A man is in hospital and may lose one of his eyes after being hit by a police Taser over the weekend in Toronto.
The province's Special Investigations Unit has been called in to review the incident.
SIU spokesman Frank Phillips said Toronto officers were called to the scene of a domestic dispute in the St. Clair and Dufferin area on Saturday morning.
Phillips said a man who left the scene was confronted by police along St. Clair Avenue.
"The male was quite agitated [and] had been drinking. The officers on scene requested a sergeant attend the scene, and after further interaction with this gentleman, the sergeant deployed the Taser. And one of the probes struck the man in the eye.… we're treating this as a serious injury," said Phillips.
The Taser's hook-like prongs embedded in the man's eye and then delivered a blast of electricity.
The SIU is looking into whether the police were justified in firing the weapon and what caused the man to be hit in the eye.
The unit is called in any time there is a serious injury to a civilian involving police.
if he was hit in the eye, maybe it was the really the sergeant who fired the taser who had been drinking.
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Oct-31-2007 11:50
Yohan
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Kitchener, Ont, Soviet Canuckistan
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Originally posted by MikeyN
if he was hit in the eye, maybe it was the really the sergeant who fired the taser who had been drinking.
Or the drunken dude could have been swaying radically and lowered his head when the sgt fired the taser.
I'm very curious to see the whole story.
But when it involves a drunken man and a cop, well, stuff happens
Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny.
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Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded
Oct-31-2007 12:06
exstasie
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Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Toronto/Sauga, Canada
OMG...can you imagine?
I am cringing just thinking about how painful that would be!
I think the SIU needs a TV show! They'd have some interesting stuff for us to watch lol.
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Oct-31-2007 12:24
CAKE
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: At Zone
I'm just thinking about when Johnny Knoxville did the teaser test and they needed players to get the ends of the teaser out of his chest ..... and this dude got one in the eye ouchy !!!
