Man dies after B.C. RCMP officers use stun gun during arrest
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:48:36 +0000
A 38-year-old man has died in hospital after a stun gun was used during his arrest near Sicamous, B.C.
The province’s police watchdog said the man died Tuesday evening.
The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. is investigating after the RCMP arrested the man when officers responded to reports of an erratic driver whose vehicle was straying from its lane in the early hours of Monday morning.
Mounties said when officers tried to stop the vehicle, it allegedly fled and narrowly missed hitting a police officer.
The vehicle was stopped again in Malakwa, west of Kamloops, and police said when the driver allegedly resisted arrest they used a stun gun and handcuffed the man, who went into medical distress.
The investigations office is a civilian agency that probes all cases of injury or death involving police.
The IIO said the B.C. Coroners Service is also investigating the death.