Pueblo, Colo. A 10-year-old by was violently incapacitated by two Pueblo Sheriff’s deputies in Pueblo on Monday. The deputies fired a taser gun at the child after he refused to drop the metal pipe he was holding and come out of his hiding place between a camper and a fence.
According to a story published in The Pueblo Chieftain, Deputies Mark Myers and Randy Mondragon responded to a call of a foster child out of control. The child was reportedly threatening his foster dad with a stick and had thrown a landscaping timber at the man.
When deputies arrived on the scene, the boy fled and hid in between a camper and a fence. The deputies felt threatened by the pipe-brandishing child and since there were too far away to deploy pepper spray, they electrocuted the child with a taser gun.
Captain Jeff Teschner of the Pueblo Sheriff’s office defended the tasing, accusing the foster child of being emotionally distressed, and possibly having psychological problems. Teschner said the tasing was in accordance with Sheriff’s Department policies, and that those policies do not have age restrictions for the use of electrocution.
The child was arrested on suspicion of menacing with a deadly weapon and is being held in a juvenile detention center. Currently, excessive force charges have not been filed against the two deputies.
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