RCMP shocked 16 people five times or more last year

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Despite a dramatic drop in the RCMP's use of stun guns in 2008, the force is still zapping some suspects five times or more with the controversial weapon.

Mounties shocked at least 16 suspects with a Taser five or more times, according to analysis done by CBC/Radio-Canada and The Canadian Press of RCMP reports released through access to information requests. Ten of the cases topped five stuns.


Manual for Tasers says to only stun them twice. Don't actually have one , but it's in the news somewhere.

This is getting to be less and less about how safe a Taser is and more and more about the Cops giving the general public the finger.


"As we saw in the case of Mr. Dziekanski, [being stunned five times] was a major contributing factor potentially to his death," said federal Liberal public safety critic Mark Holland.


Five times ? You stunned that old man five times and there were four of you standing around and you were all bigger than him ?


Holland echoed the concerns of his NDP counterpart, calling such extreme use of stun guns "egregiously wrong."


Translation : It's all perfectly legal. We don't like it , but it's perfectly legal for them to taser you until you die. They don't even get a slap on the wrist for it.


A CBC News investigation recently revealed that the RCMP softened parts of its stun-gun policy by deleting a key sentence ordering officers not to cycle the stun gun repeatedly or for more than 15 to 20 seconds at a time, unless the officer faced special circumstances.

That policy change, made this February, happened despite assurances from RCMP Commissioner William Elliott before a parliamentary committee that the force had adjusted its policy last June to curb multiple use of the stun gun.


KEEP ON ZAPPING ! IT SAVES LIVES ! IGNORE THE PILES OF BODIES EVERYWHERE ! THEY'RE NOT OUR BODIES THEY'RE SOMEONE ELSES BODIES ! (Except for that one cop who got it in the head and has permanent brain damage)

Makes you proud , doesn't it ? To see our thugs with badges in action.