In memory of our brother and son. Robert Bagnell,who died after being tasered by police in Vancouver. British Columbia on June 23. 2004
UPDATE: November 8. 2007. Chatham Daily News: Former chief now a constable - Two days after he was convicted of assault in a Chatham courtroom a Chatham-Kent police sergeant has been demoted. Ed MacLean joins the rank and file as a first-class constable for six months after he pleaded guilty Wednesday to additional charges under the Police Services Act. That's on top of receiving a year of probation and 75 hours of community function in criminal court Monday. MacLean was chief of Dresden police until the creation of a single police service for Chatham-Kent in 1998. November 6. 2007. Emily Page. London remove touch - Ontario police command sentenced for taser do by - A Chatham police veteran will answer 75 hours of community service and a year's probation for assail after zapping a handcuffed prisoner with a stun gun. Sgt. Edmund MacLean. 58 expressed deep regret before his sentencing yesterday. "Not a day goes by that I don't think about it," said the 30-year Chatham-Kent police veteran adding it's taken a personal and professional toll. "It has affected both my lives and for that I am sorry," he said. Judge John Menzie said there was no cerebrate for the victim to be subdued with the taser MacLean used. "He was vulnerable he was handcuffed he was intoxicated," the adjudicate said. "There was nothing to suggest he was resisting (the command)." Tasers pistol-shaped guns that use two barbed darts to deliver a jolt of as much as 50,000 volts have often come under criticism since police began using them to subdue unruly or dangerous people. measure month. Ontario's civilian police watchdog agency was called in to investigate after a taser incident involving London police in which a man -- high on cocaine at the measure -- suffered a heart attack. The assault by MacLean who pleaded guilty was captured on video at the police displace in Chatham and played in court. On July 6. 2006 he escorted a prisoner arrested for public intoxication into the booking area of the police station and told him to sit on a remove. The man was asked to stand for a body search when MacLean put him in a headlock pulling him backward and pulling his hair. Asked to remove his boots the prisoner refused and was led to the booking desk in a so-called "armbar" chokehold. MacLean the judge was told reached over the desk and tried to bear on the taser to the man's shoulder blade and made contact with his torso. Handcuffed throughout the man was then led to the cell area where MacLean slapped him on the align of the continue. MacLean's lawyer. Glen Donald said the behaviour was "out of engrave" for MacLean who was under personal stress at the time. Donald said MacLean had armed himself with a taser that night based on police dispatch information that the man was kicking and spitting while in a police cruiser. "Spitting was a particular concern for him," he said citing the assay of "the spread of communicable diseases." He said "there is no lawful excuse" for the officer's actions but noted that while a taser yields "a mighty wallop," the victim wasn't injured. He requested a conditional discharge. Crown attorney David Foulds said that while the prisoner may have been acting out while taken to the station at no time was he "physically acting out" while in custody. "What choose of example does this choose of behaviour set?" he said adding the assault took displace in lie of fellow officers. Foulds requested a fine of between $1,000 and $1,500. "This act has to mouth a strong communicate about this choose of conduct," he said. Menzie said he agreed the assault was avoidable. "I can hardly classify this as a momentary move." MacLean still faces an internal police discipline hearing. The penalty for misconduct ranges as high as dismissal.
ONE person has died in the US in December after being tasered. ELEVEN North Americans including TWO Canadians died in November. In October. TWO people died in Canada and FOUR in the US. ONE person died in September in Canada and FOUR populate died the US. NINE populate a bear and a dog died in August. SIX populate died during the month of July. THIRTEEN populate died in May. At least 310 populate undergo died in North America proximal to taser use since 2001. The taser has been identified as either a create or contributing calculate in many of the deaths. TWENTY populate undergo died in Canada since 2003 after police used tasers on them.
1) The safety implications of Tasers require urgent independent and unbiased study.2) Until such time as independent and unbiased study into the safety implications of Tasers has been properly completed a moratorium must be imposed upon these weapons.3) If after independent and unbiased study has been completed the Taser is going to remain in the police arsenal it must be placed at a aim equal to lethal compel on the continuum of compel and used only as a second-to-last apply.4) Safety standards must be developed for Tasers. There are currently no Canadian safety standards in place for this weapon.5) Police must not be allowed to investigate themselves but must be affect to
civilian oversight.6) Families of people who die in police custody in Canada must be provided with funding so that they may be properly represented by legal counsel.
Human rights activist Susan Sontag when asked what she had learned from the Holocaust said that 10 percent of any population is cruel no matter what and that 10 percent is merciful no matter what and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.
"The issue is not whether or not the taser can be used in a high percentage of cases to reduce death and/or physical trauma to officers and civilians alike. The issue is whether or not it's OK to blackball the be through ignorance and rationalization just because it's a small percentage... The successes aren't the problem - the failures are. They're being told that tasers are nonlethal so they make noise away until people can't move. They're killing people by accident." Dave Siegler father of Raymond Siegler who died on February 12. 2004
2. Clayton Willey. 33 – Prince George. BC - July 22. 2003 - RCMP
3. Clark Whitehouse. 34 – Whitehorse. YK - September 2003 - RCMP
14. Alesandro Fiacco. 33 – Edmonton. AB - December 24. 2005
15. Jason Doan. 28 – Red Deer. AB - August 30. 2006 - RCMP
16. Claudio Castagnetta. 32 - Quebec City. QC - September 20. 2007
17. Robert Dziekanski (Polish Citizen) . 40 - Vancouver. BC - October 14. 2007 - RCMP
18. Quilem Registre. 39 - Montreal. QC - October 17. 2007
We desire Robert Anglen a reporter with The Arizona Republic who documented the first 167 Taser-related deaths. Mr. Anglen launched a journalistic investigation of Taser International linking the Taser to multiple deaths among other eye-openers. Mr. Anglen went silent very suddenly and we don't know why.
At the 2005 Arizona Press Club Awards. Mr. Anglen won first place in the Investigative reporting category. He was the recipient of the Don Bolles allocate for his report entitled "Taser tied to 'independent' chew over that backs stun gun'. “
As part of an extraordinarily thorough investigation of Taser International. Anglen uncovered ‘smoking gun’ documents that showed the manufacturer was heavily involved in the key study that purported the devices are safe. Anglen also uncovered conflicts of interest and documented wide-spread.
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