Second Taser-Related Death In Canada This Week

by Rob Walker | October 18, 2007 at 03:30 pm | 391 views | 2 comments

Yet more fuel on the fire that is the taser debate: another person died this week after being tasered by Canadian police, this time a 39-year-old Quebec man.

A 39-year-old man who was tasered by Montreal police Sunday died in a Montreal hospital Wednesday night.

The man, identified in news reports as Quilem Registre, was stopped by Montreal police officers about 9:30 p.m. Sunday on suspicion he was driving drunk.

Police contend he became aggressive and officers used the Taser, which emits an electric shock, to restrain him.

Because the man was harmed during a police operation, Quebec government policy dictates an outside police force must investigate. The Quebec provincial police force is leading this investigation.

His death comes only days after a foreign man travelling from Poland died after being tasered at Vancouver airport.