A man has died and several officers have been injured after a police intervention at a rooming house in Montreal resulted in the use of a Taser.
Police received a call about 5:30 p.m. ET on Monday night about a woman suffering from a possible drug overdose at a rooming house near the corner of St-André and Ontario streets.
Police said a man, who appeared to be intoxicated, attacked an officer, who ended up losing his tooth.
"They tried to find the woman, and there was a lot of people, aggressive people inside the place and also intoxicated people," Const. Simon Delorme said.
'If it's a choice between a gun and a Taser, the Taser is less lethal than a gun.'- Patrick Bolland, owner of Globalshock.org.
"One man, strongly intoxicated, started to be very aggressive and combative with the police officer. He hit a police officer in the face."
Several officers were injured while trying to restrain the man, who was in his 50s.
According to Radio-Canada, CBC's French service, the officers resorted to using a Taser after they tried to use batons and pepper spray to calm the man.
Radio-Canada reported that the man refused to be transported to hospital, but eventually lost consciousness.
He was taken to hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead.
The woman who police were originally called to help was treated in hospital and is expected to recover, and four officers were treated in the hospital for minor injuries.
Quebec provincial police are investigating.
Concerns over the use of Tasers have grown in recent years, brought to the forefront by the 2007 deaths of Quilem Registre in Montreal and Robert Dziekansk in Vancouver.
Montrealer Patrick Bolland studies the impact of Tasers and runs the website Globalshock.org.
He said the stun guns should never be used indiscriminately, but if police have no options left, a Taser would be better than a gun.
"If it's a choice between a gun and a Taser, the Taser is less lethal than a gun."
According to Bolland, Tasers create a low amperage shock that seems to disturb heart rhythms, especially in people who have psychological problems or who are under the influence of drugs.
"Suspects in an agitated state who are Tasered frequently die," he said.
But he said sometimes, police have no choice.
"If the police in this case were going to use a firearm on this person … then the use of the Taser would have been appropriate."
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