Comments on: Man dies after struggle with officer http://www.rcmpwatch.com/man-dies-after-struggle-with-officer/ Who is keeping them accountable? Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:35:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Deepthroat http://www.rcmpwatch.com/man-dies-after-struggle-with-officer/comment-page-1/#comment-2699 Deepthroat Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:43:52 +0000 http://www.rcmpwatch.com/?p=1324#comment-2699 Maybe the female cop should have used a taser on him. Seems that those batons and pepper spray are causing death. Maybe the female cop should have used a taser on him. Seems that those batons and pepper spray are causing death.

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]]> By: RCMP Watch http://www.rcmpwatch.com/man-dies-after-struggle-with-officer/comment-page-1/#comment-2697 RCMP Watch Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:27:51 +0000 http://www.rcmpwatch.com/?p=1324#comment-2697 Man dies after fighting with female Surrey RCMP officer Jack Keating (Vancouver Province) A man who was pepper-sprayed and struck with a baton during a fight with a Mountie has died. Investigators with the RCMP Public Complaints Commission and police homicide detectives are looking into the death of David James Stitt, 46, who was hurt during an altercation on Tuesday. Stitt, who was not known to police, died yesterday in hospital where he had been in critical condition. Stitt lived in the 13500-block Crescent Road in south Surrey where the altercation took place. Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team revealed last night that a female police officer struck Stitt "in the lower body" with a baton after using pepper spray on him when he "was non-compliant with police commands and, in fact, became non-co-operative and resistant." "He was eventually arrested and placed in handcuffs with the assistance of two civilians and an additional officer that arrived on scene," said Carr. The cause of death has not been determined, he added. Carr said the role of the complaints commission investigators "is to oversee and ensure that the investigation is moving along in an unbiased and impartial manner and it's done in real time." He said the female officer has not been suspended. [More...] Man dies after fighting with female Surrey RCMP officer
Jack Keating (Vancouver Province)

A man who was pepper-sprayed and struck with a baton during a fight with a Mountie has died.

Investigators with the RCMP Public Complaints Commission and police homicide detectives are looking into the death of David James Stitt, 46, who was hurt during an altercation on Tuesday.

Stitt, who was not known to police, died yesterday in hospital where he had been in critical condition.

Stitt lived in the 13500-block Crescent Road in south Surrey where the altercation took place.

Cpl. Dale Carr of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team revealed last night that a female police officer struck Stitt “in the lower body” with a baton after using pepper spray on him when he “was non-compliant with police commands and, in fact, became non-co-operative and resistant.”

“He was eventually arrested and placed in handcuffs with the assistance of two civilians and an additional officer that arrived on scene,” said Carr.

The cause of death has not been determined, he added.

Carr said the role of the complaints commission investigators “is to oversee and ensure that the investigation is moving along in an unbiased and impartial manner and it’s done in real time.”

He said the female officer has not been suspended. [More...]

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