cops, tasers
In an ill-advised attempt to awaken a sleeping high school student, an Ohio cop sparked her Taser near the snoozing pupil, prompting a classroom commotion and the officer’s eventual suspension.
According to investigators, Officer Maryssa Boskoski, 32, was working last week as the resource officer at Liberty Preparatory School in Smithville, a village about 25 miles from Akron.
Boskoski, seen at right, was summoned Thursday to a classroom by an administrator who reported that she and a teacher had been unable to rouse the snoozing junior. Boskoski then activated her Taser and began sparking, or “arcing,” the weapon near the teenage boy