The news story just leaves me speechless. It should be clear by now that I am 100% against tasers. But tazing a freaking kid in the *head*? Really? Can all of us agree that this is so beyond words wrong it can’t get much more wrong? (If that made no grammatical sense at all, watch the video and see if YOU can form a coherent sentence!)

From Huffington post

This New Mexico teen was arguing with her mother, so her mother brought her to a police station to get help (it’s unclear what kind of argument they could have been having that would warrant police intervention).

The girl ran off and the police chief chased her and ordered her to stop. When she didn’t, he tasered her in the head. The giant scar and stitches in the teen’s head show the tasering was terribly brutal, and it’s difficult to see how this could in any way be justified.

The fact is, this crap can’t be justified. If this had happened to a hardened criminal, it couldn’t be justified–and it’s time for all of us to stop finding ways to justify it. Law enforcement has NEVER been about administering it’s own form of punishment–and that’s what administering these type of “control” methods really are. They aren’t simply incapacitating a person so that the law can admister punishment–they are administering the punishment itself. And they are administering punishment that legally would be indefensible in almost every circumstance.

But I guess if you do this crap *before* you book people into the legal system–it doesn’t count? Or it’s ok?