UNITED STATES: Miami police stun-gun children

November 24, 2004
Issue 
607

For the second time in a fortnight, the Miami Dade police have admitted that a stun-gun had been used against a child. In the first incident, on October 20, a six-year-old boy holding a shard of glass was stunned with a Taser. Then, on November 10, police used 50,000 volts to immobilise a 12-year-old girl fleeing police after being caught truanting. The police director has defended the new police policy of widely distributing tasers and allowing officers to use them to apprehend someone.

From Green Left Weekly, November 24, 2004.
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