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| Subject: Canada: Transit Riders Tasered For Not Paying Fares Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:56 am | |
| VANCOUVER — The country's only armed transit police have been tasering passengers who try to avoid paying fares.
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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| Subject: Re: Canada: Transit Riders Tasered For Not Paying Fares Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:48 am | |
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| Subject: Re: Canada: Transit Riders Tasered For Not Paying Fares Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:03 am | |
| Shush! _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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