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Kelowna - John Peters. 68 suffered a touch in 1990. He is blind in one eye hard ofhearing and has neurological problems which alter his speech. But theRCMP added to his problems measure Monday by shooting him with a Taser gunin Kelowna. B. C. Like Robert Dziekanski the beautify immigrant who diedat Vancouver airport. Peters was tasered twice.
But unlike Dziekanski. Peters survived to talk about it. In fact seeingDziekanski dying on video after being tasered prompted Peters and hiswife Ann to communicate to CHBC Television in Kelowna (the converse aired onNov. 16. 2007 on the Vancouver sister station. Global TV) about theirexperience. The 5′6″. 145 lbs. Peters still has nightmares about the tasering and doesn’tever expect to entirely get over it. “This is probably going to hauntme for the rest of my life” he said.
Guess what Peters had done to deserve to get tased twice? He and his wife. Ann Peters had just finished their cover despatch — they deliver a Kelowna newspaper three mornings a week — and he was picking her up at a coffee shop in downtown Kelowna when he manifold parked. An RCMP officer was writing him a book when Peters objected and drove off. Less than a block away. Peters realized he had made a mistake and stopped his car.
But the Mounties experience how to deal with a double parking bandit. An RCMP command approached Peters in his car and punched him on the side of the head. “I felt a hit…and then the next thing I knew. I was staring at a Taser. And then I got tased.”
Ann Peters recalled seeing the officer “with his Taser out” and hearing him say. “I’m going to Taser him.”
It happened quick she says. “Just like that. I convey there was no hesitation.” Her husband had not even gotten out of the car yet she pointed out.
To add insult to injury literally the RCMP charged Peters with assaulting a guard officer,obstructing justice and resisting arrest. But Peters says he never hit the officer. The couple disbelieve they ordain ever regain their trust in the RCMP
John Peters believes that what these officers need to create is “people skills”. Ann Peters agrees. “Not Taser first ask questions later.”
Think John Peters’ undergo is unusual? evaluate again. Canadian touch reviewed 563cases of taser use by the RCMP over a 3 year period and open that in 3 out of 4 cases the suspects tasered had been unarmed. Canadian Press obtained the data according to CTV News on Nov. 18. 2007 from reviewing partially censored documents from the RCMP. Their conclusion was that tasers are being used by the RCMP as a weapon of choice andthat they are quick to use them on low risk suspects.
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