Reported Fallbrook Runaway Teen Tackled, Tased by Deputy in Video

Source: NBC 7 San Diego

A Sheriff's spokeswoman said the reported runaway teen became combative at one point and bit the deputy.

San Diego Sheriff's officials are defending tactics used on a runaway teen whom a deputy tackled and tased in an incident caught on camera, detailing the sequence of events that led to an officer firing a taser.

The 13-year-old Fallbrook boy, reported as a runaway by his mother for nearly two days, was recorded by witness Jonathan Daza with a cellphone as it happened.

"I think its been portrayed as...an out-of control deputy and I think the deputy was very conscientious in this case," said Sheriff Bill Gore.

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