FREDERICTON The family of a New Brunswick man shot and killed by police last June is calling for the release of a report into his death. Rodney Levi, who was from the Metepenagiag First Nation, was shot dead by the RCMP on the evening of June 12 in Miramichi, N.B., after police had responded to a complaint about a disturbance in a home. Levi s killing came days after an Edmundston, N.B., police officer shot and killed Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman, during a wellness check. Quebec s police watchdog, known as the Bureau des enquetes independantes, was tasked with investigating the shooting because New Brunswick does not have a similar agency of its own. The watchdog says it forwarded its report to New Brunswick s Public Prosecutions Services and to the coroner in the case, on Dec. 16.
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Posted: Dec 14, 2020 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: December 14, 2020
Tasers fire darts with wires attached to them. The wires deliver an electric shock to a person, temporarily immobilising them. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette/Canadian Press)
In the hands of police, stun guns like Tasers are designed to save lives, but when the weapons don t incapacitate someone there can be fatal consequences from officers using lethal force to a person continuing to harm themselves.
In New Brunswick and in Nova Scotia, at least two people have died in recent years after the weapons didn t immobilize them.
Nova Scotia RCMP say stun guns are effective 87 per cent of the time at making a person comply with police orders, including instances when the weapon is simply drawn and not fired. Last year, its officers in the province drew their stun guns 59 times, firing them in 17 cases.