Cop Helps Break Up Fight At School by Shooting Wrong Student With Taser

Syracuse police said Officer James Stone, a school resource officer, fired the Taser at a girl he determined to be the main combatant in the second of two fights that broke out as school let out that afternoon. Authorities said the Taser missed the girl but one of the probes struck the male she was throwing punches at. [...]

When the youth saw another girl running toward his friend, he stepped in between them to prevent his friend from being hurt, Weatherspoon contends. She maintains her son was trying to break up the confrontation between the two girls when police and school officials arrived on the scene.

None of the officers made their presence known before Stone discharged his Taser, striking her son in the arm, Weatherspoon contends. Without any warning, the officer then pulled the trigger, subjecting her son to a painful shock, the mother claims.

The officers then handcuffed her son as he lay on the ground in front of 30 to 40 students, many of whom were telling the officers that her son had been trying to stop the fight, Weatherspoon charges.