LOL those accidental serious repeated stair falls can hurt.
So I've been told.
I know the legality of it is wrong, but IMHO, the morality isn't.
This was a different time, a different place. In the country side, there is no way to conceal a cruiser, so stake outs where concucted in fields. Sometimes sitting in mud or cow ****, for days, real grunt work.
After days of freezing temps, driving fall rains, an Officers judgements can be impaired. But duty calls.
When the ring leader shows up, you have to move and fast. There is no time for hesitation or second guessing. Adrenaline is pumping, minds are racing.
You bust in and try and tackle the situation ASAP, get them all down and accounted for, before they can blow the still.
Sometimes someones off takin' a piss or dump, or whatever, he still has to be found. The tricky part is, you know what the outside of the barn looks like, but the inside can be a maze, complete with false walls, booby traps and such.
On one such an occasion, a young Officer, my father, stepped down a set of stairs and was jumped by an FLQ sympathizer, whether Logic 7 wants to believe it or not, many of this stills being run in those days, were a source of funds for the FLQ.
he got the better of my father for a moment, but that was enough. He plunged a 4" buck knife into my fathers face, with such force that it shattered a tooth on its way in and nearly severed his tongue clear off, it was literaly hanging on by a thread.
My father having server in the Army, prior to joining the RCMP, was not about to let this small wound drop him, though I think I'm tough, I'm not sure I could have recovered as quickly. He regained control of the situation, but lost control of himself. He proceded to put a beat down on the man, with all the primal instincts portrayed in the openning of the movie 2001. He beat on the man with such wild abandon, the his partner had to pistol whip him, to get him to stop.
Professional? No. Human? Yes.
The poor man that had the misfortune of cutting my father and feeling his wrath, was treated in the examination room right next to my fathers. He was OK, apart from having a broken jaw, several broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder, a shattered orbital bone and a concussion, so the man required some surger.
My father required surgery as well.
When the Officers were later questioned as to why the man was so badly injured, they reported that he "tussled' with them on the stairs as they tried to get him out of the barn and fell, they went down to get him and he "tussled" with them again and again he fell. After they were able to get him up the stairs, he again began to "tussle" and the still was knocked over and the barn burned down.
So you can see how accident prone some FLQ fund raisers can be.
Besides that, anyone that thinks the FLQ of that period were freedon fighters, or are in some way hers, can kiss my furry ass.
Sure the RCMP employed some sketchy tactics. It wasn't as if they were going after a group of honourable Soldiers or church ladies, these were fanatics.
