12-year-old tased by police officer

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Originally Posted by christiangirl

2. The girl had 2 taser marks--one on her chest and one on her stomach. What exactly was she doing that she needed to be tased twice?

When you deploy a taser, two prongs shoot out of it about 6-12 inches apart. It's used to create an "arc" to better subdue a subject. Tasers can work with just one contact point, but two are ideal. As someone who has been pepper sprayed, tased, hit with a baton, hit with pepper-ball launchers and generally slapped around I will say that being tased is the least miserable of all less than lethal options police have available. Yeah, it hurts for 5 SECONDS but once that initial charge goes through the average person is good to go. Typically no negative after effects either as opposed to when you pepper spray or baton someone.

This incident is going to be investigated and until some official deems that this officer used excessive force I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and not second guess or criticize based solely on the age of the subject .