CBC News reports:
An Edmonton police officer was found guilty Tuesday of excessive force for repeatedly using a Taser stun gun on a teen who was passed out in the back of a car 10 years ago.
Const. Mike Wasylyshen faced five charges under the Police Service Regulation of the Police Act, including two counts of unlawful or unnecessary exercise of authority and three counts of insubordination.
Wasylyshen used the device on Randy Fryingpan eight times in one minute as the 16-year-old lay passed out drunk and high on the back seat of a friend’s car.
Fryingpan, 25, testified he remembers little about Oct. 5, 2002 except waking up handcuffed and spitting up blood.
The decision comes nearly two years after the start of Wasylyshen’s disciplinary hearing. The process was delayed last year when Wasylyshen’s lawyer tried to have the charges dismissed.
In 2005, a provincial court judge ruled the police officer had violated the teen’s rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
At the time Judge Jack Easton called the officer’s actions “cruel and unusual” treatment.
Yet acting police chief Darryl da Costa dismissed allegations of abuse against Wasylyshen, the son of a former Edmonton police chief, later that year, calling the accusations unfounded.
In 2009, after a lengthy appeal by Fryingpan’s mother, the Law Enforcement Review Board ordered Chief Mike Boyd to lay new charges against Wasylyshen.
Wasylyshen faces a penalty hearing on Nov. 2 with a decision expected to be made Nov. 5.
maybe he stole the maple syrup…
i hear your cop fuck buddies calling you common there ready for their ass fuckings
” Yet acting police chief Darryl da Costa dismissed
allegations of abuse against Wasylyshen, the son of a
former Edmonton police chief, later that year, calling the
accusations unfounded.”
Why cops should not be left to police cops.
Shaved head, vacant yet also chip on the shoulder look on his face, beefy, looks like your typical authoritarian pig.
What was the evidence? Just curious. If the kid didn’t know it happened, whom did?
@Common im sure you can do better than rejected south park bits. try harder. @arthur. learn to use the English language. you sound terribly ignorant with your poor grammar and spelling.
@T
Curious myself, but aparantly enough for a jury.
He should have spanked that boy.
Those damned Canadians…
Oink! Oink! Oink!
If there are so many good Cops out there why is it that there are so many rotten ones
Wouldn’t the good Cops rat out the scum
I only want to see one Bad copper being Tazed beaten to a pulp by six officers and hospitalized for resisting arrest.
I see it all the time when its a civilian.
So until then keep your I’m a good Cop propaganda to your lying self.
Wow, it only took ten years, and all that while I have to assume this POS was still on the job. Just beautiful. Wonder what kind of wrist slap the pig will get for this on Nov 5th.
The EPS has had more than its fair share of disgraces. From beating a man on crutches after calling him a cripple, to tasering this citizen, Mike Wasylyshen certainly takes the cake.
But let’s not forget about the Overtime Sting Operation, the drinking with strip club employees in the officers’ lounge after hours, the rounding up of homeless people to dump on the other side of the city, the handcuffed teenager who died after “falling down” an elevator shaft, and, of course, tasering a jaywalker.
Thank god for conditional discharges.