14 DAY TRIAL // State police officer Chris Webb, from New Mexico, is being sued by the legal guardian of a 10-year-old boy for assaulting him with a 50,000 volt stun gun, during Career Day.
The incident, reported by InfoWars, happened at Tularosa New Mexico Intermediate School on May 4, where Webb visited to explain to children what it means to be a police officer.
Webb asked a group of boys which of them wanted to clean his patrol car, and, when one refused, tasered him to teach him a lesson.
“Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police,” he reportedly said.
The boy blacked out, as the Taser gun was being applied to his chest. He is left with scarring that the legal guardian, Rachel Higgins, says “look like cigarette burns.”
“Instead of calling emergency medical personnel, Officer Webb pulled out the barbs and took the boy to the school principal’s office,” she claims.
Police guidelines limit the use of stun guns to situations in which the officer is in immediate threat. In the past, they have been linked to cardiac arrests and several other heart problems, as well as seizures.
For his actions, Webb is standing trial on counts of battery, excessive force and unreasonable seizure. He is also facing counts of negligent use of police-issued assault weapons, and will have to answer to the court for failing to render emergency medical care, as his first response was letting the school deal with the issue.
The child's guardian is blaming him for the boy's current fragile emotional state, suffering from insomnia and night terrors.
“No reasonable officer confronting a situation where the need for force is at its lowest, on a playground with elementary age children, would have deployed the Taser in so reckless a manner as to cause physical and psychological injury,” Ms. Higgins stated.