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uh... oregon cops have ta's is it taste artes ur
artes several yeah
oregon cops of taste an artistic eleven year old girl
there's an article in think progress about this
a taxi driver spotted an eleven-year-old autistic girl walking naked on the
highway
told oregon state police oregon state police show up he pays the girl they say
listen it was necessary to taste her
to apprehend her now there's a witness named adam bad nar and he says that's
not the way it went down uh... she wasn't walking towards the road which is
why they said what we need to taste her
for her own safety right to get or not walking to the road he says that he
drove along side the girl while calling police
he says the trooper who arrived called for her to stop when she didn't respond
threatened twice the taser obviously
does she know it you know what being pays the irs
and after getting no response to a little red dots appeared on her back
and then those metal barbs
that are the taser she sees dot as she fell face first on the ground says
bednar
i have a real problem with this nobody's been suspended so far
their is an investigation going on ok that's fine
i have a lot of problems though because uh... a department of justice
investigation of portland oregon police last year found a pattern of abuse and
excessive force including ta's ng
of those who are mentally ill
but the problem i have is autism isn't mental illness at the developmental
disability
that's kind of a few layers remove
of probably from the most immediate
problem that babbit that we see here but that's one problem i'm having the
decisions that
people with developmental disabilities are being kind of
assumed to be under the same umbrella as those who are mentally ill by police who
were dealing with very different situations yeah it's a it's a
multifaceted problem we've got a really think we can begin to uh...
to cover it from every angle noble but the thing i do wanna says i'm very
concerned
that tasters are not being used the way they're supposed to be used the way
police department say they will be used as remember
teasers are non-lethal alternatives
to fire arms so you use a taser when you would normally use a gun the situation
warrants using a gun but you want harm reduction cc instead of firing my gun
which would be appropriate
undated use it a czar instead so legally there has to be the same repercussions
it this is
can anyone say what we would have shot the girl if she was about to walk into
the road to prevent her from getting run over by a car
this was used as a compliance tool
that's not how to users are supposed to be used for a nap
and that's ever used every day there's this is happening uh...
that this is rampant across the country rented and willie rampant