Thursday, April 17, 2008

Canada: 10 year old arrested, threatened with taser for being "noisy"

The parents of a 10-year-old boy want to know why Ottawa police barged into their apartment with guns drawn to arrest their son - for being noisy.

Lukasz Gurzynski was clowning around with friends on his apartment balcony and sword fighting with sticks with the television left blaring inside on Sunday afternoon.

A neighbour told the kids to quiet down and tossed a beer can from an adjoining balcony, cracking the glass sliding door.

Someone then called police and three officers arrived, put the boy in handcuffs and kept him in a police cruiser until his mortified parents arrived 20 minutes later.

Lukasz claims the arresting officer told him he would have used a Taser gun on him if he had brandished one of the stick swords when officers first arrived.

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