Then watch this video of two people resisting arrest for using a stolen credit card. They try to escape in ridiculously futile ways.
The best thing? Nobody gets shot. This would have been a tragedy in the US, but hey, the kids are white, and it’s in Canada.
Second best thing: watch for it at the 2 minute mark.
Thanks for the laugh .
Holy shit, the 2 minutes mark is the mother of all plot twists!!!
Bah! They stole that from The Office.
Refreshingly comical and lacking in tragedy. What does disturb me is the lack of fire exits in the back. I would like to know if in Canada this would have played out differently if they had been PoC.
According to the report I read that went with the video, what the cop is holding is a taser, not a firearm. Also note that the young woman, when she realizes it isn’t going to work, just goes flat on the floor and stops resisting, unlike the man. And, yes, even though white, in the US, he’d’ve probably been shot. At least on Slate, the video had “Yakety Sax” for sound.
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Possibly. If they had been First Nations people, they’d definitely would’ve been treated far more aggressively. Maybe not dead, but they wouldn’t have been given as many chances to surrender before the taser was used.
If they had been First Nations people, they’d definitely would’ve been treated far more aggressively
Or Black in Toronto.
Shot? Very unlikely.
Why would an RCMP officer shoot a shoplifter armed with a bag of chips?
The paperwork alone is horrible. I do not know how Alberta does this but I live in Ontario and even drawing a gun “may” result in an official enquiry by an independent agency. Certainly discharging a gun means an enquiry.
It is actually fairly difficult to get a police officer in Canada to shoot you thought if you appear totally nuts, armed with a knife, or both, it can happen.
I’m noticing an astonishing lack of punches to the head – that’s how you can really tell these aren’t American cops – they always go straight for TBI.
@ 8 Abe Drayton
I’m noticing an astonishing lack of punches to the head
Typically that can get you that official enquiry I wrote about.
Our cops can be quite happy to provide some pain, etc, but if the arrestee ends up in the hospital there is that enquiry again.
My impression is that while Canadian police are a lot more violent than say, UK police, they are a far way from a lot of US police.
Here in Saskatoon we just had an inquest into the death of Jordan Lafond. Lafond died in October of 2016 after a high speed chase ended in a crash. Lafond was the passenger in a stolen truck, and died of a brain injury. Pathologists were unable to determine if this was a result of the crash, or of police actions after the crash, which included one officer kneeing Lafond in the head several times because he thought Lafond was resisting arrest.
http://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/its-not-going-to-end-there-im-going-to-keep-fighting-lafond-family-upset-with-coroners-inquest-determination-of-accidental-death
@10 timgueguen
Well, if the pathologist cannot tell us the cause, we may have to give the police officer a bit of benefit of the doubt, that is, no criminal charges and a “firm” recommendation that he consider a new career, perhaps in gardening or pastry cook. Looks like poor training but hard to know.
It is not like that shooting on the Toronto streetcar a few years ago where the officer either panicked or thought he was Rambo and shot the man 7 times. I am betting on Rambo.
I have not read the transcript, but I am puzzled how the Toronto officer could shoot and kill the man, be convicted of attempted murder but not murder.
Ottawa had a case a few years ago where a police officer killed a man because the officer was wearing some dangerous, non-reg “combat gloves” and essentially choked the man.
I am not saying our police are “safe”‘ we just seem a little less ready to kill anybody. Not like the UK police but we don’t usually have a shoot on sight approach.
There are some bad eggs out there and both police and arrestees can do some stupid and dangerous things.
OTOH have you seen the Met in action? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFaPooJBDSg. Police brutality at its worst! Watch out for the garbage can.
I have not read the transcript, but I am puzzled how the Toronto officer could shoot and kill the man, be convicted of attempted murder but not murder.
Forcillo, the officer in question, fired two salvos into Sammy Yatim. The first salvo of three killed him, but the jury found that to be justified, therefore he was not guilty of murder. Seconds later Forcillo emptied the rest of his magazine into Yatim’s likely already-dead body, which is the attempted murder he was convicted of. The idea is the first three shots were justified defence, the last six(?) were him trying to execute a guy. But because the guy was already dead that’s not technically murder. It’s the sort of thing that makes perfect sense while also making no sense at all.
Fun Fact: He got a sweetheart house-arrest type deal because he was determined unlikely to repeat his offence, but now he’s in federal prison anyway because he kept violating the terms of his bail and perjuring himself about it.
@ 12 Mike Hoyer
Thanks. I have had to read a few appeals over the years and it makes some weird legal sense.
Pity about the bail issues, eh?