Maybe it’s simply how the BBC have chosen to write the comments but I’d suggest that the organisations expressing concern about this incident or the use of Taser on kids should be more concerned about how and why people this young find themselves using/carrying knives
Chavvy little shit
Poor kid though, I can only imagine we all have the same mental image of the boys parents.
Ultimately this person is going to present a danger to the public and to emergency services for the next 50 years, yes they’re a child now but how many members of the public have to be harmed before this individual is inevitably incarcerated?
>The officers can be heard asking him to put down the knife and “do the right thing” but the boy backs away from them.
One officer asks him: “What do you want do with the knife?”
But the child continues to retreat and tells them to “stay back”.
The police officer with the stun gun then discharges the weapon.
For the context of why it was used.
The kid was waving around a knife, and when told to put it down he responded “I’m live streaming” and continued to threaten police with it. The idiot got what was coming to him, there’s no safe way to tackle someone waving a knife at you so it was either going to be a taser or pepper spray. And pepper spray is still significantly more risky to the police because there’s no guarantee you drop the knife.
I don’t think it matters how old you are, start waving a knife about and it’s taser time.
When I see knife and taser in the same sentence my first thought is well done to the officers for using the lesser option. They would be justified in using deadly force here as he was posing a deadly threat but they still found a way to come out with effectively no one harmed
How did the kid get the knife and why did he think this was a good idea in the first place?
*”Human rights bodies, including the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, have long called on Scotland to ban the use of Tasers on children, highlighting the serious risk of physical and psychological harm such weapons pose.”*
No thoughts given to the risk of physical and psychological harm this rat could inflict on innocent people swinging a knife around in public though?
Kid raised a knife at a police officer, gets tasered.
I’m not sure I’m understanding why this is newsworthy.
Old enough to do the crime, old enough to receive the punishment.
An 11 year old with a knife can still kill someone, better to be safe than sorry.
>Their use on children, however, is controversial, and the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called for a ban.
Well sure, as long as they’re willing to take responsibility when an innocent person inevitably gets injured or killed when talking someone down or physically restraining doesn’t work.
Maybe they can send in a letter of apology to the family of someone who gets stabbed to death “We’re very sorry that your loved one passed away. However, their sacrifice wasn’t in vain. Thanks to their brave sacrifice, their murderer wasn’t tasered and was free to kill them.”
>highlighting the serious risk of physical and psychological harm such weapons pose.
What about the serious risk of harm to innocent nearby civilians or the officers? Out of them and the knife wielding kid, the kid falls to the bottom in terms of how much I care about their wellbeing. Civilians > Officers > Person trying to stab someone
Fuckin deserved it too. If he’d stabbed someone they’d be doing another piece about knife crime.
Got to the find out stage young.
The kid needs help and I hope they get it, otherwise they are unlikely to change their behaviour and risk being an even bigger danger in the future. An eleven year old with a knife can be highly unpredictable and a kid that age is above the age of criminal responsibility, so knows what they are doing when challenged by the police over their behaviour. Tasering them would have been a last resort from the officers and there will be an investigation over whether it was warranted or not, same with every use of a taser. It’s not a nice thing to have happened but I doubt the officer was getting trigger happy at the same time either.
When you think of all that must have led up to this it is fucking depressing. Whatever the details are, for an 11 year old boy to be doing that, so much has gone so wrong. And I bet the officer in question will have some moments. Having to taser a knife wielding 11 year old, bet that wasn’t on his “things I’d hope to do as a police officer” list.
Sounds like a fuck around and find out situation. This could of ended much, much worse.
Twat was threatening people with a knife, justified.
Hopefully it knocks some sense into the bellend into thinking twice about looking hard online
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Maybe it’s simply how the BBC have chosen to write the comments but I’d suggest that the organisations expressing concern about this incident or the use of Taser on kids should be more concerned about how and why people this young find themselves using/carrying knives
Chavvy little shit
Poor kid though, I can only imagine we all have the same mental image of the boys parents.
Ultimately this person is going to present a danger to the public and to emergency services for the next 50 years, yes they’re a child now but how many members of the public have to be harmed before this individual is inevitably incarcerated?
>The officers can be heard asking him to put down the knife and “do the right thing” but the boy backs away from them.
One officer asks him: “What do you want do with the knife?”
But the child continues to retreat and tells them to “stay back”.
The police officer with the stun gun then discharges the weapon.
For the context of why it was used.
The kid was waving around a knife, and when told to put it down he responded “I’m live streaming” and continued to threaten police with it. The idiot got what was coming to him, there’s no safe way to tackle someone waving a knife at you so it was either going to be a taser or pepper spray. And pepper spray is still significantly more risky to the police because there’s no guarantee you drop the knife.
I don’t think it matters how old you are, start waving a knife about and it’s taser time.
When I see knife and taser in the same sentence my first thought is well done to the officers for using the lesser option. They would be justified in using deadly force here as he was posing a deadly threat but they still found a way to come out with effectively no one harmed
How did the kid get the knife and why did he think this was a good idea in the first place?
*”Human rights bodies, including the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, have long called on Scotland to ban the use of Tasers on children, highlighting the serious risk of physical and psychological harm such weapons pose.”*
No thoughts given to the risk of physical and psychological harm this rat could inflict on innocent people swinging a knife around in public though?
Kid raised a knife at a police officer, gets tasered.
I’m not sure I’m understanding why this is newsworthy.
Old enough to do the crime, old enough to receive the punishment.
An 11 year old with a knife can still kill someone, better to be safe than sorry.
>Their use on children, however, is controversial, and the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called for a ban.
Well sure, as long as they’re willing to take responsibility when an innocent person inevitably gets injured or killed when talking someone down or physically restraining doesn’t work.
Maybe they can send in a letter of apology to the family of someone who gets stabbed to death “We’re very sorry that your loved one passed away. However, their sacrifice wasn’t in vain. Thanks to their brave sacrifice, their murderer wasn’t tasered and was free to kill them.”
>highlighting the serious risk of physical and psychological harm such weapons pose.
What about the serious risk of harm to innocent nearby civilians or the officers? Out of them and the knife wielding kid, the kid falls to the bottom in terms of how much I care about their wellbeing. Civilians > Officers > Person trying to stab someone
Fuckin deserved it too. If he’d stabbed someone they’d be doing another piece about knife crime.
Got to the find out stage young.
The kid needs help and I hope they get it, otherwise they are unlikely to change their behaviour and risk being an even bigger danger in the future. An eleven year old with a knife can be highly unpredictable and a kid that age is above the age of criminal responsibility, so knows what they are doing when challenged by the police over their behaviour. Tasering them would have been a last resort from the officers and there will be an investigation over whether it was warranted or not, same with every use of a taser. It’s not a nice thing to have happened but I doubt the officer was getting trigger happy at the same time either.
When you think of all that must have led up to this it is fucking depressing. Whatever the details are, for an 11 year old boy to be doing that, so much has gone so wrong. And I bet the officer in question will have some moments. Having to taser a knife wielding 11 year old, bet that wasn’t on his “things I’d hope to do as a police officer” list.
Sounds like a fuck around and find out situation. This could of ended much, much worse.
Twat was threatening people with a knife, justified.
Hopefully it knocks some sense into the bellend into thinking twice about looking hard online