Police Say Tasering 8 Year Old Native American Girl Was Justified

‘The mother of an 8-year-old Native American girl is suing police who maintain that they were justified in using a taser on the child. The family lives in Pierre, South Dakota and belong to the Rosebud Sioux community.

Four police officers decided that this young girl who had a small paring knife was “a danger to herself,” requiring them to taser her.

But her mother says that the officers should have used non-violent means to neutralize the threat they believed the 70-pound girl posed.’
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https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/sd-police-say-tasing-8-year-old-native-girl-
http://truthfight.com/police-say-tasering-8-year-old-native-american-girl-was-justified/
 https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/09/us/south-dakota-taser-lawsuit/index.html