Channel 9 has potentially thwarted the ‘woe is me I was innocent’ ploy of a Brisbane teenage terror by releasing footage the teenagers lawyers tried to stop police from releasing.

It all went down last April (2008) at Southbank, Brisbane when a teenage girl defied a police order to “move on” while she waited for an ambulance to treat her sick friend. The police wound up tasering her in the thigh.

Sounds quite sinister doesn’t it? But here’s the problem;

News articles make out like she was just sitting there minding her own business when the big bad police came along and tasered her to all buggery. The Australian even took police to court to “expose the tasering”. The police were demonised by the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC), who concluded that “it could have been handled better”. 

The Police did take action against the teenager for “obstructing police” but that was dismissed and even the magistrate had a go at the police, criticising “the police officers (involved) for over-reacting.” Bleeding heart civil libertarians were quick to join the fray howling for the police’s blood over the incident.

Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson hit back against the claims stating that whilst there were different accounts of what exactly happened on the night, it was  “inarguable” the constable had been physically threatened first.”

But nobody ever believes the police, what they couldn’t subdue a 50kg 16 year old girl? How dare they.

With seemingly everyone on her side the teenager launched her own civil action against the police, believing she had been mistreated. With her hand held out and mother firmly behind her, appalled that her angel had been abused so harshly, the police pulled the old ‘lets release the footage so everyone can see what happened and stop blaming us’ routine.

“Are you kidding? we can’t have that the case will get thrown out of court!” the teenager’s lawyers cried.

In a brilliant piece of lawyering, the lawyers managed to bandy about enough threats that the police sought legal advice of their own and ultimately pulled a last minute backflip on releasing the footage.

However, Channel 9 would have none of it and aired the footage anyway.

Yeah, definitely looks innocent doesn’t it. People carry on and whinge about police being heavy handed, yet when they deploy a quick and easy non lethal weapon to subdue an out of control little monster they are hounded.

To all the bleeding hearts out there: what exactly were the police supposed to do in that situation, just take the beating, or maybe ask her to politely stop kicking them and carrying on like a little brat? She’s damn lucky she doesn’t live in SeaTac City, now those police know all about excess force:


If you want to question a police order do so politely, if you kick and scream and throw punches at police you deserve everything they throw at you.

Good on the police for doing their jobs and here’s to many more out-of-control-teenager taserings. I sincerely hope an apology is forthcoming from the idiots at the CMC.

Justice: 1

Money grabbing teenagers: 0.

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