A 12-year-old autistic boy was shot with a police stun gun outside Hawthorne middle school. It all started when the boy, that’s also an African American, didn’t want to line up for his photograph during a photo day at school. He started running around the school with a school’s security guard chasing him and trying to rush and detain him. Police lieutenant Michael Ishii said that the boy assaulted a security guard and kicked a police officer. The school called the boy’s family, but when his sister wanted to interrupt she was pushed back by the police, though they claimed that she spoke to him and couldn’t calm him down, so they decided to shoot him with a 50 000 volt Taser. "To watch my brother shaking on the ground, it was very traumatic," the sister said. "He wasn't the same for days afterward." The boy urinated himself and was immediately taken to a medical center to have two electrode darts removed from his back. The issue of using Tasers on children has become controversial in recent years and more research is needed to determine the health effects of shocking small children, still the Hawthorne police chose to use it on the autistic boy. The attorney said that if the boy successfully completes a counseling program, a criminal case will not be filed against him.Monday, 9 March 2009
A 12-year-old autistic boy got tased for making trouble at school
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A 12-year-old autistic boy was shot with a police stun gun outside Hawthorne middle school. It all started when the boy, that’s also an African American, didn’t want to line up for his photograph during a photo day at school. He started running around the school with a school’s security guard chasing him and trying to rush and detain him. Police lieutenant Michael Ishii said that the boy assaulted a security guard and kicked a police officer. The school called the boy’s family, but when his sister wanted to interrupt she was pushed back by the police, though they claimed that she spoke to him and couldn’t calm him down, so they decided to shoot him with a 50 000 volt Taser. "To watch my brother shaking on the ground, it was very traumatic," the sister said. "He wasn't the same for days afterward." The boy urinated himself and was immediately taken to a medical center to have two electrode darts removed from his back. The issue of using Tasers on children has become controversial in recent years and more research is needed to determine the health effects of shocking small children, still the Hawthorne police chose to use it on the autistic boy. The attorney said that if the boy successfully completes a counseling program, a criminal case will not be filed against him.
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THIS IS JUST DOWNRIGHT RETARTED. Why wud u use 50000 volts on a minor. atleast like put it on 200 volts
True, but maybe a better choice of words...
this is a bunch of bull he should have atleast put at a level on which it wouldnt nearly kill him and he just didnt want to take a picture you cant blame him for that.
just to respond to other comments:
tasers usually only have one setting
50k volts is low
Tasers are supposed to be tools to prevent damage to people.
Tackling a frenzied adolescent is more dangerous than a tense adolescent falling down by him/herself.
The probability is that there will be no lasting harm to the child, so the use is warranted for the prevention of injury. I don't condone it off the bat, but I might have done the same with the same training in the same situation. Personally I would not want to be electrocuted, but fear mongering your expectations of grievous injury are akin to the fear mongering surrounding vaccines, and quite frankly show an inability for a chunk of americans to think beyond emotions or consider multiple perspectives.
I think your statement proves that you are unopen to the idea of police violent you consider the police all just and all knowing like a religious fanatic considers god. how quaint that police violence is real.
you will say that people are close minded when ever they do not agree to your view yet even when you are wrong you will never see yourself as closed minded when you do not agree to other peoples view.
what an odd response, perhaps my late night punctuation led you to believe I had a strong emotional response devoid of thought and full of motive. There is nothing above in my previous post which proves anything, it is all opinion, and as a lone opinion late at night you couldn't possibly infer a stereotype of my everyday thoughts or opinions. I certainly do believe police violence is real, I live in chicago, and the police here have a terrible history with current violence common as well. Your last statement was really difficult to read, but your accusing me of being a hypocrite with respect to open mindedness which can only be from your inference that I believe fear mongering is the root of the problem while not admitting police brutalize people. Just to set you straight a bit, there is nothing above which says I don't believe that police illegally harm people, neither do I attribute fear mongering to a majority of the ill will towards police. What I do disagree with, and potentially attribute fear mongering to, is an inaccurate view of the use of tasers which if published data is reliable (and I have not audited it, but cannot go beyond healthy skepticism without reading), then it is sensible to assume that the healthiest solution to many situations is to disable dangerous people from harming themselves or others. I think that fear drives many reactions to those who view this because it is really not pretty to see someone lose control of their body in what appears to be (and probably is) agonizing pain. Through pain is temporary and I would gladly take pain over injury.
