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	<title>RCMP Watch &#187; Taser</title>
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		<title>RCMP justified to Taser and shoot N.L. man, Halifax police review concludes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RCMP justified to Taser and shoot N.L. man, Halifax police review concludes
(CP) – 9 hours ago
FLEUR DE LYS, N.L. — A review by Halifax police has concluded that the RCMP was justified in its decision to Taser and shoot a man during an altercation in Newfoundland last year.
In August, the RCMP responded to a report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP to test Taser cameras</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-to-test-taser-cameras/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Canadian Press) &#8211; RCMP officers in Kelowna, B.C., and Moncton, N.B., are testing two kinds of cameras that will record Taser firings during six-month field trials.
Included in the tests is the Taser Cam, an accessory for newer-model stun guns made by Taser International, which supplies the RCMP. Also to be tested is the VIDMIC, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP drafts wide-ranging changes to Taser policy following critical reports</title>
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		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-drafts-wide-ranging-changes-to-taser-policy-following-critical-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RCMP drafts wide-ranging changes to Taser policy following critical reports
By Jim Bronskill (CP) – 4 hours ago
OTTAWA — The RCMP plans a sweeping overhaul of its Taser policy following recommendations from inquiries prompted by the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski.
An internal briefing note obtained by The Canadian Press says the Mounties&#8217; policy centre on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taser not cause of death in police struggle</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/taser-not-cause-of-death-in-police-struggle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/taser-not-cause-of-death-in-police-struggle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(CBC News) &#8211; Cocaine, not a stun gun, killed a southern Alberta man involved in a struggle with RCMP officers, a medical examiner has concluded.
Grant William Prentice, 40, a resident of the small city of Brooks, southeast of Calgary, died on May 6 in the local hospital after a police officer stunned him with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP involved in Dziekanski death won&#8217;t be spared fault finding: Appeal Court</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-involved-in-dziekanski-death-wont-be-spared-fault-finding-appeal-court/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-involved-in-dziekanski-death-wont-be-spared-fault-finding-appeal-court/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attempted Cover Up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tamsyn Burgmann, Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) &#8211; Four Mounties who challenged a B.C. public inquiry&#8217;s jurisdiction won&#8217;t be spared from potentially being found at fault in the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski.
Judge Thomas Braidwood will keep his option to find misconduct against the RCMP officers involved, should that be where evidence leads him, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP slammed over tasering of teenaged girl</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-slammed-over-tasering-of-teenaged-girl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Toronto Sun) &#8211; The RCMP’s public complaints commission has condemned an officer’s use of a taser on a handcuffed 15-year-old girl who was being restrained by four guards.
Commission chairman Paul Kennedy denounced the use of the taser – and the followup investigation by the RCMP – in an incident in Yellowknife in March 2007. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tasers should be banned</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/tasers-should-be-banned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/tasers-should-be-banned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Staples, Fredericton, N.B. (Times Transcript) &#8211; The writing may be on the wall for taser use in Canada, says a criminology professor at St. Thomas University.
Michael Boudreau said if the findings of The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, which examined the use of an RCMP taser against Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver&#8217;s airport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP watchdog slams officers over Dziekanski case</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-watchdog-slams-officers-over-dziekanski-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-watchdog-slams-officers-over-dziekanski-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(CTV.ca News Staff) &#8211; Four RCMP officers who came upon an agitated Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport failed to respond appropriately and their use of a Taser against him was &#8220;premature and inappropriate,&#8221; says the head of the RCMP&#8217;s independent watchdog.
Paul Kennedy, chairman of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, issued his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP watchdog to release report on Dziekanski&#8217;s death</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-watchdog-to-release-report-on-dziekanskis-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/rcmp-watchdog-to-release-report-on-dziekanskis-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RCMP Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Canadian Press) &#8211; The independent body in charge of keeping watch over the RCMP will release its report this week into the death of Robert Dziekanski, assessing the conduct of the four officers who repeatedly stunned him with a Taser at Vancouver&#8217;s airport.
The report by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP will also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver airport denies any responsibility in Dziekanski&#8217;s death</title>
		<link>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/vancouver-airport-denies-any-responsibility-in-dziekanskis-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rcmpwatch.com/vancouver-airport-denies-any-responsibility-in-dziekanskis-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Keller, Vancouver, B.C. (Canadian Press) &#8211; Vancouver International Airport, where Robert Dziekanski spent the last 10 hours of his life lost, confused and unable to communicate with anyone before his fatal confrontation with RCMP, has denied any responsibility for his death in its defence of a lawsuit filed by the Polish immigrant&#8217;s mother.
Dziekanski died [...]]]></description>
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