Yep, your feelings on this matter are entirely justified. Quite often as soon as a story like this is aired (without most of the details) the emotions tend to run rampant, before hanging tough for the details. My first reaction was "outrageous", before considering the possibility that maybe we have a monster on our hands like those two kids in England who murdered the three year old Bulger kid. You just gotta wait until you get the full story. (But in the meantime you can still entertain opinions- recognizing of course they are just opinions) :smile:
Agreed, an 11 year old certainly can be dangerous. As soon as you add a weapon into the mix, almost anyone of any age can be. And truly, I have no issue with the police subduing an individual. The paramount concern should always be safety; of the officers at the scene, of any other individual at the scene as well as the suspect himself.
The articles title is not lost on me either. It's sensational, meant to evoke a sensational emotional response.
So, I'm not rushing to judgement.
However in previous situations, where most of the facts have been made public, it seems more and more apparent that tasers have been over-used or inappropriately used. That lends itself to questions regarding it's use in this circumstance.
Of course, rationally speaking, we do not ever hear about the situations where it has been used appropriately because those situations are not sensational. Appropriate use of tasers does not sell newspapers.