A woman claims a 10-year-old was tasered by police in Rotorua. Photo / SuppliedNZ Police Association president Chris Cahill has backed the officers involved in an incident which led to a 10-year-old boy being tasered in Rotorua last week after allegedly attempting to stab an officer, claiming alternative “touchy-feely stuff puts people at risk”. They’re asking him to put it down, and talking to him, they’re not touching him, they’re just talking to him. But he’s swinging the knife around them, trying to stab them and kick them and all that. Following further questions, police clarified the taser was “deployed against a young person, who is going through a youth process”.

Source: Stuff January 26, 2023 16:39 UTC