A San Diego sheriff’s deputy has been caught on video tasing and wrestling a 12-year-old boy named Joshua in a parking lot. After the terrible incident, the boy was arrested for resisting arrest and assaulting an officer.
The sheriff has argued that the boy had attacked the cop and the use of force was justified. Witnesses who recorded the event told Filming Cops, that the deputy had punched the boy in the face before they began filming.
Sheriff Bill Gore, defended the deputy’s actions at a press conference, saying the boy was a runaway, and that Deputy Jeffery Banks was merely trying to bring him home to his mother.
“When you see the video, the juvenile is struggling on the ground. He’s not obeying commands. He’s wrestling with the deputy,” the sheriff said, adding that the deputy only used a Taser after the out-of-control juvenile bit his forearm, and that the use of the Taser “caused minimal damage to the suspect.”
Jan Caldwell, spokeswoman for the San Diego County sheriff’s department, said the deputy tried to take the boy home, and only used force when Joshua “refused, gave him attitude, and bit the deputy on the hand during the confrontation.”
“The deputy reached out to him at that point and he became combative and assaultive. He had his hands in his waistband part of the time so we didn’t know if he had a weapon or a knife or a gun,” said Caldwell.
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This is bloody disgusting, when will these PIGS get dealt with properly, clearly abuse of a child with the protection of the law behind him, a 13 year old should never be tased or handled that way. what kind of a pussy bitch ass cop cant restrain a 13 year old with his hands, and no not a fucking choke hold either. hes 13, just overpower him, fucking retards, fuck AMERICA
Funny thing is you guys are prob all ignorant to the use of force, he clearly was resisting, he had no reason to resist at all. He may be thirteen but when a person starts flaring and throwing his whole body weight around there is certain things an officer can do to nuetralize the resisting suspect without causing bodily injury. The officer did well.
so, we can add san diego to the list of places where cops are likely to attack unarmed children ? got it.
Mike you should work for Fox News they need more ppl like you
Fuck off mike, what do you have to say about the officer holding the kid down in a fucking headlock choking him and on top of that tazing him twice??? Are you fucking for real mike??? I hope the same thing happens to one of your family members and see if tou give the same answer as here.
Asshole
You’re an idiot. When I was 13, I knew better than to resist the police like, of course, I wouldn’t have done anything to get in trouble like that in the first place. Go fuck yourself you fucking twat. I understand that while your sitting at home in your moms basement smoking weed and complaining about the “system” keeping you down that you hate your pathetic stupid life. One day your mom will be too old for that walmart money to keep coming in, and you’ll have to work to get your dream job at burger king, or maybe start selling drugs instead of buying them.
Agreed.