Montgomery Alabama Student Tasered After Attacking Administrator
February 29, 2008I am not in favor of abuse and I generally am against any form of tasering by police officers (except in extreme cases). However, a junior high school student in Alabama was tasered on yesterday and I actually agree 100% with the officer’s decision.
In a world where respect for adults and authority are a thing of the past, this student had the gall to attack an administrator and stayed on top of that administrator even after police arrived.
An officer with the Montgomery Police Department shocked a middle school student with a stun gun Thursday after the student got into an altercation with a school administrator.
A seventh-grade pupil at Brewbaker Junior High School “got into it” with a school official, causing a police officer assigned to the school’s security detail to feel it was necessary to use a Taser (stun-gun) on him before the situation escalated, said Tom Salter, Montgomery Public Schools spokesman.
The incident occurred at 2:50 p.m. when an MPD officer assigned to provide security at Brewbaker responded to a call of a fight in the school’s office, said Capt. Huey Thornton, a police spokesman.
“Our officer found a 13-year-old male, who was big for his age, fighting a school administrator on the floor and was actually on top of the man,” Thornton said.
He said the student would not respond to the police officer’s repeated commands to stop fighting and get off the school official, and the officer was forced to used a Taser on him to stop the fight.
Hopefully this little thug will be expelled from that school. What on earth is this world coming to? And parents are being told not to even discipline their own children without fear of arrest? Pu-leeze!
February 29th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Believe it or not Lynn, someone is reading the same article stating that the parents of the child should sue the school and the police dept! I also agree with the use of it here.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Can we see a clip of the incident. YouTube if you will.
February 29th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I guess home training doesn’t exist anymore. This is just like that fresh behind little girl in Florida who terrorized her teacher and punched a school administrator and all of black America was up in arms about her being handcuffed in order to restrain her. I notice after she appeared on the TV show, “A Current Affair” with Rev. Jesse Jackson and her mother and rudely spoke to Rev. Jackson on the air and continued to do so, that no one speaks about her anymore.
All of the black child psychologists who initially ran to this child’s defense never seemed to take into consideration that as a result of this type of behavior, the school can legally require this child to undergo psychiatric and psychological testing. This is how many kids wind up on ADHD medication, Ritalin and and all types of anti-depressants. The diagnosis is also used to classify them and place them in special education. Parents need to wake up.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Now you know that those parents will be raising a ruckus about how wrong the police are for tasing poor little johnny, who is deaf in one ear and can’t hear out the other, which is of course why he didn’t hear the cop tell him to stop!!
The parents will try to sue the school, the teacher, the police department and the entire city.