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8:37pm August 20, 2014

➸ SD Police Say Tazing 8-Year-Old Native Girl Was Justified, Family Sues

andreashettle:

gravediggs:

The family of an 8-year-old Native American girl who was tazed by police in October is suing while the Pierre Police Department say it was justified.

The Chief of Police justifies the use of a tazer on an 8 year old girl by saying they could have used their guns or batons, essentially. What restraint.

So very relevant to Ferguson, because I imagine the broader pattern of how police respond to people of color affected the outcome of this situation much like it did with Mike Brown.  Today, the police “just” used a tazer and caused some traumatization.  But … are there situations of police shooting and killing Native Americans in the U.S. (or First Nations people in Canada) that don’t hit the media because Native Americans are even more invisible than black people in the U.S.?

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