A man died Tuesday after police used a Taser to subdue him, in what is believed to be the first such case in Winnipeg.This guy had a knife... they should have played it safe and put a couple of 9 mils center-mass.
Witnesses told CTV Winnipeg the unidentified man, reportedly in his 20s, had been wielding a knife.
You call a play like this... just don't be too surprised when someone "Lawrence Taylors" your dim-witted criminal ass.
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“He would carry a little knife, because you know what?"Well, Mom... I don't know how to break this to you... but that's not what kids do around here.
"That's what kids do."
I didn't approve of it, but how are you going to stop that? Especially in this rotten city.”Uh, here's a thought... you could been somehow involved in his life.
She hadn't seen him for two weeks, she said, because he had been staying with his father, who lives in a rooming house and gets his money panhandling on Main Street.If only there were more social workers.
She was told her son had once been to hospital and said he had used crack, but Ms. Shymko doesn't know whether that's true.
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