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MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Ontario’s police watchdog says an officer who Tasered an 80-year-old woman in Mississauga twice didn’t break the law, but could have waited longer before opting to use the stun gun.

The Special Investigations Unit says officers ordered Iole Pasquale to drop the eight-inch-blade knife she was holding while walking on the road around 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, but that she kept wandering and made incoherent noises.

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The SIU says a supervisor officer equipped with the Taser then arrived and decided to apprehend her under the Mental Health Act because he thought she was suffering from a mental disorder and could harm herself or others.

It says he considered other use-of-force options including a baton and wrestling Pasquale to the ground, but dismissed these due to the risk she and the officers could be injured.

The SIU says that while one officer successfully ordered Pasquale to extend her arms to reduce the risk of her falling on the knife, the supervisor Tasered her once, then again after she had fallen and broken her hip because she still held the knife.