Texas deputy who tased migrant child placed on administrative leave
The Texas deputy who tased a 16-year-old asylum seeker at a government-funded shelter has been placed on administrative leave, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
The announcement came a day after Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting published body camera footage of the incident as part of an investigation into federally sponsored shelters turning over migrant children to law enforcement.
In the footage of the May 2020 incident, which Reveal obtained through a public records request, Deputy Patrick Divers can be seen arriving at the Southwest Key Casa Blanca shelter in San Antonio. Staff there had called 911 after the boy, who had fled Honduras at age 15, refused to go to class and had broken some bed frames and storage bins.
Divers didn’t request evidence of the child’s alleged wrongdoing at the time, according to the footage. The deputy didn’t attempt to have his orders translated into Spanish by the bilingual shelter staff, nor did he tell the boy that he was under arrest. He ordered the teen in English to stand up and turn around. The child showed no signs of fighting back or resisting arrest. Divers then shot the boy with his Taser and repeatedly pulsed the weapon on his torso and thighs, shocking him for 35 seconds, the footage shows.
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