Taze Our Daughters and Sons At Work Day: Police Officer Fired After Shocking Children with 50,000 Volt Taser

In Carrabelle, Florida, Sgt. Walter Schmidt at the Franklin Correction Institution had a novel idea for entertaining kids on a “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” tour. He shocked kids with 50,000 volts from his taser.

Schmidt says that he had the permission of the parents, which leads one to wonder why child abuse charges were not brought. I did not know that parents had the option of using a taser on children so long as it was fun. Schmidt has been fired.

Of course, Schmidt is not the first officer or the first parent to view tasers as a fun distraction, here and here and here and here.

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