by The Canadian Press Edmonton Sun A man who acted erratically after arriving at Vancouver International Airport early Sunday died after police used a Taser on him. Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre said the man was out of control, sweating profusely and yelling in what was believed to be an Eastern European language. “He was pounding on the glass windows that was there, he actually grabbed a computer at one of the work desks and threw that to the ground,” he said. Airport security called the RCMP, who were one level above, to help contain the man. When they arrived, officers tried to motion to the man, who didn’t appear to speak English, to calm down and put his hands on a desk. Police said the man didn’t respond to their requests and reached to throw something. It was at that point an officer used a Taser on the 40-year-old twice in an attempt to immobilize him. However, Lemaitre said the man continued to be combative. “(The Taser) didn’t seem to have any kind of effect on him,” he said. Police held the man down in an attempt to subdue him, and he was handcuffed. The man, who was still flailing, then lapsed into unconsciousness. He died shortly after paramedics arrived. A coroner is investigating the incident and a toxicology report will be done to determine if there were drugs in the man’s system. “We don’t know if it was intoxication,” said Lemaitre. “It was certainly not normal behaviour. An autopsy from the coroner’s office is going to be of great help to us to determine if it was alcohol or drugs or some other kind of medical condition.” He also said the incident was likely not related to terrorism. Because the man died while at the hands of police, the Commission for Public Complaints were contacted to investigate the incident. Investigators will determine where the man came from and what he may have been doing prior to the incident. Interpol will be contacted to verify the man’s identity. He was travelling with identification. Lemaitre said the man appeared to be alone and no one was waiting for him at the arrivals area. International arrivals had been rerouted but there were no delays in flight schedules.
So they imply or wish to suggest the taser is the reason of his death but in reality his age, actions ect might be the cause. Oh well act like a some freak breaking shit up that does not belong to you and flipping out and your likely getting hurt. What was there to protest, the use of something to attempt a person from trashing a place, tossing items (i.e. computers) that could have seriously harmed or killed others or is it protest bad behavior that leads others to feel the need to overpower them to save others from injury and property damage?
Fine Yank, go ahead and make excuses for encroaching tyranny all you like, ya damn yankee. Then make excuses for the incident where a young man was recently tased for asking John Kerry a very controversial question (his involvement with the secret group 'skull and bones'). Kerry stood there and said nothing as this violation of the Bill of Rights unfolded.
Okay well then how owuld you suggest they handled it. A man they do not know is tearing the place up, tossing large dangerous objects with people around yelling things people dont understand in an airport. Attempts made to quiet the person down failed so????? In most countries airports failure to immediately comply would get you shot! The last sentence there shows the taser appeared to have no effect! Same goes for pepper spray on some people too. So the man even after he was tasered needed to be held down to hand cuff becuase she was still able to fight and only after he was cuffed did he slip into unconsciousness. So he dies after the fact. Most people who suffer from electric shock injuries are not too able to stand much less fight and if the heart was damaged enough to kill him from the taser the effects would have been far sooner and more severe up front. Lastly I do not like the taser either, I believe if you needed it then shoot the bastard just as easy! Why pay good tax money for a prison system.
That's what you get when you try to smuggle condoms full of PCP in your stomach. One just happens to erupt
Don't taser's have settings? Or is there only one kill? Were these RCMP trained by Blackwater? The police may not be to blame. Didn't this individual have a passport why couldn't his country of origin be determined? In this age of terrorist hysteria it's amazing to me so much needs to be investigated after the fact...or is that coverup. How many times was he tased? A heart can only handle so many arythmias.
I have to admit, he was behaving very dangerously. But I have to say, my bf's dad was tasered while he trained to be a sheriff, and aside from a sore it left, he even said it wasn't that bad at all. And he's like in his 50s! Maybe this guy was on something? It also might of been suffocation. All those men on him at once.
