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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 who had slashed his wrist multiple times and stated that he wanted to die. The incident occurred outside a Nanaimo motel.
The article quotes Nanaimo RCMP spokesman Gary O’Brien commenting on the deployment of the TASER device, “It was an excellent deployment and an excellent example of how these things can save lives.”
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Should have used the batons and pepper spray. 5 will get you 10 that he slashed crosswise which everybody know you cannot bleed to death from in any short period of time.
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A collapse was imminent due to exsanguination.
That’s what this layman thinks. Not as stated by the expert first responder.
“It was an excellent deployment and an excellent example of how these things can save lives.”
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Amid the growing taser controversy, one man’s life is saved by the device
BRENNAN CLARKE
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
June 26, 2008 at 5:26 AM EDT
VICTORIA — In a week when RCMP faced growing scrutiny over taser-related deaths, Nanaimo police are pointing to the recent use of a stun gun on a suicidal man outside a local motel as an example of the weapon’s life-saving potential.
The man had slashed his wrists at a Nanaimo motel.
“The suspect was losing large quantities of blood and the officers came to the conclusion he could cause either death or grievous harm to himself,” Nanaimo RCMP spokesman Gary O’Brien said. “It was an excellent deployment and an excellent example of how these things can save lives.”
The incident began around 8 a.m. on Saturday, when an RCMP officer saw an “obviously despondent” man slashing at his wrists with a knife as he walked down the street.
The officer called for backup and tried to negotiate from a safe distance with the distraught man as he walked across the street to the parking lot of the Port o’ Call motel.
“He kept saying he wanted to die and he was slashing at his wrists,” Constable O’Brien said, reading from the police report.
Police reinforcements continued “trying to have a dialogue” with the man as he retreated up the motel steps onto a second-floor balcony.
He leaned on the balcony long enough for a pool of blood to form on the concrete below, raised the knife to his throat, then began to walk away from an officer with a taser.
“The taser was deployed, the probes hit him in the back of the chest and upper thigh. We were able to recover the knife and handcuff the suspect,” Constable O’Brien said. “The suspect did not suffer any injuries except those he inflicted on himself.”
The Nanaimo incident occurred amid controversy about police use of tasers.
Last week, the chair of the RCMP public complaints commission issued a report urging the force to impose stricter guidelines and improve reporting of taser usage.
On Monday, 36-year-old Jeffrey Mark Marreel of Ontario died after police jolted him with a taser while responding to a disturbance in a small beach town along the shore of Lake Erie.
Mr. Marreel’s death is the 20th taser-related fatality in Canada since 2001, according to Amnesty International.
The man in the Nanaimo incident, an Alberta native, is battling a cocaine addiction and financial difficulties related to a failed business venture, Constable O’Brien said.
He was arrested under the provisions of B.C.’s mental health act and is undergoing treatment for addiction and mental health issues.
Special to The Globe and Mail