WATCH: Tempe Officers Tase Domestic Violence Suspect Holding Toddler

By Tactical Life

Tempe officers recently tased a man who was still holding a toddler. Since then a firestorm erupted in the local community, while officials claim officers, given the circumstances, did their job accordingly.

The incident began police responded to a domestic violence call, where officers encountered Ivaughn Oakry. The scene escalate pretty quickly, as Oakry, the suspect in the domestic violence call, didn’t appear to want to cooperate. So officers immediately threatened to hit the man with a taser.

Officer body cam footage shows the long standoff, where Oakry picks up a child during the heated exchange. Finally, after much arguing and threatening, officers finally hit Oakry with the Taser, child still in arms. Now many in the local community expressed anger over the police response.

Tempe Officers Tase Suspect Holding Toddler

“This incident has left the entire family, but especially the children, with physical health problems and severe emotional trauma,” Black Lives Matter-Phoenix Metro stated in a news release, according to azcentral.com.

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