{"id":156256,"date":"2025-09-20T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156256\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T03:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T03:30:10","slug":"one-man-taken-to-hospital-after-mental-health-crisis-leads-to-tasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/156256\/","title":{"rendered":"One man taken to hospital after mental health crisis leads to tasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Police-RCMP-Lights-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189502\"  \/>A person was taken to the hospital on September 17th in Fort St. John. (Canva.)<\/p>\n<p>FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. \u2014 RCMP officers say one individual was taken to the hospital after being tased during what they described as an \u201cextreme mental health crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Fort St. John RCMP detachment, officers received a mental health crisis call in the evening of Wednesday, September 17th in the area of 86th Street and 85th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrived at the scene alongside a crisis negotiator, paramedics and firefighters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following what officers described as a \u201clengthy standoff\u201d with an individual, an RCMP member used a \u201cconducted energy weapon\u201d \u2014 a taser \u2014 on them out of concern they might hurt themselves.<\/p>\n<p>That person was then apprehended under the Mental Health Act and taken to a hospital for further care. A video of the incident circulated in local Facebook groups in the aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was taken to the hospital on September 17th in Fort St. John. (Canva.) FORT ST. JOHN,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-156256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}