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A Saskatoon man who was Tasered in his apartment last week says he plans to take legal action against the police officers who entered his unit after they were called to an incorrect address.

Dion Waniandy, 48, said he was sitting in his boxer shorts drinking beer on Wednesday night when four police officers came through the door of his downtown apartment, which had been left ajar. Waniandy said the officers demanded to see a man named Jason, who lives next door.

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Waniandy said he yelled at the officers that they had the wrong place and hollered at them to leave, but they called for backup instead. He said he turned to go into his bedroom to put on pants and was Tasered in the back.

“I went straight down onto the bed,” Waniandy recalled. “This was not a crime scene … I didn’t deserve this.”

Waniandy was taken into custody and charged with assaulting a police officer and uttering threats. He has since filed a complaint against the police service, alleging the officers entered his apartment illegally and assaulted him. His complaint has been forwarded to the Saskatchewan Public Complaints Commission, the provincial body that investigates complaints against municipal police.