One more for the Taser pile…
Ontario’s Special Investigation Unit has been called in to investigate the death of a man from Brampton, Ont., who died Wednesday morning after being jolted with a stun gun while in police custody.
The SIU is a provincial agency that investigates cases of serious injury or death involving police.
Sean Reilly, a 42-year-old carpenter, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon at his home and charged with assault with a weapon.
Peel Regional Police took him into custody at a police station on Dixie Road without incident.
At that point, according to an SIU statement, police say Reilly got into a “struggle” with four officers in or near a holding cell. They used a Taser on him, trying to incapacitate him with an electric shock.
So… he went in alive and came out dead. Four on one and they had to resort to electro-shock torture.
As of today, that’s nineteen Canadians who’ve been murdered via the Taser. It is time to ban the use of these things. When a child cannot behave and throws his toys, we take them away. Given the lack of respect for human life and basic humanity shown by Canada’s police officers in regards to the use of this weapon, they deserve to be treated the same.
Servin' and Protectin' via the gun barrel, seriously