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   The contracts are up for RCMP in British Columbia - let's see that they're not   
   renewed.  Write   
   to your MLA and MP and demand the RCMP be replaced with a provincial force.    
   Enough of this   
   shit.   
      
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   CTVNews.ca Staff -  Thu. Sep. 15 2011   
      
   No charges for Mounties who used Taser on boy: review   
      
   An investigation by an independent police force has found that Mounties in   
   British Columbia who   
   used a Taser on an 11-year-old boy should face no charges.   
      
   The incident took place on April 7 in the northern city of Prince George,   
   B.C., as officers   
   responded to a call about the stabbing of a 37-year-old man at the boy's group   
   home.   
      
   RCMP asked the West Vancouver Police Department to probe how officers   
   confronted the child. The   
   results of that review were released Thursday afternoon in a brief letter from   
   West Vancouver   
   police Chief Peter Lepine.   
      
   The letter doesn't say how investigators reached the decision not to recommend   
   charges, only   
   that the officers' actions did not constitute a violation of the Criminal Code.   
      
   An officer who had been working for the RCMP for only 18 months was placed on   
   administrative   
   leave following the incident, pending the police investigation.   
      
   The boy's mother said the Taser could have killed her son, who has a heart   
   condition called   
   cardiomyopathy and has been diagnosed as bipolar.   
      
   The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP and B.C.'s children's   
   watchdog both   
   launched their own reviews after the boy was stunned by police.   
      
   The 11-year-old is believed to be the youngest person in Canada to be shocked   
   by a police Taser.   
      
   According to a report by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the   
   RCMP, between 2002 and   
   2009 officers with the force used a stun gun in 194 cases involving youth   
   between the ages of 13   
   and 17.   
      
   The 2010 report also found that RCMP Taser shocks against youth were much more   
   common in B.C.   
   than in other provinces.   
      
      
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