Linda Nguyen (Regina Leader-Post) - RCMP in Kamloops, B.C., are calling their decision to use a Taser on a man brandishing a butcher knife earlier this week as an example of a “positive way” to use the weapon.
Mounties arrived at a massage parlour Monday night after receiving a frantic 9-1-1 cellphone call from a female employee. She told police that a man she was acquainted with had just entered the parlour with a butcher knife and threatened to kill her and another woman inside, Const. Randi Love said Wednesday.
“The suspect, bloodied by a number of self-inflicted cuts, entered the business,” Love said. “He confronted the woman who had previously rejected the man’s desire for romantic intentions. When he threatened to kill her and himself, she locked herself in the bathroom.”
The other woman hid in another locked room. By the time police arrived, the man, 55-year-old Frederick Mark Daley, had locked himself in the massage parlour’s kitchen.
“The responding officers called him out of the room and he emerged holding a butcher knife threatening to stab himself,” Love said. “While the officers held him at gunpoint, he yelled at them to shoot him.”
She said the man began to make attempts at stabbing himself and threatening the officers with the knife, all in an effort to get the officers to shoot him.
“The officer with the Taser told him to put down the knife several times, to get down on the ground but he failed to comply with those instructions,” Love said.
“It all happened within minutes,” Love said.
He has been charged with a slew of criminal offences and a psychiatric assessment has been ordered.
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1 RCMP Watch // Mar 1, 2008 at 09:35
TASER International, Inc. Press Release:
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Use TASER ECD to Avoid Tragedy in Kamloops
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 29, 2008 - TASER International, Inc., a market leader in advanced electronic control devices, released the following News Alert:
According to an article in the February 27, 2008 edition of the Vancouver Sun, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are crediting the use of a TASER electronic control device (ECD) for avoiding the use of deadly force late Monday in Kamloops.
According to the article, RCMP officers faced an armed and distraught man who stormed into a massage parlor threatening to kill a female employee. He repeatedly said he was going to harm himself and yelled at the RCMP officers to shoot him.
“Faced with the option of discharging their pistols or using a TASER electronic control device (ECD) to subdue the distraught man, police opted to use the stun gun. One officer positioned himself to safely activate the TASER and the man was subdued without injury or risk,” said RCMP Staff Sergeant Grant Learned.
Two women at the scene at the time of the incident were unharmed. The parlor’s owner praised the RCMP for the way officers handled the situation and credited officers for capturing the man without injuring him.
It was reported that RMCP Constable Michelle Toews said the incident is textbook case of when a TASER should be used since the other option constables had was to shoot the man.”If we hadn’t had the TASER (ECD) we would have found ourselves in much more difficult circumstances,” Toews said.
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2 Simon // Mar 1, 2008 at 21:06
What do the people who are calling for Tasers to be taken away from the police have to say about this one?
Or this other one: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=2580b7d9-a2c7-410d-8eda-76fa267e382f&k=84229
Tasers are valuable…they save lives. We are lucky they exist and every police officer should have one.
3 Gendai // Mar 2, 2008 at 11:55
This one is good
Protecting message parlors now are we.
That should now get them free passes…
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