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Deputy tasers high school student against direct orders

02/19/2008 @ 10:18 am

Filed by David Edwards and Adam Doster

 

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.

 

http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=9345

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