Deputy tasers high school student against direct orders

[Echo In Light]

"Git em, Bubba!"

Deputy tasers high school student against direct orders
David Edwards and Adam Doster

Outside a Maryland high school gym last Wednesday, sophomore Brandon Bennett got into a small altercation with a fellow student. It was after a basketball game and tempers were high, but the the two were separated by officials and students without much problem. Only then did things get really violent.

According to Julius Bennett, the student's father, Deputy Anthony Lenzi fired a Taser at his son after being told twice by a senior officer it was not necessary.

"He left two puncture wounds just above his heart in his chest," says Bennett. "And said to me that he was in quite a bit of pain because he could feel electric shocks going throughout his whole body."

The father says he has written proof Sgt. Mathew Kempel twice ordered Lenzi to holster the weapon, but Lenzi fired anyway, hitting the teen in the chest.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Deputy_tasers_high_school_student_against_0219.html

[babydollhead]

1. this happened in Pittsburgh

the Swissvale police went crazy with pepper spray on a gym fulll of 7th and 8th graders when they were called to drive two boys home who'd been fighting and were outside waiting for the ride home and the police charged the gymnasium, kept the kids shut in and gassed the place.

[islandmkl]

2. hey...you gotta get the practice in whenever and wherever you can...

[KG]

3. law enforcement in this country is totally out of control.

[lonestarnot]

4. Yes they are. Did you see the woman whose nose was broken, both eyes blackened

and a pool of blood after the camera was turned off in an interrogation room. Male deputy was fired for assaulting her, but the damage is already done.