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This ^ should never have happened.
We've registered our son (despite my mis-givings) with the police as moderate to severely autistic, non-verbal, with slight cerebral palsy BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT THINGS LIKE THIS to happen to him (as well as for other reasons, explained below).
The police in Canada seem to be much better trained (or more patient) than in the States, but we don't want anything going wrong for him in any encounters.
He is rarely out of our sight or hearing and we got him a Medic-Alert tag for his running shoes that can point police to his info (supposedly, they are trained to look for tags like this), but registered him with the local police to let them have INSTANT info if he ever did go missing (they won't have to wait for us to get them pictures and info: they will be able to access it from their site).
They will know his name, any nick-names he will respond (possibly) to, how he might react to them, how to get calm him down, that he will probably want to be hugged, etc.
We want him to be trouble free if found by the police (the school has let him run a couple of times but have always caught up to him eventually.... so far).
But what happened in the video above is disgusting. He sprays water at them and they taze him over and over and over and over????
WTF?
If that happened to our son, they would be seeing a VERY expensive court case and disciplinary actions and HELL FIRE RAINED DOWN ON THEM and have their asses plugged with cement if possible.
Never. ever. ever. should. have. happened.
*****
Just read the rest of the story: the down syndrome kid being asphyxiated by police and the other shit.
No charges were laid against the cops who tazed the kid in the shower?
My God.
How do these people go on in their lives.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday October 05 2018, @11:28PM
Look, espcially in the US, the police are selected to be low-IQ bullying thugs. And I mean it about the low IQ; IIRC anyone whose entrance exam scores are equivalent to 110 or above is automatically disqualified. Policing also attracts a certain kind of person, as well, the ones who like to lord it over others. It's dangerous work, which means it selects for people with high risk-taking personalities. It also doesn't pay too well from what I understand. Basically, they ain't America's Finest (TM) and I suspect there's not much difference in Canada.
Stay out of the US. Your child will be murdered by the police, not just for no reason, but because the child is an easy target and some psycho with a badge knows he can get away with it.