RCMP Watch

Allison Cross (Vancouver Sun) - A man is dead after choking on a golfball-sized bag of crack-cocaine as Surrey RCMP tried to arrest him, making him the third person to die in their custody in the past six weeks.
Brandon Whitelaw, 22, was riding in a car with another man at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday when [...]

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Chad Skelton, Vancouver, B.C. (Vancouver Sun) - Most shootings by RCMP members do not meet the force’s own standards for the use of deadly force, according to an internal RCMP report obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
According to the report, of the 30 RCMP shootings nationwide in 2006 (the most recent year for which data was [...]

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Lyn Cockburn (Edmunton Sun) -  How many have to die? Are 10 enough? How about 15? What if the number reaches 20?
It has and for all we know somewhere in Canada the 21st person is about to die after police use a stun gun on him.
The 20th was 17-year-old Michael Langan in Winnipeg who on [...]

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Winnipeg, MB (Canadian Press) - A 17-year-old youth who died after being hit by a Taser was a suspect in a theft, police said Wednesday.
An officer deployed an “electronic control device” when the teenager refused to comply with repeated directions to put down a knife, said Const. Jacqueline Chaput.
“That poses a threat to the officers, [...]

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(CTV.ca News Staff) -  A man died Tuesday after police used a Taser to subdue him, in what is believed to be the first such case in Winnipeg.
Witnesses told CTV Winnipeg the unidentified man, reportedly in his 20s, had been wielding a knife. But police spokesperson Const. Jacqueline Chaput would not confirm that report.
She said [...]

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(Windsor Star) - A 37-year-old man was found dead Saturday in an RCMP holding cell in northern Manitoba.
Police said the man was arrested for public intoxication Friday evening and taken to the detachment in Thompson, Man., where he was placed in a cell.
The next morning he was discovered dead.
His body has been sent to Winnipeg [...]

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(CBC News) - RCMP officers involved in the Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski were also affected by the tragic incident and in need of support, B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said Friday.
Campbell made the comments a day after CBC News published internal RCMP e-mails that indicated the premier was “highly complimentary” of the police force, despite [...]

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Surrey, B.C. (Vancouver Sun) - A bus passenger who was injured while resisting arrest by Surrey RCMP has now died.
Police report the man, who was arrested at 72nd Avenue just west of 134th Street on Friday night, has died in Surrey Memorial Hospital.
At a news conference in Surrey this afternoon, police reported the man had [...]

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Bill Phillips (Prince George Free Press) - Media reports that the woman who died in RCMP custody Thursday killed herself in the cells are premature.
“We are not able to confirm that (the death was a suicide),” Const. Annie Linteau, E Division Strategic Communication Section, said Friday.
The Prince George Citizen quoted Sgt. Tom Bethune as saying [...]

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TASER International Press Release:
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. USA - TASER International, Inc. (Nasdaq:TASR), a market leader in advanced electronic control devices (ECDs), issued the following NEWS ALERT:
According to an article in the June 26, 2008 edition of The Globe and Mail, a Nanaimo RCMP officer used a TASER electronic control device Saturday morning to save a man [...]

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