAWK]

Hey, I wasn't taught to disrespect police. I was a bookish and straightlaced person (still am). What happened there was a miscommunication, and given the cop's aggressive and intimidating opening address to us, and that he was an adult endowed with authority, salary and training, I believe he should have been taught better.

In terms of the 13 yr old, he's 13. He has no concept that consequences for him include near immediate tazing. I'm amazed that a grown, weaponed man would lunge for the chance to hurt or scare a kid when he has a chance to just talk to him, leave a lasting positive impression. It's oddly short-range thinking.

And I was referring to the 13 year old not how you were raised.

 

[Zeph]

If you are fighting the cop yes. The video shows nothing other than a wrestling match ending in a taser. I by no means think there is not shaddy shit happening all the time. However i was raised in a past generation that you took personal responsibility for finding yourself in bad situations and still have the street smarts to walk away un harmed . Id probley be better off staying in the mma forum. I'm starting to feel like angry inch and jettdog have accounts here with 30% of all topics anti police.

If the cop couldn't restrain a 13 year old kid without a taser, then he is in the wrong job. And that kid didn't seem to be fighting him as he had his arm round his neck. Instead of reaching for his taser, he could have reached for his cuffs.

 

[MMAHAWK]

If the cop couldn't restrain a 13 year old kid without a taser, then he is in the wrong job. And that kid didn't seem to be fighting him as he had his arm round his neck. Instead of reaching for his taser, he could have reached for his cuffs.

Seems like the kid is trying to wrestle him from what I see. I don't necessarily disagree with you at all. I just need more context to want to hang someone.

 

[FeeO]

And I was referring to the 13 year old not how you were raised.

Cool, dude. I'll put down my Chris Weidman voodoo doll.

Just kidding, I like Chris

 

[MMAHAWK]

If the cop couldn't restrain a 13 year old kid without a taser, then he is in the wrong job. And that kid didn't seem to be fighting him as he had his arm round his neck. Instead of reaching for his taser, he could have reached for his cuffs.

And I agree all cops should look like roided sapp.

 

[Zeph]

And I agree all cops should look like roided sapp.

You don't need to Arnie to out muscle a 13 year old.

 

[MMAHAWK]

You don't need to Arnie to out muscle a 13 year old.

I believe many of these confrontations would never happen. To many cops are fat slobs or 140lb men. They make these people feel like they "could take them". I don't think Michael brown charges 1996 Mark Coleman or mark Kerr. Society has taken the " how dare you disrespect me" attitude. That goes for everyone including cops. As long as that is an accepted attitude the problem will only get worse.

 

[MMAHAWK]

This is the content I prefer to discuss off topic