Woman Arrested For "Assault With A Weapon" For A Water Gun 

Uhh we ain't doing this. I ain't rubber stamping and putting my name on it.an honest judge might think. Nope Nope. If the process of being prosecuted is done for fines and fees to the jurisdiction and to bully some, as is common in local corrupt systems, in our larger courts, we are sinking as a society. Larger courts used to be not doing this much or at all.

@@eastlynburkholder3559 what?

Well you obviously have no clue

@@KGFlyer55 So, you think this should go through the courts. Wasting valuable court time using up tax dollars ruining this woman's life keeping Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb on the force and uncorrected and I'll add to that the neighbour for being an asshole just because he got sprayed with water? This crap never occurred before "The Covid Shut Down" and the rise of the hyper sensitive woke foke.

maybe she was practicing for muriatic acid spray.

The policeman would have no law law to back up his actions so his hands are tied

@@Bennie-l9f- IF he wanted to charge this woman, the cop could have charged ‘assault’. Adding ‘with a weapon’ beggars belief. From the news I was reading, the alleged victim is a troublesome person according to the neighbourhood. I hope the court fines this particular neighbour with wasting the courts time and resources

Police are obliged to answer a complaint. If the complainant wishes to press charges, they must file it with the prosecution service . Up to the prosecutor to go ahead or not. dont blame police for doing their jobs.

A wokie weenie maybe

@@theodorepedersen3367 If someone blinks aggressively in my direction, must a police officer proceed with charges? Let’s say the blinking didn’t touch me physically. Let’s say a neighbor yelled loudly, maybe saying the word, HELLO!” If the neighbor spoke in a way that I actually felt their breath impact my skin, that breath contains water particles. Would a police officer be required to file charges? The answer is obvious. A competent police officer is required to use discretion on the job, even though this quality is absent in many officers and members of the public.

It;s amazing to watch our tax dollars hard at work.

It is unbelievable. So much car theft going on in Brampton/Sauga too.

Best response

It was a heckuva takedown for sure. Water Balloon Squad called in, I'll bet. PTSD. Dr. Soggypants, PsyD, got an officer to release their medical record, bravely sharing their experience: "There was water everywhere, man, it was between damp & moist, I called for a helo' to make sure the lady with the green & sky blue hand-canon didn't rabbit. I saw a cat....this dry, nervous cat...a kitten, really, just adorable. Fur was fluffy, a nice light grey - well when the suspect fired, she didn't even aim - I saw that kitten retreat & scramble, the stream of water kind of cascaded onto its fur, a small rainbow, it would have been beautiful had it not been so horrific. I'll never forget that kitten's eyes, doctor, I wake up & it's like I'm there - the light grey fur now black from water. How is that cat ever to trust humans again? I keep a water gun under my pillow in case they let the suspect out. I saw kids the other day, when the temps went over 30C, and there they were, squirting streams of water like it was fun. They'd go back inside, I learned later, though, it was to RELOAD! Their own mothers helped them reload. It was bad in the 60s & 70s when the squirt guns were transparent & sprayed 3 feet tops. Now, my gawd, the assault water guns they have, you tell the firearms minister, what would you hunt with that? Why would you even HAVE something like that, unless your intention was to soak the whole community????!??? O the humanity!"

Kangaroo Court?

I doubt they will.

Perhaps they are the real criminals

You misspelled "Clown." 😁

@@moehoward01 Hopefully they just throw it out yeah.

That's the whole problem with the police they believe who.ever calls them first

Even saying shot is pretty strong. More like squirted.

I tweeted the OPP and our cop loving premier about this abhorrent situation. Not that any of them probably care, but I’m an Ontario resident and had to make myself heard

​@@RomanBijan That's not always true. They "believe" whomever will lead to the most reward for the least effort. 🤦‍♀️

My small town pays the OPP to nap in their cruisers behind the Legion and to do the occasional radar trap on long weekends. They have never once caught a car/boat/ATV/RV thief though.

police doing their jobs, called out, investigated, they asked the victim if they wanted charges and bingo. charges. just the way our system works.

