12-year-old tased by police officer

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by sigmadiva

Should a 12 year old child get tased? No

Should a 12 year old child get tased by the police? Depends.

I'm not sure I follow -- how can it depend for the police if a 12-year-old child shouldn't get tased to begin with?

There are so many variables to this situation, some we know, some we don't know, that to try to simplify it to one question is absurd.

Not absurd at all. Courts do it all the time, deciding when and under what circumstances certain offensive or defensive measures can be taken. Ditto police departments, which set forth policies providing officers with parameters as to when they can and can't do what.

Sure, there will always be the need to apply those parameters to specific situations and "in the moment." But the parameters are still there, and I think that's the question posed by this thread: Not was this specific officer in the right or in the wrong, but what should the parameters be?