Officer not to be charged for tasering 80~year old

Ontario’s police watchdog says an officer who tasered an 80-year-old woman in Mississauga twice didn’t break the law.  But the Special Investigations Unit says he could have waited longer before opting to use the stun gun.  The SIU says officers ordered  Iole Pasquale to drop the eight-inch knife she was holding while walking on the road around 3:30 a.m. on August 28th.  But they say she kept wandering and making incoherent noises.  A supervising officer equipped with a taser then arrived and decided to apprehend Pasquale under the Mental Health Act.  He considered other use-of-force options including a baton and wrestling the woman to the ground but decided to tase her because there was a risk she and the officers could be hurt.