Fact Police of West Vancouver service investigation into the circumstances that led to a boy of 11 years is stunned with a Taser by a gendarme at Prince George, BC.
RCMP in Prince George, said Friday that the device was used on the boy after a 37-year-old man was allegedly stabbed by the boy on Thursday evening.
Police found the boy in a home nearby group and, when the boy came out, he was shocked with electric pistol.
The RCMP would not release any new information on the case of the boy on Saturday and said that the incident is under investigation by the Department of Police of West Vancouver, whose officials will fly at Prince George on Monday.
David MacAlister, an associate professor in the school of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, studied the policies of the police on the use of Taser guns, or conductive energy weapons.
"It does seems not right," said MacAlister. "Canadian law do not even possess those persons who are aged less than 12 criminally responsible."
Alister said that it was difficult to know immediately why police used Taser, but, to his knowledge, the boy is now the youngest ever to be shocked with electric pistol by the RCMP to the Canada, which is a medical concern.
He said "Braidwood [Thomas] Commissioner in his report that is concerned by the police using the Taser on people who are particularly thin built,".
"The concern it is that there is a thin layer between the skin of an individual and their hearts, which would obviously be of concern when we are dealing with a teenager".
Police said the child was taken to the hospital for evaluation after receiving, and that man is recovering from his injuries. The boy is still in custody.
Prince George under review
On Saturday, David Eby, Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association, said that his group had concerns about the police action.
"What situation would justify tasering a 11 year old child?". "It should be fairly remarkable circumstances and should be a serious threat to the life of the agent or the involved public life".
Eby said that his group would like to learn more about this incident and other incidents of the use force in the city of the North of the Colombia of British Columbia. Police services in Prince George has already attracted the attention of the defenders of civil rights, he said.
In February, the association published a report of review of the RCMP in Colombia - British North who painted a worrying picture of Prince George.
"Prince George has been on our radar for a long time," Eby said.
"This is the city where Clayton Alvin Willey died." He was hog-tied. He was hit several times. "He had broken ribs and we found through this case that there were a number of other taserings high - profile".
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