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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 [Brandon] 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.


"Brandon did absolutely nothing wrong," says Bennett, "and there was no reason to use that type of force on my son."


The Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office says Lenzi has been reassigned to internal duties while authorities investigate the allegations. Bennett is hoping fair punishment is given.


"I will not be satisfied until I know that Deputy Lenzi will be in a position to never to this to anyone else's child ever again."


This video is from CNN.com, broadcast February 19, 2008.

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  • @AntiEmpire1 shut dat shyt up

  • @Kashyouz777 STOP TALKING LIKE THAT, U LOOK RETARDED AND WE CANT TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY. THIS IS WHY WE CALL BLACK PEOPLE NIGGERS. EDUCATE YOURSELVES AND YOU CAN GET OUT OF THE OPPRESSION YOUR STILL IN.

  • @BaddieAss Its true, but white people gave them this reputation in the 30s or 40s. What do you do when you kill your wife? Blame the black man. What do you do when you rob a bank? blame the black man.

  • @bloozeman1969 And the kid doesn't have a criminal record. You are kinda racist you know? You take it a little too far. Just admit that you were wrong. Racist asshole... I fucking hate black criminals just as much as the next guy but jumping to the conclusion that he was a criminal shows how small minded you are. Ass.

  • @bloozeman1969 You are right, but cops are fucking faggots and they deserve to get shot in the head =D

  • if ah whyte kid got tasered dat kop wuda got da death penalty dat jus show u how fukd up shyt iz n world

  • @gbalsamo4 I speak the truth and you call me an idiot, well your an idiot for not being able to accept the truth.... take 50 white kids and 50 black kids and run a criminal background check on all of them and you know damn well the black kids are going to have far more criminal offenses than the white kids......call that racist or call it whatever the fuck you want but its the truth and the blacks do it to themselves.....

  • @bloozeman1969 Why? Because of his skin color? You are an idiot.

  • It looks like they had him on the ground and then the cop tasered him at that point. All that power went to his head.

  • I bet if you ran this kid's criminal record it would be a mile long.......

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