Canadian Cops Taser Transit Riders for Not Paying Fares
ROD MICKLEBURGH
THe Globe and Mail
April 17, 2008
VANCOUVER — The country’s only armed transit police have been tasering passengers who try to avoid paying fares.
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According to documents provided in response to a Freedom of Information request, police patrolling public transit in the Metro Vancouver area have used tasers 10 times in the past 18 months, including five occasions when victims had been accosted for riding free.
In one incident, a non-paying passenger was tasered after he held onto a railing on the SkyTrain platform and refused to let go.
“After several warnings to the subject to stop resisting arrest and the subject failing to comply with the officers’ commands, the taser was deployed and the subject was taken into control,” said the report provided by TransLink, the region’s transit authority.
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