An Arkansas cop tasered an unruly 10-year-old girl after her mother called police to report that the child was crying, screaming, and refusing to go to bed.

The tased girl, Kiara Medlock, is about 65 pounds and 4' 6", according to her father.

According to the Ozark Police Department report, when Officer Dustin Bradshaw arrived at the residence last Thursday, he found the girl "screaming, kicking, and resisting every time her mother tried to touch her." Bradshaw added that, "Her mother told me to tase her if I needed to." 

After Kiara continued to refuse her mother's instructions, the cop concluded that "there was not going to be a peaceful resolution of the issue." Bradshaw warned the girl that she was "going to jail," but the child continued kicking and crying and resisted his attempt to handcuff her. During the tussle, Kiara "struck me with her legs and feet in the groin, reported Bradshaw, who countered with a brief "stun to her back" with his Taser.

The child, not surprisingly, "immediately stopped resisting and was placed into handcuffs. She would not walk on her own and I had to carry her to my police car." Kiara was then transported to a youth shelter.

In a country where just about anyone can become a police officer regardless of IQ, Mr. Bradshaw may just be up for promotion.

	1. 25-11-2009 02:56
	All Mental The cop is clearly violating the law for tazering the little girl,he should be disciplined.  The mother must be taught properly how to discipline her 10 years old daughter, and she must be disciplined.  The little girl, sending her to youth center might be too much, but it is the right decision. She must be disciplined.  The world has gone mental. Guest

GunTher

	2. 25-11-2009 01:04
	Oh get off it.. They'd do similar if she was in a detention center, only it might be a shield with a shocker built in plus she'd be tackled. A quick shock from a tazer did the trick, it's not as if he stood there zapping her repeatedly. If it was that bad of a situation and the idiot parents had to call the police, so be it. Guest

	3. 25-11-2009 00:20
	Ugly manner Americans describe people of other nations as Barbarians ... How ironic is that ?! Guest

Anonymous

	4. 25-11-2009 00:08
	Ugly manner I agree with SemiSweet. Kids these days need discipline and good old fashoned physical punishment like spankings work sometimes. Tasering...well, that's new for me, but it will give the mom future disciple leverage, that's for sure! Guest

Snarky

	5. 24-11-2009 22:34
	Did nothing wrong. The tazer is meant to be a lesser alternative to the billy club. Non lethal devices range from the bean bag shotgun round to the billy club and finally down to the tazer and pepper spray. A tazer is the lowest form of defense for an officer. A lesser man would have stomped the crap out of her. I believe he showed excellent restraint in the situation. I certainly would have tazed a violent offender that kicked me in the junk... I've been hit with a tazer many times before during training. It hurts a bit, not that much, but it makes you IMMEDIATELY stop whatever you were doing and reconsider it. No permanent harm is done, just a little pain and a life lesson. I'd take getting hit briefly by a tazer over a billy club beating or pepper spray in the face any day!    Also, from the officer's point of view, he was responding to a call about a potentially violent offender. The mother had plenty of options when it came to discipline with her child, either she is too stuipid to be able to deal with her child sensibly or the child was severly out of control. Regardless, she chose to call the police and this is how they handle being assaulted, regardless of the age or sex of the offender. Guest

Mikey

	6. 24-11-2009 22:24
	Did nothing wrong The tazer is meant to be a lesser alternative to the billy club. Non lethal devices range from the bean bag shotgun round to the billy club and finally down to the tazer and pepper spray. A tazer is the lowest form of defense for an officer. A lesser man would have stomped the crap out of her. I believe he showed excellent restraint in the situation. I certainly would have tazed a violent offender that kicked me in the junk... I've been hit with a tazer many times before during training. It hurts a bit, not that much, but it makes you IMMEDIATELY stop whatever you were doing and reconsider it. No permanent harm is done, just a little pain and a life lesson. I'd take getting hit briefly by a tazer over a billy club beating or pepper spray in the face any day!    Also, from the officer's point of view, he was responging to a call about a potentially violent offender. The mother had plenty of options when it came to discipline with her child, either she is too stuipid to be able to deal with her child sensibly or the child was severly out of control. Regardless, she chose to call the police and this is how they handle being assaulted, regardless of the age or sex of the offender. Guest

Mikey

	7. 24-11-2009 19:55
	I hate cops... I really do... but I really really do with a passion... I can't stand that they get any publicity good or bad... let alone being in a presence of one. HOWEVER, there is a need for authority respect. I mean seriously kicking a police office in the groin by a brat kid? What is this world coming to!!! You people must be insane and completely oblivious to what your good children are doing when you turn your head away. People need to respect authority not provoke situations which will later on result in them getting a large settlement of money! This is the United States of America we have it so good here, yet people abuse the system left and right and are looking for handouts and to create situations where they can sue sue sue sue... Completely absurd. Like I said I hate cops with a passion for their abusive ways of treating people, however if you don't give them any respect don't expect any in return. Guest

Petey

	8. 24-11-2009 19:50
	Have you ever tried to stop a rampaging My neighbors daughter is autistic and she had a fit one day at a picnic and her dad tried to restrain her. He was being as gentle as he possibly could and ended up breaking her arm because she would not stop flailing around. Assuming this child was acting similarly, I would say that it was safer for both her and the officer that she was tased. You will all notice that the officer was not suspended with pay because he tased her. Everyone in the Dept thinks that was the right thing to do. He was suspended because he did not follow dept policy by starting the camera that was built into the taser. Guest

Sean

	9. 21-11-2009 02:05
	Discipline at it's Finest Not that I condone the rash manner in which this officer reacted, but since we are no longer allowed to discipline our own children effectively, maybe one good stun won't deserve another. Guest

SemiSweet

	10. 20-11-2009 22:42
	Wow... The officer in question was suspended for 8days WITH pay!  How crazy is that?! Guest

Elise

	11. 20-11-2009 21:53
	Little Rock Good thing the mother didn't advise the cop to shoot her in the head. He would have done it. Guest

Jason

	12. 20-11-2009 20:06
	10 yo tazered I am an Ex-Police Officer from white River Junc, Vermont. Please tell me that this officer is going to be dismissed and charged with aggrevated assault of a minor. Guest

Tom Crawford

	13. 20-11-2009 21:57
	Oh My This Cop should be locked up in a mental institution.  The mother should be right behind him, in the same institution. Guest

Dr. William

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