A New Mexico policeman is accused in a new lawsuit of tasering a 10-year-old child on a playground after the boy refused to clean his patrol car. The lawsuit has been filed by a guardian ad litem, Rachel Higgins, and accuses New Mexico Department of Public Safety and Motor Transportation Police Officer Chris Webb of the battery on the child.
Higgins alleges that Webb visited the boy’s school as part of a May 4 “career day” visit to Tularosa New Mexico Intermediate School. The complaint alleges:
“Defendant Webb asked the boy, R.D., in a group of boys, who would like to clean his patrol unit. A number of boys said that they would. R.D., joking, said that he did not want to clean the patrol unit.
Defendant Webb responded by pointing his Taser at R.D. and saying, ‘Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.'”
The Complaint says that Webb then shot “two barbs into R.D.’s chest” delivering 50,000 volts to the boy who weighed less than 100 lbs. “Defendant Webb pulled the barbs out [of] the boy’s chest, causing scarring where the barbs had entered the boy’s skin that look like cigarette burns on the boy’s chest. . . . Instead of calling emergency medical personnel, Officer Webb pulled out the barbs and took the boy to the school principal’s office.”
The lawsuit is seeking punitive damages for battery, failure to render emergency medical care, excessive force, unreasonable seizure, and negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention.
News reports indicate that the officer insisted that his taser went off accidentally. However, while this would undermine criminal charges, the question remains of the disciplining of the officer who drew a weapon as a joke on a child. The attorneys submitted a letter from an expert finding no likely malfunctioning of the weapon.
Source: CBS and Courthouse
What would be appropriate punishment?
(1) Allow the boy, RD, to taser the pig multiple times, as well as use the pig’s pepper spray.
(2) Ten years mprisonment at a minimum, and the pig be labelled a child abuser and a corrupt pig, then put in general population with all convicts knowing what he did. He probably wouldn’t last one year.
Children must learn respect….. And what better way than using a taser…. Spare the taser use the rod… Police issued of course…..
True to form, kid get scars and PTSD, the cop gets 3 days off.
“Following the May 4 incident, Webb, who claims he accidentally discharged the Taser, was given only a three-day suspension.”
from Salon.com
We have sooooo many monsters like this running loose within the society: We have New hampshire State lawyers like Jeanne M. kincaid sending porn to a child, and being provided the coverage for such from guess?
The immorality, and debauchery does not get any worse: But as long as the judiciary continues to sponsor corruption, and uses the citizens (many of them government workers under subtle threat of job loss) more of this will continue
This is a great read for those of you who think that tazers aren’t dangerous. I WAS going to say that it’s fools like this who give LEOs a bad name. However, this now seems to be the rule rather than the exception.
The original quote filed on the comments column, had the notation that the child was knocked unconscious and in a coma . Despite that, emergency services was not called and the officer bore the child’s body to the principal’s office.
Unconscious. Tough ten year olds? Could have been a dead ten year old.
I am still medieval. Ten tazering for misuse thereof.
Twenty more for using it on an unarmed child.
How do they pick these idiots pick the ones who do Career Day.
Kids at ten years are either seeing everybody as a hero, or seeing them as “stupid” adults.
Frankly,
Those ten year olds are tough little bast**ds. The officer was defending his life and will be commended for his not using deadly force.
I’m pretty sure it looked like that little sht was pulling a gun! I’m sure the officer was backed into a corner and had no way out!
Anyone else here white & old enough to remember being told “Policemen are your friend”?
How about assault and battery charges and loss of his job.
I’d like to have read that the adults who witnessed this crime immediately descended upon Mr. Webb, beat him like a rented mule, placed him in his own handcuffs, then placed him under citizen’s arrest. Instead, we’ll read about how the city will settle with the victim for an undisclosed amount, while Mr. Webb, after serving a brief token suspension, resumes his duties.
Nothing to see here, folks, now move along.
Kids injected with fear.
What a great teacher you are not, officer Webb.
Jack Webb would not have approved:
Gotta lose his job for this. Just has to…he could be the nicest guy in the world, but he’s on a barney fife level of incompetence and we just can’t afford incompetent police.
Disgusting story. I have to echo the calls for this officer’s removal. I hope New Mexico and the officer have to dig very deep into their pockets to pay for this atrocious act.
Oh darn, tons of witnesses. How is the “I feared for my life” defense going to work? Not to worry, public sector union will figure it out.
Of course this semi literate moron will not be fired and will probably be complimented by his ignorant and racist felloiw cops.
Bullies with badges. He needs to be arrested (tazered several times in the process), fired, charged with battery and whaterever else applies and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Bears repeating:
‘Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.’
“The Complaint says that Webb then shot “two barbs into R.D.’s chest” delivering 50,000 volts to the boy who weighed less than 100 lbs.”
Great lesson for the kids. Hope the lawsuit turns out to be a better lesson for the police department.
What Blouise said.
This guy is clearly a menace and has zero business wearing a badge. County orange maybe, but not a badge.
Holy shit!