After just 24 seconds,Police taser confused immigrant at Vancouver airport.

I just watched the sickening video on CBC news. Senseless senseless death. They never tried to calm him down,just zap him down and kneel on his neck. This should make it to you tube very quickly.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=ddf27c77-7671-43cd-aad3-be49bf2eb471&k=86270

and stand trial for manslaughter, if not murder.

Good grief, that PM is apparently the Bush-Asshole of the North.

VANCOUVER - Police shocked a Polish immigrant with a Taser just seconds after approaching him at Vancouver International Airport last month, a video released Wednesday shows.

Moments later, three or four officers pinned Robert Dziekanski to the ground as he screamed and moaned in pain. One officer placed his knees against Dziekanski's back and neck until the 40-year-old went limp.

Paul Pritchard, a Victoria man who recorded Dziekanski's death, made arrangements to have the footage released to the public in Vancouver Wednesday....He said he had only seen the video once before, when he viewed it on his camera at the airport with a police officer.

Pritchard was at the airport because he was returning from China.

At the request of police, he gave them the video on the understanding they would return it immediately. When they then refused to give it back, he launched court action. Police returned it last week.

they are an easy, and deadly tool, for "law enforcement officers".

so sad.

I'm still at a loss at what law enforcement should do about someone throwing furniture and acting out dangerously in a public place... taser would be appropriate, because if he gets close to an officer's weapon, he could have easily killed many people. How would you propose subduing a violent person like that? There must be a better way than what they did, obviously. But how would you handle that situation better? Is there a more humane weapon available to subdue a public danger, which is what he was obviously. I thought law enforcement knew not to hold people down that way -- it's so lethal.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=05vuY-kqp9o&feature=related

and he was tased four times altogether

As a former Marine Corps Military Policeman, I have to say that the cops were totally useless. There was no real attempt to negotiate with the guy, there was no real attempt to find out what was bothering him. There was no real attempt to find out what would make him happy, so we could all go home. He wasn't even a threat. There was no real attempt to calm him down, and find out what his problem was. He could have been easily taken down without using a Tazer, he could have been taken down and talked to into going home and sleeping it off in so many ways.

They just wanted to taze him. And it's sad. That's not being a good cop. Sometimes people just lose their minds temporarily, they just need a talking to. This whole business of taserering people is just wrong.

And I happen to agree -- but just based on common sense and life experience.

he hadn't been told why he was being held.

I'd be damned upset too.

And you are dehydrated because theydon't offer much in the way of nourishment (Plus you can't bring in liquids), it's easy to predict that some people will act nutty.

But no one should be killed for acting nutty!

that had been sitting in detention for hours and hours because he only spoke Polish and no one understood him? His mom in the Airport frantically asking for someone to help find him?


Or is this a different Vancouver Airport Taser Death?

what are the odds if they went over the loudspeaker and asked if there was anyone that Spoke Russian in the Canadian airport they could have found someone.

No these cops were lazy...they didn't think that the man may have been meedically impaired....


No they misused the taser....they taser him again while he was writhing in pain because of the previous taser. The cops should be held accountable.

WTF.

What's the difference between this treatment and Abu Ghraib?

They're slacking...

surge in adrenaline and you have a a bad situation that can cause death. but death by taser in this situation.

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The video clearly shows that the man wasn't threatening the officers. And then you have a RCMP officer stating this is just one person's view. Its a F'ing camera. That's the way it went down. I didn't realize Bush had minions in Canada too.

It's horrifying in its brutality.

We don't need no stinkin' courts.

that the taser is being used after the "suspect" is effectively subdued. It is being used as punishment. "How DARE you not obey me immediately and in the exact fashion that I wish?"

Anyone else want to say these are "less than lethal" weapons?

I wish I knew how to upload this video to the site.

and I sincerely hope the RCMP gets their shit together before people start heading to the 2012 Winter Olympics.

His mom cleans houses in Kamploops and saved for 8 years to save money to pay for her son's ticket. He had never been on a plane nor outside Poland before.

:grr: