Cop Arrested for Shooting Child in Head With Taser for Interrupting Fellow Officers
Matt Agorist June 4, 2021
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/c...t4O5u-ubQixJ8GMAsTJJRA9mlY5oJUdO3MNPQa88



West Columbia, SC — An officer who was with the Springdale Police Department has been arrested on multiple charges after he drew his taser and shot a child at point blank range in the side of his head. The child committed no crime and had merely interrupted a conversation between the violent cop and his fellow brothers in blue.

Carl Brooks Wilhelm, 36, was gainfully employed with the Springdale Police Department until he was arrested this week and now faces charges of child neglect and misconduct in office for the taser incident.

According to the arrest warrant from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the child’s “mother dropped him off on April 21, 2021 so Wilhelm could take him to school. The arrest warrant states the juvenile interrupted a conversation Wilhelm was having with another officer. Wilhelm then reportedly unholstered his TASER device, pointed it at the juvenile and pulled the trigger — striking him in the left side of his head.”

Because the taser was deployed at such a close range, the child had to be transported to a local hospital in order to get the prongs surgically removed from his head.

Despite the incident unfolding in April, Wilhelm wasn’t arrested until this week. The fact that he tasered the innocent child in the head in front of two other officers who witnessed the sadistic act and failed to arrest him on the spot, also speaks to the insidious nature of the blue code of silence.

Apparently, cops can carry out utterly horrifying acts of violence against children — in front of their fellow officers — and simply walk away.


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According to reports, after the child came out of the hospital, he told investigators that Wilhelm frequently threatened him with his taser and used it to scare him.


After Wilhelm’s arrest, the department released a response claiming they carried out a non-biased investigation.

The Springdale Police Department issued the following statement:

“On 04/21/2021 an incident occurred at Springdale Police Department involving former officer, Carl Wilhelm. Chief Richbourg requested SLED to investigate the incident, to ensure transparency and a non-bias investigation. Wilhelm is no longer employed with the Springdale Police Department.”


According to WIS10, Wilhelm was booked at the Lexington County Detention Center and is out on a Personal Recognizance bond.

If you have never Googled the phrase “40% police” then you may not know that multiple studies have shown that police officer families experience a rate of domestic violence far greater than the average family. We can assume this child was either the son or stepson of this cop since the boy’s mother trusted the officer to bring him to school.


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The phenomenon of wife and child beating cops has been a stain on the thin blue line for decades, backed up by countless news stories, many of which are horrifying in nature. The aforementioned case is a telling reminder that 40 percent of police officer families reportedly experience domestic violence.

A simple Google search will illustrate how police officers are arrested for domestic violence on a near-weekly basis. It is also estimated that the incident rate for domestic violence is likely far higher than reported as many women and children stay silent out of fear of retaliation and the fact that their abuser’s brothers in blue will cover for them.

As this officers watching Wilhelm and refusing to arrest him illustrates, and as TFTP has previously noted, a report by a government-appointed watchdog group shows that most of the time, abusive officers who commit these crimes, do so with seeming impunity.


Fortunately, Wilhelm was eventually arrested. Hopefully, he gets the justice he so desperately deserves.

Nah, thoughtful ethical intellectuals like that would never participate in gun grabs...

What is it with the short fuses of some, (certainly not all), in this field?. I'm talking of my family now.

That's just terrible. I bet he doesn't grow up to act like you two around his dad though.

Police work is extremely stressful. Some people can handle it, some should do something else. All are changed by it, and not entirely for the better.

Hell and I thought it was bad getting whopped upside the head for interrupting dad!

Would I like to have a piece of that guy....

Used to work with a guy from Illinois that said his dad would tase him for getting mouthy .
Don’t know about the rest of his upbringing , but he was dumber than a soup sandwich.
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It's probably the only thing he understood and respected. Some animals can only learn the hard way.

That's what I've seen in friends over the years.

He can raise his kid however he likes on his own time. I'm concerned with the other officers and their bosses didn't do whatever was necessary to immediately make him not a cop anymore. It's that immunity thing again.

So tell us, what did the big bad man in blue do to you?

The extreme amount funding for law enforcement provides for more positions than there are capable and interested people. There needs to be reform to try different ways of attending to problems in addition to a smaller police force. This is part of the argument made by the more reasonable people who are labeled by propagandists as "defund the police".

Do tasers have a non-point-blank range?

Yeah, they make 'em with turrets now.

These showed a lot of promise at one point. Until people saw the price tag.

LOL

Disconcerting that those cops would arrest you for leaving a belt mark on your boys butt but OK such behavior among themselves.

Shocking behavior.

Not sure about that department, but we turn our tasers in every other week to download the activity to the computer. It records every time you turn it on, spark test, or deploy.

I'm thinking that department might be a little... less strict.

“Next time grown folk is talkin...”

The cover up is far worse than the act itself. Everything has turned into filthy crap.

The kid who had to have the prongs surgically removed may disagree.

Are they difficult to remove? I bet he had the AO setting wrong on the taser

I would believe he would, too. But cops not turning other cops in for illegal acts, particularly one with the son of a cop as the victim, can only assure bad cops will always be the police no one can trust.

How old was the "child"?

The high voltage kills brain tissue.
They routinely used shock "therapy" in mental institutions.
People became zombies after much of that.

They are #10 light wire fish hooks, without the bend.

Normally, they aren't because you shoot them from at least 6 feet away, and preferably 10-15 feet away. Each cartridge is rated for a different distance which is achieved by higher velocity ratings. We use the 25ft cartridges. An idiot I work with forgot to remove the cartridge before spark-testing his taser. He at least had it pointed at the ground. The darts went through the carpet and were firmly imbedded in the floor boards. A hit to the head at close range could make for a nasty stick depending on where you’re hit.

I’m not sure what happened as far as the reporting by the witnesses, but if the kid went to the hospital, it would have been obvious what happened and they’d have to report it as possible child abuse. Since the officers are also mandatory reporters, if they didn’t file reports, they’d all get charged too.