More like courts and police wasting your money, Not new.

@@theodorepedersen3367 Police always have discretion whether or not to charge anyone, a warning probably would've sufficed.

@@ScubaSteveCanada Its the prosecution that charge people based upon evidence collected by police who have been called because a complaint. up to the judge to listen to the prosecutions case and the defense response.

Why do I read your comment in a Max Payne voice?

@@luketarplin I read it as Columbo.

What happens next???

It was raining hard. And this raincoat has holes older than the secretary down at the station. I looked through my mail over a cup of black coffee. I put the alimony bill in the pile with the others. All unopened. A tightness in my chest. The old ticker will give in before she does. But today, I’m in the business of justice. There are clues everywhere you just have to know where to look. And it’s not easy finding evidence of a water-gun crime in the rain. But no criminal is perfect… she’ll slip up. Or maybe just slip… because it’s raining.

@@PortableCoincidenceMachine these comments are.. chefs kiss

Yes

@@dattebenforcer At most, common assault.

Victoria Police Chief wife, about a year ago. BINGO

This is what happens when people are over focusing on assault. It's kind of like if you are a hammer everything is a nail. Cops get told to arrest domestic violence for anything like throwing a cup of water at someone.

The reality of law is that they can always charge you, no matter how ridiculous, because laws are generic enough that with a little dishonesty you can say anything fits the crime. Runkle is justifiably incredulous about these charges, but in theory you could intimidate someone with a water gun (simple example if you paint it to look like a real gun and then use it to rob someone). Theory is all well and good but what matters is the fact of what happened here, and there's no credible way under these facts that the neighbor was honestly intimidated.

Nah, she should just claim she has a physical disability that affects her aim

Double standard for the overpaid high school dropouts …f the police

Yeah...

Lol, right...

Its been going downhill for 40 years.....as has most of the west.

Lol same county lol

It's not getting fun living here. Not gonna lie😒

It is clown world, isn't it? Happened in Alberta as well.

@@MarcMartino Keystone cops ??? That's a good one !!! 😂😂😂

@@mariolafrance5806 Monty Python's Flying Joke Police?

marc, i'm not up on all the laws, i watch for entertainment mostly. because the neighbour wanted to press assault charges on the lady are the cops not obligated to arrest her and take her in for questioning? or if not obligated to arrest her, are they not required to investigate this fully. maybe take her to the station. but then i agree with you on the incident being dismissed as according to the information it was an accident. no charges and no other actions. well, maybe just a stern warning! lol i think it's incredibly wrong for the neighbour to potentially ruin this lady's career because of accidently being caught in the cross fire of a water gun. i hope karma is watching. thanks for answering with positive information, not putting me down if you think the question is dumb. i truly would like to know.

The vast majority of cops can't think.. that's exactly why they're cops

Losing a job is no joke. Having this on her employment record is no joke. I hope the judge throws this out but then again this is the new clown world where common sense does not prevail. If she gets exonerated if the charges I hope she sues for damages. She is certainly within her rights to do so. I’m sure this has become a real shit show for the OPP it wouldn’t surprise me if they don’t try to get her to plead to a lesser charge like mischief or something. Hope she doesn’t take it and hauls the lunatic neighbour along with everyone else involved into the court room.

@@okridiculoush157 I doubt she will get her job back even if it’s thrown out.

@@madtabby66 ya that’s sad.

Why can't we just find out who the neighbor is and get HIM fired?

I hope you got over the trauma? 😎👍

@@Crunt2167 It’s an ongoing process. Thankfully, the little puppy Bingo is a therapy dog, so he’s helping.

you can't press charges unless you're one of the 'protected categories' the forever victims....

Would be publicly mocked or privately scolded by me if I were judge. Prosecutorial discretion exists so persons can used their good judgement and good sense and use the taxpayers' money and resources wisely.

