Sassin’ Your Mother when She's Trying to Bathe Your Narrow Ass? Oh, You'd Better Believe that's a Tasin’

A police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission has been suspended—not for using the Taser but for not having a video camera attached when he used it.

Mayor Vernon McDaniel said officer Dustin Bradshaw was suspended Wednesday for seven days with pay. McDaniel said the suspension is for not following department procedures because he didn't have the camera on.

McDaniel wants Arkansas State Police or the FBI to look into whether the use of the Taser was proper. The girl, who hasn't been identified, wasn't injured and is now at the Western Arkansas Youth Shelter in Cecil.

Police were called to the home Nov. 11 after the girl's mother couldn't get her to take a shower.

Bradshaw's report says the girl was “violently kicking and verbally combative” when Bradshaw tried to take her into custody, and she kicked him in the groin. He said he delivered “a very brief drive stun to her back.”

“Her mother told me to tase her if I needed to,” Bradshaw wrote. “Needless to say, after she kicked me in the jimmies, I needed to Tase her.”

Attempts to reach the child at the Western Arkansas Youth Shelter were unsuccessful. According to the director of children services, Gladys Gates, the child was still in the shower.

“She pretty much lives in there. She goes in when she wakes up, and stays in there until we turn the water off at night.

“She gets out of the shower, puts on her little gown, and rocks herself to sleep, whispering what I thought at first was a lullaby. I now know it's just her talking to herself. ‘Unclean. Unclean. Can't get the Tasing off,’ is all she says over and over again until sleep takes her away.

“The poor, li'l thing: that'll learn her.”

It's called “Tough Love,” people, and if more of you would practice it, the world would be a much better place for me to be in, because I wouldn't have to share space with your bad-ass kids. The only problem I have with this story is that it doesn't end with the cop getting a medal.

Now, that's a crime.