- Breaking developments about the
response to a controversial video
10News first had last night.
- Sheriff Bill Gore just talked about
that video in the past 30 minutes.
He confirmed it show a Sheriff's Deputy
using a taser on a teenage boy.
10News reporter, Jared Aarons, live in Kearny Mesa now.
So Jared, the Sheriff painted a very different picture
from what the boy's friends told us last night.
- He did.
Sheriff Gore said the use of force
and of the taser was justified, and here's why.
He passed out these pictures of Deputy Jeremy Banks,
the Deputy involved in that incident.
And you can see bite marks on Deputy Banks' arms.
Sheriff Gore says it's only after
that young boy bit Deputy Banks' in a way
that he called significant and severe
that the incident escalated.
- [Voiceover] He choking him out.
Look he's choking him out (beep).
He's tased him, what the (beep), man!
- [Jared] This video shows that incident
what Sheriff Gore says it doesn't show though
is the up to 20 times that the officer
asked the boy to get into his car
so he could take him home
before the officer had to use some kind of force.
Reportedly, according to the Sheriff,
the officer went to the boy's mother's home
early Saturday evening
where she reported the boy as a runaway.
Said he been gone for about a day and a half
and that this was the fifth time
that he had run away.
According to the Sheriff, when a juvenile
is reported as a runaway it is their responsibility
to bring that child home,
and he says this fight doesn't show
an out of control officer,
rather it shows an out of control child.
- I think the Deputy was very conscientious
in this case.
Immediately followed up the lead,
tried repeatedly to get the juvenile
to voluntarily go in the car
so he could return to his mother.
And in actually what we have is
really an out of control juvenile.
- There are also new developments in this case.
We learned that overnight
the Fallbrook Sheriff's Substation was vandalized.
Several cars and the building were spray painted,
there were even some broken windows.
Sheriff Gore says that is under investigation,
but some of the messages left
in the spray paint indicate
that it is related to this use of force.
He also says that Deputy Banks
is off today, but will return to normal duty
the next time he's scheduled to work
even while this incident remains under investigation.
And friends of that boy tell us
that there is a demonstration scheduled
for 5:30 tonight in Fallbrook.
The Sheriff says deputies will be there
to make sure that everything remains peaceful.
Live in Kearny Mesa, Jared Aarons, 10News.