Off-duty Cop Uses Taser on Man Holding His Newborn Baby

Guard Uses Taser on Man Holding Newborn
By JUAN A. LOZANO Tue Aug 14
HOUSTON - 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 William Lewis says his baby girl suffers from head trauma because she was dropped.

"I've got to wonder what kind of moron would Tase an adult holding a baby," said George Kirkham, a former police officer and criminologist at Florida State University. "It doesn't take rocket science to realize the baby is going to fall."

Lewis, 30, said the April 13 episode began after he and his wife felt mistreated by staff at the Woman's Hospital of Texas and they decided to leave. Hospital employees told him doctors would not allow it, but Lewis picked up the baby and strode to a bank of elevators.

The elevators would not move because wristband sensors on each baby shut them off if anyone takes an infant without permission.

Lewis, who gave the video to The Associated Press, said his daughter landed on her head, but it cannot be seen on the video. He said the baby continues to suffer ill effects from the fall.

"She shakes a lot and cries a lot," Lewis said, noting doctors have performed several MRIs on the child, Karla. "She's not real responsive. Something is definitely wrong with my daughter."...

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[n2121966]

So you cannot take your own baby out of hospital without hospital permission? That's ludicrous! In the UK, you'd sign a medical discharge and leave and even if you left without it, no-one would be tazered; especially so if you were actually holding your baby!!! This is shocking. The man presented no threat to the officers and security guard.

[oblivionenigma]

@theffintruth So many complications from hospital births, it should be well within a parent's right to decide where the child goes. Unless the child is having an emergency, the hospital should have no right to prevent him/her from being discharged

[kingdobbs1]

I sew both cops and the Hospital!

[TheRoyalblood51]

@MasterBlasterRGR ur a dumb ass, even though the babby did diserve to be tazed or droped, hell shouldnt have even had that happen around the chiled in the first place

[TheRoyalblood51]

ok look that is FUCkIN BULL SHIT the babby probably dosnt just have head trauma from being droped, but im positive the babbys brain was electrocuted

[MasterBlasterRGR]

Must have done something wrong...

[FangedReviewer]

That guy was itching to use his toy on anyone that day, i mean, he was holding it with his gun on the trigger waiting to pounce.

wouldn't be surprised if he still used the taser if the victim was a 6 year old child.

[marco168888]

Only in the USA

[prokiller351]

This isnt good, I recently watched a video of a whole police line being tazed with just one tazer shot into one and it went down the line, so not just the man got tazed but the baby did too... :(

[tukedmj]

He Stole the Baby!

[iculookin65]

All u people r dumb he could have brought the newborn in for a checkup did u dumb fucks think about that. I raised 5kids by myself for the first three years they were alive cuz the mothers both had to go back to their countries. They r citizens now.i had to argue with asshole cops every time i took them for a checkup u dumb fucks need to wake up

[XPEHATO]

Poor americans. When I see it. I am very happy that FEMA build camps for  stupid &cruel americans! Good americans must live in good contry. uaff.us/femacamps.htm