Police reviewing use of stun guns after second child shocked with Taser

associated press [us] november 13th, 2004 miami (ap) - police have acknowledged using a stun gun to immobilize a 12-year-old girl just weeks after an officer jolted a six-year-old with 50,000 volts. police director bobby parker defended the decision to use a taser stun gun on the six-year-old boy last month because he was threatening to injure himself with a shard of glass. but parker said Friday he could not defend the decision to shock the fleeing girl, who was skipping school and apparently drunk. according to the incident report, officer william nelson responded to a complaint that children were swimming in a pool, drinking alcohol and smoking cigars on the morning of nov. 5. nelson said he noticed the girl was intoxicated and was walking her to his car to take her back to school when ...