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   XPost: vic.general   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   Replacing the RUMPIES won't buy anything.   
   We need to replace the management.   
      
   Dhu   
      
   On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:23:35 -0700, 40%®Çonned wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   > _________________________________________   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > ******************************************************* "We CAN look   
   > after each other better than we do today. We CAN have a fiscally   
   > responsible government. We CAN have a strong economy; greater equality;   
   > a clean environment. We CAN be a force for peace in the world."   
   >             - Jack Layton   
      
      
      
      
      
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