@@eastlynburkholder3559my guess is this won’t make it past the prosecutor’s office (in Ontario the police don’t need the approval of the crown to lay charges)…in fact this might make Ontario reconsider.

@dwaynepenner2788 I have seen persons and groups willing to walk into deepest ocean trenches (if they could physically do it) rather than admit they are not walking towards the shore in the shallow waves. It is called doubling down on the stupid (choices and actions) doubling is something done on the game of backgammon.

and so you should be. You people voted Trudolf in 3 times, what the hell is wrong with your people.

When I meet a Canadian I just try to talk about maple syrup and national parks so it does not slip into something embarrassing

the law has always been that way, any criminal offence (on record, so if convicted), you can not have a PAL anymore.

​@@marcusone1I thought no just having an arrest record means no more PAL.

@@ickster23 well, really they can take it for many reasons, i wouldn't be surprised if that is on the list as well. Because its a weapons charge, they could suspend a PAL and take the guns until trial...they good luck getting them back... so your likely right. :(

Or a water gun

​@@ickster23nope

Unless they do it with a "silly French accent"..

@@danprudholme1733haha!

Only if you are up wind.

A kid was lit on fire in Saskatchewan, this week. Not a peep. Local news for less than 24 hours, then gone.

In Canada the Progressive Conservative party wouldn't do anything about this if they were in charge let alone the Liberal Party. Just an evil Country becoming more evil.

@@NPC-bs3pm Sadly ... accurate.

@@NPC-bs3pm no, Trudeau only stops court proceedings to give a terrorist war criminal 10 mil. He wouldn't step in for a white Canadian woman fighting BS charges. Pierre Polieve might step in, I could see him doing that

@@NPC-bs3pm you say "let alone" as if you are confused enough to think the liberals are on Canadians side. Sad state of affairs if people still don't have their eyes open after COVID

@@mikephillips2984 I am from the Right-wing. Boomers (and Gen-X) DOMINATE the Right-wing culture here in 🍁Canada. Their weakness for decades is my generation's loss. PC Party of Crp 💩Litterally they have the word 'Progressive' in the party name. For Example: As much as I don't hate Stephen Harper (former PC leader) he introduced the HST tax which basically collects ALL tax and sends it to the Federal government to be redistributed later (increasing power to the nanny state taking away power from provincial tax)

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Only if they're assault style water guns! It's hard to call it with all the red, yellow and orange plastic. How bout it Trudeau?

Only the black, scary ones.

that's all they do nowadays since they are letting all the criminals go, mark of a Marxist system

That's typical for communist.

Stuff like this is precisely why Trump has such a big following.

Real criminals are scary and have good lawyers. If you got arrested tomorrow, do you know who you’d call?

Good question

They are there to protect the elite. Not you. Simple.

They love the power.

There's probably a blue haired cat lady out there that gets terrified every time their neighbor waters their lawn as it reminds them of a machine gun and triggers a triggered meltdown.

​@@Chris_Garman-- Is she a witch? "I'm meeeelting …"

No...But you'll have to store your hose and sprinkler in seperate lockable boxes and register them with the federal government

weren't the 60s great?....lol

My neighbor soaked my children over the fence for playing to loud. Always was an a$$hat, called the police, they arrived looked at the hysterical children that were literally dripping wet on a cold day and charged him with assault. Went to court, crown wanted to reduce to mischief, I agreed, as long as he apologized to the children. In court, he turned around and said one word, sorry. Judge said that's it? Sent him to holding cell for a few hours with pen and paper. We came back a few hours later and she made him read it out in court. Then she accepted the reduced charge, found him guilty, he got a fine, kept his job and didn't loose custody of his kid to cps as he was already dealing with them. Do in think it was a waste of time? Maybe in the short term but not in the long term. Teaching children they law protects them and teaching malcontents the law applies to all and actions have consequences and ripple effects that affect more then one, priceless.

@@MM-ss1sr see, that sounds more like common sense justice.

He's pissed off that he wasn't invited to the neighborhood party.

