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Father Of Knife-Wielding Nevada Teen Shot By Cops Says Blade Was For Bullies

  Father Of Shot Reno High Schooler Says Knife Was Protection From Bullies Yesterday we reported that police in Reno, Nevada shot a 14-year-old Logan Clark in the neck when he refused to put down a knife that he was waving at his classmates. The boy is expected to survive, but his father says his son isn’t a raging lunatic with a big a$$ knife, he was just protecting himself from the school bullies. According to NYDailyNews : The boy’s father Justin Clark said on Facebook and said that his son “brought the knives because he was gonna b jumped and he was the school knew of this and failed to act.” His father wrote that his son was being bullied and “is not the kind to back down.” The family lawyer told CBSNews : “It was clear that the child was not being aggressive, but rather was trying to keep people away from him. He was not attempting to hurt people,” Must. Be. Mutha. F**kin’. Nice. Because we know good and damn well neither the father, nor the lawyer would be saying this if they heard about a black child who brought a strap to school talmbout some, “These ni**as was tryin’ to jump me, I was just protecting myself.” That said, daddy Clark believes the school should have only used the taser the on son, not the gun. Welcome to our life, daddy Clark. Image via Twitter

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Father Of Knife-Wielding Nevada Teen Shot By Cops Says Blade Was For Bullies

Man sodomized by police Taser plans to sue

A Boise, Idaho, police officer who pushed a Taser inside a man’s buttocks and threatened to “Taser his balls” violated use-of-force policy, but didn’t break the law, an ombudsman has found. The man in question, whose identity is being withheld, plans to sue the Boise police.

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Taser-hit man burst into flames

 A police officer points a Taser gun at the camera, file photo from June 2009

Taser guns discharge 50,000 vol

A man in Western Australia was engulfed in flames when police officers fired a Taser stun gun at him.

Police say they used the Taser on Ronald Mitchell, 36, when he ran at them carrying a container of petrol and a cigarette lighter.

They said that Mr Mitchell, who lives in a remote Aboriginal community, had been sniffing petrol. They suggested the cigarette lighter started the fire.

Mr Mitchell is in a critical condition in hospital with third degree burns.

Bare hands

Western Australia Police say they went to the community of Warburton, about 1,500 km (950 miles) north-east of Perth, in response to a complaint.

They say they used the Taser on Mr Mitchell when he came out of the house and ran at them.

He burst into flames. One officer pushed him to the ground and smothered the fire with his bare hands, police said.

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Mr Mitchell’s sister told The Australian newspaper that her brother had been sniffing petrol.

“He must have put petrol on his face, then the policeman shot him with the Taser, that’s when the flames happened,” she said.

Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan said Mr Mitchell was a known violent offender, and defended the police officers’ deployment of the Taser.

He told reporters: “The only other choice they would have had is to use a police-issue firearm, and the consequences would almost certainly have been far more grave.”

He said the police internal affairs department would investigate the incident, saying there was “a very strong possibility that the fire was caused by the lighter in the hand of the offender”.

Review call

Mr Mitchell was charged with assault to prevent arrest and possession of a sniffing substance.

Dennis Eggington, of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, called for an urgent review of Taser use.

Aboriginal people, he said, were often in poor health, which made them particularly vulnerable to stun weapons.

A Taser works by firing two barbs which penetrate the skin and discharge 50,000 volts along two copper wires attached to the gun.

Amnesty International has called them “potentially lethal”.

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