Teen Tasered by Ottawa Police

Teen Tasered by Ottawa Police
Josh Pringle
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

The Ottawa Police Service is defending the use of a Taser on a teenager last week.

Police say officers found a 17-year-old boy "acting in a strange manner" on a street near Rideau High School last Thursday. Staff. Sgt. Peter Couillard says officers incapacitated the teen with a Taser and took him into custody.

The teen was reportedly acting erratically, running through traffic near the school and asking cars to run over him.

Couillard calls it a "very zero incident", adding "from the police standpoint, it's just an average everyday call."

Couillard told The Canadian Press if Ottawa Police issued a news release every time officers used a Taser, "we'd be writing them 10 times a day."

(Interesting... The RCMP inquiry said to only use a taser when their life is in serious danger... but I guess the Ottawa Police know better eh? So now we permit tasering of mentally ill people, adults and youth! HOORAY! Maybe soon we can have have those bark collars be mandatory for all people... the cops would have the remotes! )-W