Posted on 03/16/2024 5:33:53 PM PDT by Morgana
An 11-year-old boy in Florida who was wielding a butcher knife and threatening to kill himself and his sister during a tantrum over a video game has been tasered by officers.
Wesley Hinton began getting angry following the dispute and grabbed a blade before his 10-year-old sister phoned 911 during the incident on January 20.
Deputies from the Broward Sheriff’s Office arrived on the scene and say Wesley ran the knife over parts of his body including his wrists, stomach and held it at his chest.
Surveillance footage shows deputies pleading with him to drop the weapon for at least 30 minutes before he appeared to reach for it again and was tasered.
His mother Samantha Hinton claims he has struggled to function since the incident and he said he is traumatized to this day.
Video from the incident shows Wesley holding a large butcher knife in his hand.
Deputies attempt to get him to drop it and he lays it down momentarily before he appears to pick it back up and he is tasered.
'It looked like I tried to grab it again, but I was about to do this and then — shot,' Wesley told WTVJ.
'The juvenile male, according to deputy, continued to reiterate he had intentions to harm himself,' a Broward Sheriff’s Office spokesman said.
'And at some point the deputy said he ran that large knife over parts of his body, stomach and wrist and chest.
'Deputies utilized their training and were able to save that juvenile life and also prevent injury to anyone else.'
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But since we have parents that refuse to discipline the cops have to do it for them
Yea then they complain the cops went too far! I say BS. Give the kid an ass beating now before he hurts someone.
Since there was no teacher to disarm the kid, or social worker to convince the kid to put down the knife, I say it was a good taser.
Kid will think twice before killing himself and his sister, next time.
Notice — stepdad
It takes years of training to use a highly complex taser.
al·leg·ed·ly
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adverb
used to convey that something is claimed to be the case or have taken place,
although there is no proof.
Media yacking heads must get paid extra when they use 4 or more syllable words regardless of its appropriateness.
Sounds like something that would happen to Cartman, from South Park.
I must be an underachiever.
I don’t think I ever had a tantrum that lasted over ten minutes
Ha.
Actually I first thought it was a Leave It To Beaver plot but then I thought no, maybe Criminal Minds. /S
Somber, dead eyes looking children on a killing spree are on a lot of shows. And in real life.
Worst was Henry Messner who killed many at age 10 and fooled naive adults into not realizing he was a sociopath spree killer. Even drowned the family dog after pushing his little sister down a flight of stairs. At age 18 he was declared cured by a psychiatrist and went on a worse killing spree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ5ojtuM8GI
LOL. You made me recall a great Jim Carrey line from "Batman Forever":
"Don't kill him! If you kill him he won't learn nothin'."
Kid got off lucky. I want to know what video game he was infatuated with.
It's you, Mom. Raise him better and he won't act like that in the first place.
The police needed to do something. The kid was a danger.
...and repeat as necessary.
No trouble finding his name and picture on google
He’s White, is why.
Sadly.
he was allegedly tasered
A young man our daughters age, moved to FL with his parents. He committed suicide by cop in a similar situation, extremely sad. Glad this incident ended without bodily harm to anyone.
That alleged knife looked very real.
“I don’t think I ever had a tantrum that lasted over ten minutes”
I believe that if I, or any of my siblings, ever had a tantrum that lasted over 15 seconds, we’d have been sent to the middle of next week. And that would’ve been the last tantrum ever.
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