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Associated Press - November 19, 2009 7:54 AM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Ozark police officer who used a Taser on an unruly 10-year-old girl has been suspended - not for using the Taser but for not having a video camera attached when he used it.
Mayor Vernon McDaniel says officer Dustin Bradshaw was suspended Wednesday for seven days with pay. McDaniel says the suspension is for not following department procedures because he didn't have the camera on.
McDaniel says he 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 hurt 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" and that seh kicked him in the groin. He said he delivered "a very brief drive stun to her back."
Information from: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, http://www.arkansasonline.com
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