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Ohio Police Tasers 9 yo Taser use KO’s village policeMount Sterling suspends chief after 9-year-old was zappedMOUNT STERLING, Ohio — A village police officer shocked a 9-year-old boy with a Taser this week, prompting a shutdown of the entire force.Long-embattled Police Chief Mike McCoy has been suspended, and officers who were being used on a part-time basis are no longer working, Council President Lowell Anderson said. McCoy didn’t tell village officials after the Tuesday incident, and that prompted the suspension, Anderson said. Village Administrator Joe Johnson, in violation of state open-records laws, refused to release the report on what the village is calling “an incident involving use of force.” Mayor Charlie Neff said in a statement only that the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has been asked to investigate. Madison County Prosecutor Steve Pronai, however, said police were called to an apartment on S. Market Street in the Madison County village because Michelle Perry said her son, Jared, wouldn’t go to school. From there, Pronai said he doesn’t know much about it except that the situation escalated and Officer Scott O’Neil used a Taser on the boy. Anderson said village officials didn’t find out about the incident until late Wednesday night or early Thursday. McCoy’s cellphone number has been disconnected or changed, and he could not be reached for comment. A message left with a woman who answered the phone at O’Neil’s home was not returned. Perry could not be reached for comment. Neighbors of the apartment where the incident took place said there have been issues with the 9-year-old, who is large for his age. Two neighbors said Jared’s father, and not his mother, lives at the S. Market Street address, but he has been hospitalized because he is gravely ill and disabled. None of the neighbors would give their names because they said they didn’t want to get involved. All, however, said the father has done the best he can in an untenable situation. None knew details of the Tasering incident first-hand. With the disbanding of the police force, Sheriff Jim Sabin said he has been called to temporarily take over patrol of the village. Sabin said Neff has changed the locks at Village Hall and the sheriff has taken the police department’s weapons and computers to secure them, not because they are part of any investigation. The council will meet on Monday night to decide its next steps concerning McCoy and the rest of the department, Anderson said. The police department has been under fire for some time. Council disbanded it in August, saying the force had been mismanaged and there was not enough money to make payroll. But council members kept McCoy on as chief. Then, private donations allowed some officers to come back part-time in September.
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A nine-year-old? Really? REALLY? | |
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^ Yeah , truly ridiculous that a grown ass man can't control a 9 yo | |
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I know right? | |
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He should've been sacked right away , not just suspended
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People always make excuses for people in charge like that. I've read the same old story for the past 20 years about worrisome people in office... | |
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i bet he was sporting a doughnut belly and was 2 unfit 2 run!!!! mailto:www.iDon'tThinkSo.com.Uranus | |
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Excuse me ma'am, but what kind of response is this? That boy was just a kid.
Maybe you should see how painful it is to get tasered. Mind you, this is a grown man. Imagine a child...
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Um, I'm pretty sure her comment was about the cop, not the kid.
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I certainly hope so.
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just like JustErin said ~ i was talking about the cop not the kid
police use tasers cause they cant be bothered apprehending a person or r 2 lazy or unfit to run after them
there was a thread not long ago where the girl suffered brain damage and the cop was only a short distance away from her, he just could not run so he tasered her
[Edited 3/12/12 4:38am] mailto:www.iDon'tThinkSo.com.Uranus | |
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Madam, my apologies.
And yeah, tasers are inhumane. There was a Polish immigrant tasered to death at the Vancouver airport a few years ago. I swear..with power comes corruption.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/06/17/bc-dziekanski-braidwood-report.html The salvation of man is through love and in love. - Dr. V. Frankl
"When you close your heart, you close your mind." - Michael Jackson (Man In The Mirror) "I don't need anger management, I need people to stop pissing me off" | |
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Unfukinbelievable.
...just... By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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This is the kind of shit that starts riots.
Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
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Tasers are obviously better than handguns, but that has to be part of why they are becoming an issue.
They are being used for situations that are not life threatening, and in fact, there's probably no need for physical confrontation of any kind most of the time they are used (otherwise they'd use the gun)
Sort of like those high speed chases where innocent people were dying or getting hurt, when the person being chased might not have even been a danger to anyone, but they simply chose to run for some reason. My Legacy
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