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Another story of excessive tazing

(posted by jackson)

I have trouble imagining anything more excessive than this. Lindsay Beyerstein posts “Cops tase 82-year-old heart patient in bed“:

RCMP officers used a taser to subdue an 82-year-old man in his hospital bed in Kamloops, B.C. last week. The man had become delusional and pulled a knife out of his pocket, police and nurses say. When he refused to drop the knife, the officers tased him three times.

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4 Responses to “Another story of excessive tazing”

  1. Natasha Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    Why didn’t the nurses know some techniques to calm him down? And if they did, then why didn’t they use them?

    Christ. I especially dislike reading stories about police abuse like this. And you know there’s probably a legion of people out there defending this action.

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  3. jackson Says:
    May 13th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    Natasha, I agree, it is astonishing that the nurses could not calm an 82 year old heart patient.

  4. Mona Says:
    May 13th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    For a time, both I and my adult son worked with a program that provided foster home services to the mentally ill, some of whom were retarded, and some violent. Every member of the direct care staff was required to be trained annually in a system for restraining violent clients in a manner safe for the client as well as the staff.

    Of course, if there was a dangerous weapon involved, the protocol was to call the cops since the restraint training wasn’t as extensive at would be the case for a psych hospital. Calling the cops happened a lot. No one, however, was ever tased. Brought down to the ground and cuffed, yes, but not tased.

    Unless this knife-wielding 82-year-old was as fit as Hulk Hogan likely will be at that age, tasing is just outrageous.

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