They’re called Karen’s, and they’re everywhere.

simcoe ontario , lady was a teacher of disabled , she accidentally hit a man nearby while trying to spray a child she was playing with . the man who called police and had her charged is a well known 911 caller in the neighbourhood

I was going to comment that it's probably an Ontario story before watching, but he said it as I was typing. Lol. Canada's "police state" 😅

Hey, don't let the good old USA off the hook.

Legally, in this case? Yes. Assault with an object is assault with a weapon.

It was an assault style water gun

​@@oz_jonesthere is no "case" just basket cases

Women have come to believe that being told NO by their husbands is mental abuse. 'I saved 66% on this dust collecting knick knack that we already have 4 similar of". You could have saved 100% by not buying it at all.

Sounds like he's abusing the system.. he needs to be charged..

@@JoKayS wont happen. the rational and reasonable get punished in modern society

@@milktobo7418it sure seems that way.

@jaerockchalk3216 that's ridiculous! I mean, sure, it's mildly annoying to be sprayed with water. But to call the cops because of an accidental spray when kids are running around. A normal reaction might be a "Yikes that's cold!" Or an annoyed grunt. Definitely not police call worthy.

@jaerockchalk3216 And yes, I've been sprayed with water accidentally and purposefully. Even once by a random kid, lol. Can't do much but basically, ignore it.

You must understand that as an educator working with vulnerable populations (disabled children), the proper procedure here is to put her on paid administrative leave. A school board can not be put into the position of having to try to adjudicate all the facts of an alleged crime, especially given that the facts are not available to them. You can imagine the parents' potential concerns, as well as insurance issues, and liability issues. Further, all it would take would be an unscrupulous parent to accuse her of assaulting their child, and now it gets really messy, so this is protecting the defendant as well. Therefore thought they may be sympathetic, the proper procedure here is to put her on paid leave, which is what they have done.

​@@jasonrekker4328Thank you for the clarification. Suspended with pay pending investigation is a reasonable and appropriate stance. I understood it as just suspended.

@@joeybeaulieu1666 you're welcome :)

Woke!

She is on paid leave, so no loss of wages. She should definitely sue for negligent investigation. See R. v. Storrey, [1990] 1 S.C.R. 241

go to down town toronto and just watch all those cops standing around doing nothing but watching crimes being commited. e-bikes all over the sidewalks and they do nothing, i asked for help and got no response.

Only an evil witch would call the police on someone over something as petty as this. Story checks out.

@@nathanlonghair as long as it is just water in the water pistol, plenty of dangerous fluids that could also be used in it.

Suspect was heard(supposedly) uttering "I'll get you my pretty,.. and your little dog too !"

​@@bluecard009OH thank God! I'm not the only person who thought Like that!

If you hadn't;t done it, you would probably have been sternly admonished to answer all questions truthfully.

Amusing, but not really how it works. Anything can become a weapon if it is used as a weapon. So the ice scraper and charging cable in your car can become weapons if you use them to hit or choke someone, but they are not weapons unless they are employed as such, and you would not reasonably present them as weapons to a border agent. In fact I would caution anyone against it, because it may be perceived as a threat, because the only way those items would become a weapon would be because you intend to use it as such, and you don't want to imply that to a border agent or police officer for what I think would be very obvious reasons.

No, no, no. They're not looking. They claim that the full autos are everywhere. Like a mass invasion of them. And it's Kanakistan. Get it right. Kanakistan. lest you will be less patriotic and obedient to his majesty Justin in blackface

Back in my day, the cops would have joined in with their own water guns and had fun.

No Way...Pigs are privileged... They are Paid to be Perfect

Worse, it was semi-fully automatic!

@@CptJistuce 😎

It had a plastic stock therefore an assault style fully semi full auto repeater death machine.

Semi. Full is attached to the hose.

@@CptJistuce 😱 an assault style semi-fully automatic??? Those are even scarier than those things on your shoulder that go up !!!