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Only a day after the Ontario government announced permitting all frontline officers to use stun guns, a suspicious incident was reported where an 80-year-old Mississauga woman was sent to the hospital with a fractured hip due to being tasered by Peel Regional Police. The province’s police watchdog, The Special Investigation’s Unit, is looking into the incident that took place at around 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, when officers at Thomas St. and Erin Mills Pkwy responded to reports of a woman walking along the road.
It was explained that all three officers spoke with the woman on scene, but according to the SIU, the woman was hit with a stun gun by one of the officers and fell to the ground. Soon after, she was rushed to Credit Valley Hospital and treated for a fractured hip as well as other injuries. The decision to allow all frontline officers to carry stun guns was made in light of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim’s death, who was shot eight times and then tasered during a confrontation with Toronto police. However, the Ontario government claims that the decision was being deliberated upon for months and refutes they were prompted by Yatim’s death.
Toronto police and Ontario’s ombudsman, André Marin, are both investigating the incident of Yatim’s shooting, aimed at determining how police uses force to deal with emotionally disturbed people. Police chiefs in Ontario have long argued that Tasers provide an effective non-lethal alternative to firearms, though it was not until recently that all frontline officers were allowed to carry Tasers.
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