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Monday, June 8, 2009

16 Year Old Tasered for using cell phone, police officers say they had to tase him.

What We Think About Taser Abuse

Now to cover up their own crime, police say the young man hit two officers and now may be charged with several felonies.

The Pittsburgh high school student who wouldn't stop using cell phone and the school superintendent Dr. Joseph Carroll and School Board President Joe Bailey say the problems in the district are with a few students.

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The grandmother of this young man is not feeling the police reports. The
grandmother said police used excessive while police say an officer, who was stationed at the school, saw a male student walking in a hallway talking on a cell phone between classes and ordered the teenager to return to class, according to police Chief Howard Burton.

"The student ignored the officer, who then took him by the arm to escort him to the office," Burton said. "Now the police are saying the student resisted and pushed the officer. More HERE


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Now the question is should a high school student be tasered for using a cell phone?

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