Valley man tasered after police responded to conduct a welfare check
Stephen Osbourne s mother believed he was in the midst of a mental crisis when police tasered him as he was holding his 2-month-old baby. Author: Niala Charles Updated: 10:57 PM MST May 12, 2021
PHOENIX The family of a Valley man is frustrated with law enforcement after a welfare check resulted in him being tasered while holding his 2-month-old daughter in March.
Body camera footage recorded the encounter after Stephen Osbourne s mother said that she called the police for help.
“I don’t know. I don’t know how to breathe words to what happened,” Osborne said.