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Charges against a man who was hit by a conducted energy weapon (a Taser) when Saskatoon police responded to the wrong address in late June were stayed on Wednesday.

Dion Waniandy, 49, was charged with assaulting a police officer and uttering threats after four police officers walked through the door of his 24th Street apartment, which was left ajar, without knocking. They were looking for a man named Jason.

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Waniandy said he told the officers they had the wrong address and yelled at them to leave. He was wearing only boxer shorts, and says he was trying to get a pair of pants from his bedroom when the Taser barbs struck his back.

He feels the Taser was used on him because “I was brown and I stood my ground,” he said.

“I keep thinking, ‘At some point, could I have done something different?’ And that’s my problem, and that’s the stinking thinking that all aboriginals have, is when we are involved with the police, we always question ourselves,” he added.