COP TASERED VAPING TEEN
Twitter is alive with fury after shocking footage emerged of a police officer tasing a teenage boy for vaping .
The video – which already has almost 80,000 views online – showed an unnamed female cop firing her taser at 17-year-old Terion Forston .
She then forced him to his stomach and repeatedly ordered the teen to ‘ get down ’ on the ground .
Police claimed that Forston was only tasered after he ‘ physically resisted efforts to detain him ’… but the viral footage shows he was standing still at the time .
Eyewitness Brendon Aldridge said : “ He was only vaping , she asked him for his ID and he was being calm .
“ She tased him and it was crazy , while he was down on the ground shaking she was like ‘ get down , get down ’ like he wasn ’ t already .”
The incident happened at a city park in Atlanta , Georgia and Forston was later charged with disorderly conduct .
Charles A . Gardner , chief executive of the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organizations tweeted : “ Why do we never learn the lessons of past prohibitions ?
“ Alcohol prohibition FAILED . Cannabis prohibition FAILED . The War on Nicotine is just getting started . It too will fail , but only after more harm like this poor tased teen .”
Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump tweeted : “ WOW — An Atlanta police officer tased a 17 yo teen at a skate park over VAPING ! “ This use of force against a CHILD was not at all necessary ! There MUST be other ways to handle these situations !”
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This use of force against a CHILD was not at all necessary ! There MUST be other ways to handle these situations !
FALSE IMPRISONMENT CHARGE AFTER GIRLS STRIP- SEARCHED FOR HIDDEN VAPES
A US school official has appeared in court charged with false imprisonment after six teenage girls complained that they were strip-searched for concealed vape devices . Kelly Casper , a schools administrator from Suring , Wisconsin , is said to have conducted a search of the schoolgirls aged between 14 and 17 . The girls were allegedly taken into a bathroom in the school nurse ’ s office and told to strip down to their underwear . Oconto County Court was told that two of the girls were allowed to keep their leggings on when they said they were not wearing underwear . The court heard that two vape cartridges were found during the search and another student admitted having a vape on her . The nurse who witnessed the searches reported the incident to her supervisor the next day , saying that she felt them to be ‘ inappropriate .’ Casper , who is on paid administrative leave following the complaint , was released on a $ 5,000 bond . Her lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss the charges which will be heard on April 28 . If convicted , Casper could receive up to six years in jail and be fined up to $ 10,000 on each of the six false imprisonment charges .
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