MISSISSAUGA - An 80-year-old
Mississauga woman with dementia and her daughter are suing three police
officers and the Peel Regional Police Services Board for Tasering the
elderly woman twice during an incident that left her with a broken hip.
Police found Iole Pasquale walking in the Thomas St. and Erin Mills
Pkwy. area on Aug. 28 around 3:30 a.m. carrying a bread knife, according
to the province's Special Investigations Unit. After attempts to get
her to drop the knife failed, they used the Taser on her twice, causing
Pasquale to fall and break her hip.
The senior is now suing for $1.1 million and her daughter, Angela, is
seeking $250,000 in damages. Their lawyer, Clayton Ruby, filed the
papers to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Thursday.
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