Canada: Cops taser mother with kids on her lap!

[Joanne98]

A woman in the Northwest Territories says RCMP jolted her with a Taser while child protection workers apprehended her children in Yellowknife last year.

The woman, who cannot be identified, told CBC News that two of her youngest children, aged one and five, were sitting on her lap when a Yellowknife RCMP officer used the electric stun gun on her.

At the time of the March 2008 incident, RCMP had forced their way into her Yellowknife home to help social workers apprehend her children, the woman said.

"I still wouldn't let my kids go, so they did it to me again," she said.

"That's when I was in shock, I guess, because I couldn't move after that. And then they took my kids."

The woman complained to the RCMP, but she said a police investigation concluded that the officer who used the Taser on her had acted appropriately.

No one from the RCMP was available for comment when contacted by CBC News earlier this week.

Seeks apology
The woman said social workers had told her she could not have her children back unless she stayed away from their father, an alleged drug dealer.

The woman said she had split up with the father a year earlier, but said he was in the house on the day police arrived.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/01/14/nwt-taser.html

[Joanne98]

1. Scotland: Cops taser 89 year old man

Llandudno: A mentally disturbed 89-year-old man who escaped from his care home was blasted by police with a 50,000-volt Taser when he threatened to kill himself.

Officers took action when the pensioner produced a shard of glass and claimed he was going to cut his throat on Saturday.
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/-Mentally-ill-OAP-escapee.4873391.jp

[MADem]

2. Jesus, Canada....Scotland!

So we're not the only assholes in the world.

I can't imagine why the MOTHER used her children as a shield, though. If the social workers have come in, and you're hanging on to the kids and not letting them go, and then a cop is called, and is waving a taser at you, you don't hang on to the kids in a futile gesture. You know how this shit is going to end, so you give 'em up and use legal measures to regain custody.

And while I believe that kids should stay with parents when possible, that environment didn't sound too nurturing for them. I also suspect the woman was lying her ass off about her relationship with the baby-daddy.

She's got the kids back now, I guess time will tell if drug-dealing dad turns up again.

[sakabatou]

3. And the "crime" was...?

[anonymous171]

4. This would have never happened if they had been armed. nt

[provis99]

5. you want child abusing criminals to be armed?

Gun loonery knows no logic.