Please use a bit of critical thought, your emotion driven rage responses are difficult to read and insensible.
Nice to see we can all express ourselves here. What about the 12 year old autistic boy who hasnt got a voice to express what its like to live in a society barbaric enough to torture him.
I would count him lucky in that he doesn't have any social obligation for communication. Where the rest of us have the need for expression where all perspectives implicit/explicit therein apparently is equally appreciated in a universally relativistic world, and thereby completely meaningless. I would rather say, screw all of your expressions because mine is right, and the lot of you are mud dwelling fringe people... He has a free ride in another respect where many people emulate this and sometimes become from want and experience. All people are tortured if you allow yourself to dwell on the negative, who is to say whether the autistic are/aren't able to make the best out of what is had.
As an autistic victim of police brutality myself and a neurodiversity advocate, I can safely say that this article rekindles my determination to put an end to this kind of behavior. We are sick of being beaten, handcufed, and tased.
If the police had to jump on him and fight him, there would be more outrage. 5 seconds of pain without injuries is better than a busted lip or broken arm.
Don't call the police if you don't like the response.
Yo Bro,
WHen your posting anonymously you don't need to defend your argument especially when they get it wrong. Ignore them
Teachers lie about their students in order to avoid doing their jobs, they hear about how overpaid teachers are, and how little work they do, and then decide that it's easy living.
yes officer, you already did that, remember.
wtf it was a 12 year old boy... you can restrain him wit out the tazer
so, ahhh, why taze, why tackle why do anything to aggressively apprehend a kid that just ran away from a school picture? let him run around, chase him for a while, call in the parents, then have the talk in the principal's office. the school has a security guard, and they had to escalate it to the police? this is absurd. i remember a troubled 12yr old ran away from our middle school during lunch. i watched him from the cafeteria window as the vice principal chased him about a block down the road before returning empty-handed. the kid was in school the next day. i don't know the rest, but geez, if the kid gets tazed that counts as resisting arrest, he is a 12yr old autistic boy. give me a break.
First of all, did this happened in the United States. If it did people all around the world knows what a race conscious society the U.S. is. Now, "The attorney said that if the boy successfully completes a counseling program, a criminal case will not be filed against him." Please explain to me why this 12 year old autistic boy has to complete a counselling program and then to say a criminal case will not be files against him.How fucking inhuman this act is, how fucking stupid. What the fuck is wrong with this attorney. Maybe someone should explain the mind of a 12 year old autistic person.
I just don't understand the need to taze a mentally handicapped boy. Okay, so he kicked the police officer. If he was close enough to kick then he was close enough to grab and restrain. It just seems like when ever there is a confrontation, regardless of the circumstances, the police escalate the situation. If the child, and he is a child, had risen from that electric torture and run around some more, would the police have taken the initiative to escalate the situation further and shot him?
As for the anonymous person who said: "That little fucktard of a kid. Why the fuck would he kick a police officer.
He deserved to be taserd.
He learned his fucking lesson.
They should of put it on 100K volts.
Then he'l learn his lesson"
I hope one day that you or someone you love aren't incapacitated or handicapped in some way and 'require' the torturous lesson this child received. I suspect if that happened to you or your own, you would be right up at city hall asking for monetary redress of your grievances.
There is no defense for this police officer. 12yr.old boy, who's autistic. What did the police have before tasers. If he can't subdue a 12yr old boy he has no business being a police officer. Because he didn't want his picture taking he gets tased. Who ever thinks 50,000 volts is not bad should have his head examined. And for anybody who thinks that this kid won't remember and have no problem with this is an idiot. Having police officers in the family I have first hand knowledge on how officer's think. They have the blue wall of silence, and I can tell you, any chance they can tase someone, to see them flop like a fish and laugh about at the precinct with other cops. And all the cops have to say is I feared for my life. If our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were using tasers people in this country would be up in arms calling our sodiers terrorists. But it's ok for a cop to tase an autistic child. I hope the cop has a family and his kids get tased.
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