Police Taser 10-Year-Old Boy; Foster Father Says It's Okay

There isn't enough information in this to be sure what happened! Many 10 year olds are close to adult size, some are very small. Because the boy's privacy is protected, we cannot tell if he is large enough to be easily over powered.

A child who is out of control and has a weapon of any sort will tend to use it without considering the consequences. That means that there is no way for the police to safely secure the child, without hurting him or themselves.

One could wish for a batman-like net to trap a child like this....

They've had several problems with this boy.Have these foster parents done anything to get professional help for for him? There are obviously some serious problems here. I don't think a taser or incarceration is an effective way to deal with an out of control kid. The foster parents are responsible for the care and safety of this child and should be held accountable for not providing mental health care.This situation should not have been allowed to escalate to this point.

you're already close enough to get hit with the pipe or to take it away from him.

Any full grown, physically fit cop, trained in martial arts, as they are, should have no problem dealing with a fourth grader, without the use of a few million volts of electricity.

Excessive force precedent applies.

Alternately, the foster parents should be tasered. Competent guardians don't have these kind of problems.

If someone's defacing property with a pipe then a taser is sure a safe alternative to having your brains sprayed across the ground.

Regardless of what you think of police , anyone can safely say that tasers quite literally safe lives every time they're used instead of anything worse...