Posted on 10/30/2012 9:32:02 PM PDT by Altariel
SANTA FE, N.M. (CN) - A New Mexico policeman Tasered a 10-year-old child on a playground because the boy refused to clean his patrol car, the boy claims in court. Guardian ad litem Rachel Higgins sued the New Mexico Department of Public Safety and Motor Transportation Police Officer Chris Webb on behalf of the child, in Santa Fe County Court. Higgins claims Webb used his Taser on the boy, R.D., during a May 4 "career day" visit to Tularosa New Mexico Intermediate School. "Defendant Webb asked the boy, R.D., in a group of boys, who would like to clean his patrol unit," the complaint states. "A number of boys said that they would. R.D., joking, said that he did not want to clean the patrol unit. "Defendant Webb responded by pointing his Taser at R.D. and saying, 'Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.'" Webb then shot "two barbs into R.D.'s chest," the complaint states. "Both barbs penetrated the boy's shirt, causing the device to deliver 50,000 volts into the boy's body. "Defendant Webb pulled the barbs out [of] the boy's chest, causing scarring where the barbs had entered the boy's skin that look like cigarette burns on the boy's chest. "The boy, who weighed less than 100 lbs., blacked out. "Instead of calling emergency medical personnel, Officer Webb pulled out the barbs and took the boy to the school principal's office," the complaint states. Higgins says the Tasing gave the boy post-traumatic stress syndrome, and that "The boy, R.D., has woken up in the middle of the night holding his chest, afraid he is never going to wake up again." She adds: "No reasonable officer confronting a situation where the need for force is at its lowest, on a playground with elementary age children, would have deployed the Taser in so reckless a manner as to cause physical and psychological injury." She seeks punitive damages for the boy for battery, failure to render emergency medical care, excessive force, unreasonable seizure, and negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention. Higgins and R.D. are represented by the Kennedy Law Firm, of Albuquerque.
some people just need killing...
I find this very hard to believe.
No pics of the perp?
Smoking Gun usually manages to have that...
If you think city “rent a cops” are bad, just think of all the wonderful government training and selection process of the TSA, and yeah maybe Homeland security agents will respect the constitution...
City Cops in most Cities are nothing more than fancy Mall Security....
I would rather be pulled over by a county sheriff’s car than ANY city cop.
We need more elected Sheriffs and less City Police Commissioners that are picked by corrupt city Mayors. (usually in liberal enclaves)
NM Ping.
Aren’t you glad we don’t give them guns... oh, wait.
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It must be true because you just couldn’t make this up. I can hardly believe it could even happen under any circumstance.
It must be true because you just couldn’t make this up. I can hardly believe it could even happen under any circumstance.
This in no way new. It isn’t that long ago a cop was videotaped telling people that “this is not America anymore” to shut them up.
Yeah it was an “accident”.
Officer Does Not Like anti-Obama Poster: “It ain’t [America] no more, OK?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIKPKjl0-pg
This guy should expect to get fired and should expect to get sued.
I guess the cops boot were already clean and didn’t need licking?
are we forcing children to work for government agencies now?
It’s the taxpayers who will be sued and pay big bucks, dang taxpayers with tasers
If your words don’t phase’m then you can tase’m.
When she asked for a lawyer, he said, we don't do that around here.
Prosecutor dropped the charges and expunged the record. Said that she should have never been arrested to begin with. Cop just got mad cause he thought she wasn't respectful enough.
If he is this careless with taser- wonder how long before he accidentally kills a citizen with the real gun.
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