Taser used on 9-year-old in Maryland

A Carroll County Sheriff's Office deputy deployed a Taser on a 9-year-old boy in Finksburg on Wednesday night after the boy allegedly threatened responding deputies and the boy's mother.

The boy allegedly had two kitchen knives and, while deputies tried to talk the boy into dropping the knives, it got to a point where the deputies' lives were in danger, Sheriff Jim DeWees said.

"It appears the deputies acted appropriately and used the right amount of force under the circumstances," DeWees said.

The deputy did not use the Taser in order to take the boy into custody. The decision was made to use a Taser based on the immediate threat, sheriff's office spokesman Cpl. Jon Light said.

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