Taser used on 80-year-old woman in Mississauga

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Taser used on 80-year-old woman in Mississauga
Topic Started: Sep 4 2013, 09:20 AM (1,031 Views)
Darcie	Sep 4 2013, 09:20 AM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after officers deployed a Taser on an 80-year-old woman in Mississauga, Ont. The Special Investigations Unit said the incident under investigation occurred in the Thomas Street and Erin Mills Parkway area in the early hours of Aug. 28. Their preliminary information indicates that Peel Regional Police had received calls about a woman walking along the road. The SIU said that police spoke with the woman and "at some point" a Taser was deployed and the woman fell to the ground. The woman was taken to Credit Valley Hospital where she was treated for injuries that included a broken hip. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/09/03/mississauga-woman-taser-police-watchdog-siu-investigation.html I just can' believe these cops, maybe this elderly woman was carrying a knife, or maybe a fork?

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friendshipgal	Sep 5 2013, 03:49 AM Post #16
Guess everyone wants their own Trudashians Posts: 12,815 Group: Member Member #241 Joined: February 12, 2006	goldengal Sep 5 2013, 03:45 AM .............. For someone 80 years old to break a hip, it does not bode well. Take care, Pat No it doesn't. I wonder who called in the report about the use of a cleaver which the police acted on. I will wait for all the details but maybe the police need more info. on how to handle people with mental health issues.



Dana	Sep 5 2013, 03:50 AM Post #17
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	I used to smile and wave when a cop passed me. No longer. It is now the other side of the street I seek. http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca/2013/09/80-year-old-woman-tasered-in-ontario.html And this just after the Ontario government recently announced it will allow police to expand the use of stun guns. Which only goes to prove that it doesn't matter what weapons the police use, if they are not trained when to use them or not. And human decency is absent. They tasered Sammy Yatim after he had been shot eight times. Now they're tasering an elderly woman for walking along a road? What is happening? What kind of country are we becoming? Answer: a place where the violent values of Amerika have replaced our more compassionate and intelligent Canadian ones. A place where the mentally ill, or those in some kind of life crisis are in danger of being killed. By the police charged with protecting us. A place where because it could happen to anybody, nobody is really safe..."



goldengal	Sep 5 2013, 03:57 AM Post #18
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	friendshipgal Sep 5 2013, 03:49 AM goldengal Sep 5 2013, 03:45 AM .............. For someone 80 years old to break a hip, it does not bode well. Take care, Pat No it doesn't. I wonder who called in the report about the use of a cleaver which the police acted on. I will wait for all the details but maybe the police need more info. on how to handle people with mental health issues. I agree FSG that the police definitely seem to require more training in how to interact with mentally ill or those under the influence of drugs, and hopefully this will be in place once they are finished with the Sammy Yatim investigation. Take care, Pat



Dana	Sep 5 2013, 03:59 AM Post #19
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	As in the case of Robert Djiekansky, all it takes is a stapler in hand to get tasered several times, until dead.



Delphi51	Sep 5 2013, 04:21 AM Post #20
Member title Posts: 13,967 Group: Administration Member #441 Joined: October 10, 2006	Our young Mountie who was strangled and left in the ditch after stopping a drunk driver on the highway now must move to a different community - RCMP policy to move members after a major incident. It makes sense but what a terrible time for him and his wife in their first year of marriage.



Durgan	Sep 5 2013, 05:14 AM Post #21
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	Delphi51 Sep 5 2013, 04:21 AM Our young Mountie who was strangled and left in the ditch after stopping a drunk driver on the highway now must move to a different community - RCMP policy to move members after a major incident. It makes sense but what a terrible time for him and his wife in their first year of marriage. No doubt it will make him a smarter cop.



haili	Sep 5 2013, 05:50 AM Post #22
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,084 Group: Member Member #387 Joined: September 15, 2006	Erin Mills Parkway is a really busy road so I can see why they had to get her off it but surely several policemen could have stopped traffic and herded her off the street with riot shields or something. I guess we'll find out when the investigation is finished.



Delphi51	Sep 5 2013, 05:55 AM Post #23
Member title Posts: 13,967 Group: Administration Member #441 Joined: October 10, 2006	Somehow police have the idea tasers are not all that nasty. I think they have to take a zap or two as part of their training to use a taser but there is a big difference between a friendly zap to a healthy young person than to an older person in a high stress situation.



Durgan	Sep 5 2013, 06:47 AM Post #24
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	At RCMP Gespo training centre in Regina, cops use to be zapped as part of their training. It was abandoned when one young female recruit refused to partake a few years ago. She was dismissed from the program. TASERS use should be abolished. Wake up Sheeple.



heatseeker	Sep 5 2013, 07:08 AM Post #25
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	Tasers were introduced as a non-lethal alternative to shooting people. Sort of like when heroin was introduced as a non-addictive alternative to morphine.



goldengal	Sep 5 2013, 07:36 AM Post #26
Mistress, House of Dogs Posts: 11,674 Group: Member Member #715 Joined: March 31, 2010	haili Sep 5 2013, 05:50 AM Erin Mills Parkway is a really busy road so I can see why they had to get her off it but surely several policemen could have stopped traffic and herded her off the street with riot shields or something. I guess we'll find out when the investigation is finished. It was around 3 a.m. so likely the road would not be very busy at that time. Still, not healthy to be out on the road for sure. Take care, Pat



FuzzyO	Sep 5 2013, 07:42 AM Post #27
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	I have a friend who is a sergeant. He did not have to be tasered, the demonstration during training was done to a volunteer.



Durgan	Sep 5 2013, 09:23 AM Post #28
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	FuzzyO Sep 5 2013, 07:42 AM I have a friend who is a sergeant. He did not have to be tasered, the demonstration during training was done to a volunteer. Anybody who would volunteer to be tasered would have to be stupid. True cop material.



wildie	Sep 5 2013, 04:02 PM Post #29
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	friendshipgal Sep 5 2013, 02:03 AM The report I just heard on the news says the report the police got was of a woman chasing a man with a meat cleaver. The woman is suffering from dementia but as the report said, what would you have said if the woman had wounded or even killed the man. Sounds as if she was trying to poison him with a meat cleaver by giving him(s) arsanick!



Alli	Sep 7 2013, 04:56 AM Post #30
Mistress, House of Cats Posts: 4,732 Group: Member Member #711 Joined: March 30, 2010	just craziness going on My son said he is more worried at being tasered than stopped and being randomly profiled , now he said they will taser first ask questions later No excuse in tasering this 80 year old woman!!



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