Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

October 31, 2012

During a grade school ?career day? last May, New Mexico state trooper Chris Webb invited several youngsters to clean his patrol car. When one of them, a student identified in court papers as ?R.D.,? refused to participate, Webb drew his taser and said, ?Let me show you what happens to people who do not listen to the police.? He then shot the 10-year-old child in the chest. The youngster blacked out as a result of the 50,000-volt assault, and was left with large scars resembling cigarette burns.

Rather than calling paramedics, Webb pulled the barbs from the victim?s chest and took the traumatized student to the principal?s office.

Rachel Higgins, the victim?s guardian ad litem, reports that since the incident the child will often wake up in the middle of the night clutching his chest, ?afraid that he is never going to wake up again.?

Higgins is suing the department on behalf of the victim. Webb, who should be prosecuted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, remains on the police force. The one ambivalent benefit to this episode is that it should disabuse the victim and his friends of the notion that policemen should be seen as friendly guardians of their rights.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.