Quilem Registre Taser incident

Quilem Registre, 39, died at Sacré-Coeur Hospital October 18th, 2007, after being tasered as many as six times by Montreal police officers who were trying to subdue him. He was stopped for a traffic violation October 14th, 2007, around 9:30 p.m. in Montreal's St-Michel district with suspicion of driving under the influence.
Police said Registre "hit three parked cars and acted intoxicated when they approached him." Details of the incident were not confirmed by independent sources. His cousin said Registre had spent that day with his parents and was returning a car to his girlfriend when he was pulled over. Provincial police put the incident under investigation as required under Quebec public security laws whenever officers are involved in the death of a suspect.
Registre had been living in a halfway house. Charles Montpetit, a Montreal criminal lawyer who represented him on earlier, unrelated charges, described Registre as a medium-built man who was not especially aggressive or physically imposing. A spokesperson for the coroner’s office later confirmed that Registre had traces of cocaine in his system. He was the second Taser-related fatality in Canada in just one week and a third person in a month to die there after being struck with an electrical discharge from a police taser.

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