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Father Tasered Trying to Leave Hospital with Infant
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2007-08-15 02:46
Story here. Excerpt:
'HOUSTON (AP) - In a confrontation captured on videotape, a hospital security guard fired a stun gun to stop a defiant father from taking home his newborn, sending both man and child crashing to the floor.
Now the man says the baby girl suffers from head trauma because she was dropped.
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David Boling, an off-duty Houston police officer working security at the hospital, and another security guard can be seen on the surveillance video arriving at the elevators and trying to talk with Lewis. Lewis appears agitated as he walks around the elevators holding his daughter in his right arm.
Within 40 seconds of arriving, Boling is holding the Taser. He walks around Lewis and whispers to the other guard, who moves to Lewis' right side.
About a minute later, Boling can be seen casually standing near Lewis, not looking in his direction, when he suddenly raises the Taser and fires it at Lewis, who was still holding his daughter.'
Remember men, a man holding a baby is ipso facto a criminal!
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When I read about this in
When I read about this in April the hospital wasn't claiming the couple wasn't trying to leave. In fact the couple had tried to leave and the hospital was trying to make them stay, they even cited that as a reason he should have known about the security measures. And for obvious reasons there are procedures for leaving a hospital with a newborn. One thing this article didn't mention was that Lewis had set off the alarm that rings when someone leaves the hospital with a newborn unexpectedly.
For that reason the hospital security had ever right to try and prevent him (and the mother, and the infant) from leaving. Tasering the guy is just all kinds of stupid. It was an off duty cop on a power trip. I wonder if he was even issued the taser as part of his job as a hospital security officer, or if he just had it as part of his police equipment.
I would however be interested in any studies showing who's actually stealing babies from hospitals. Even if it's men, which I doubt it is, I wonder who they're stealing the kids for.
Sorry, there's some dark humor here but no gender issue
"Lewis [the father] was arrested and charged with endangering a child.."
Maybe he should have thrown the child to the mother just before he was tasered...that's it: "failure to throw baby when baby is in iminent danger from a police officer."
All kidding aside, can someone point out the gender issue(s) to me? I've read the article a couple times, and just don't see it. They weren't going to taser the mother, apparently she was not the one becoming hostile (or holding the baby for that matter). This is, rather, a classic example of police stupidity and brutality.
-ax
Taser the mom?
Would the guard have tasered mom if she had been the one carrying on? The point is, law enforcers are far more likely to whack men "as a precaution" while women don't get such treatment. You can be 100% sure that had mom been the one making for the elevator, she would not have been tasered.
In any case, now they have a baby who has been possibly damaged for life because of the act of one fool. As we all know, 'tis men and children who pay most for the chronic misandry found in society. This one has paid with her mental health for the rest of her life.
would there have been better success?
If the security guard had said, "put down the baby or I'll taser your wife!".
oregon dad
I agree, but based only on the information given in the article,
With only the article to go on, I do not see the gender issue here. What someone "would/would not have done" in any given case is speculation (no matter how accurate). If at some other time or locale, a mother in a similar situation was NOT tasered, then there would be an issue.
It is like saying there is a men's rights issue if a man and a woman were robbing a bank, and as the man was carrying the money out the door, the police shot him, but did not shoot the woman, who was carrying nothing. Sorry, that scenario does not give a men's rights issue.
-ax