{"id":806338,"date":"2026-07-16T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806338\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:07:10","slug":"watchdog-investigates-after-toronto-police-fire-multiple-tasers-seriously-injure-man-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806338\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog investigates after Toronto police fire multiple Tasers, seriously injure man \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s police watchdog says a man was seriously injured after Toronto police fired several stun guns at him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Special Investigations Unit says police responded to reports of an assault in North York early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The police watchdog says officers shot multiple stun guns at the 36-year-old man during his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a5919f1c06021afb960aafajpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"4992\" data-pswp-height=\"3485\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a5919f1c06021afb960aafajpeg.jpg\" alt=\"The logo of the Ontario Special Investigations Unit is pictured in Toronto on Friday, April 12, 2024.  THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Arlyn McAdorey\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe logo of the Ontario Special Investigations Unit is pictured in Toronto on Friday, April 12, 2024.  THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Arlyn McAdorey<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Investigations Unit says it has assigned three investigators to the case.<\/p>\n<p>The police watchdog says it believes that bystanders may have videos of the incident and is urging anyone with information to contact investigators.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 16, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s police watchdog says a man was seriously injured after Toronto police fired several stun guns at him.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-806338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806338","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=806338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}