Edmonton Police Watch

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EDMONTON – The second time police deployed the Taser, Trevor Grimolfson warned them: “You’re going to piss me off.”

The owner of Dan’s Pawnshop watched the tattooed man lift his hands to his chest, as though he was trying to pull the Taser wires out. Several minutes later, police were finally able to handcuff Grimolfson.

“I don’t think you could reason with the guy,” said Danny, who did not want his last name printed. “Anyone that crossed his path would have been killed.”
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When Grimolfson first entered the west-end shop, he stood in the doorway and made kicking motions in the air. He asked for water. Danny’s father brought a glass, thinking it might calm him. Grimolfson threatened the older man with a tanto – a martial arts weapon – and threw the glass at his head. That’s when Danny called the police.

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The Canadian Press

October 29, 2008 at 10:05 PM EST

EDMONTON — The family of a man who died Wednesday after Edmonton police zapped him twice with a taser stun gun is in shock and questioning why the weapon was used.

“Our whole family is in shock,” said Melissa Bell, a relative of Trevor Grimolfson, who family and friends have identified as the dead man.

“You see a news report and you see that police have tasered your cousin. We are sad and very angry.”

Witnesses say a man entered a pawn shop Wednesday morning in a gritty section of Edmonton’s west end and began assaulting a man inside.

“It sounded like a tractor-trailer was going through the place,” said Michelle Furoy, who works at a liquor store across the street from the pawn shop.

“You could just hear it getting trashed.”

Mr. Furoy said when police went into the shop, she heard clicking sounds of what she thought was a taser, but the commotion didn’t stop.

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