The Justice Department will release a report today on Taser use in the province.The report is available by clicking here (downloads a PDF).
It’s the first part of a review on conductive energy devices, or stun guns, started in December in response to the death of a man not long after he was Tasered.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sherri Aikenhead said the members of a new panel will be named at the event along with a timetable for the second portion of the review.
It was prompted by the case of Howard Hyde, a Dartmouth man who died in November about 30 hours after Halifax police Tasered him twice during his arrest for spousal abuse. Mr. Hyde, a schizophrenic, struggled with jail guards moments before his death.
I do not agree with the use of the term "a schizophrenic" in The Chronicle Herald's article. Click here to read other's opinions on the misuse of this term.
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