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Quote by: ruksak Video: Breitbart.tv » Shock Video Shows Man Tasered to Death at Vancouver Airport Tasers save more lives than can be accounted for. Maybe if this idiot wasn't so worked up he would not have died. I could care less about this idiot.

You are more ignorant on the situation then you realize.

But before I even get to that, I am watching my local news, where they interviewed family members of people who died from Taser related incidences by police in the past. Two people died here in my provience in the last two years in situations where tasers were not required.

One person they interviewed was a retired police officer and he states that in our forces, tasers are only to be used as a last option prior to the use of firearms.

So clearly these officers are in the wrong, and this has caught the attention of the entire country.

Now Ruksak back to you being ignorant on the information:

1st - He was stuck in the airpot for over 10 hours (TEN HOURS)

2nd - Nobody employed at the airport spoke his language nor did anybody seem to want to help him until a bystander attempted to communicate with him.

3rd - Nobody there who witnessed this felt as if they were threatened by him, and eye witnesses stated he looked extremely tired and frustrated..... and who wouldn't be, being stuck in an airpot for 10 hours with no end in sight? I imagine I'd go a little bonkers too.

4th - Employees at the airport told his mother that he never arrived, so she went home.... all the while this was happening.

5th - This isn't just pinned on the RCMP officers due to their actions, but I feel some responsibility should fall on officials at the airport as well for not dealing with this matter properly before this all occured with the officers.

In all, 18 people have died in Canada since 2001 after being shocked by a Taser. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day says the device has been used more than 8,000 times by police in Canada since being introduced six years ago.

Prince George Citizen - Taser moratorium

Also from Amnesty International Canada:

Police chiefs, with support from federal officials, must conduct a rigorous, independent and impartial study of the impact and use of tasers before they are implicated in more deaths, says Amnesty International in a new study released today. There is a rising number of deaths in custody, nine in Canada in the last fifteen months and over 60 in the United States in the last three years, after use of the weapon.

Knowing how things like this occur in Canada, I would guess a revamp of the proceedures involving tasers will be changed shortly, as the public won't put up with it.

Also... as a side note to those who want to nazi-ize out police for being brutal and such... in comparison to other situations involving taser related deaths, nobody is attempting to immediatly excuse their actions as being just, but are being straight forward and looking into the matter.

In my opinion, these officers we're blaitently in the wrong, the Taser should not have been used, let alone twice, and they should have tried to difuse the situation before they zapped the hell out of him and tackled him.

Frig I can already think of several other ways this could have been resolved peacefully.