The incident happened
after he spent 10 hours in the terminal.
I just deleted a couple pages' worth of rant because I know it will offend a lot of people here. No, unlike Patrick I haven't got a clue in police tactics or training, and I'm not an expert in hand to hand combat, but I do believe some common sense may have changed the outcome of the incident; you can blame the man for not speaking English but was there no consideration for the fact that this was an international airport and you'd expect to encounter such problems? The man may have put his hands up to gain a first strike advantage over 4 armed officers, but he then turned around and took a few slow steps, and stood against the wall. Is that really the point where you absolutely have to fire the taser? Maybe I'm too much of a Monday morning quarterback, too stupid and misinformed, and putting too much faith in basic concept of common sense between people. I can mostly understand the arguments of those who are saying that the police did nothing wrong, but something is still bothering me and I don't know exactly what it is. At this point mostly it is the fact that RCMP could not give a better excuse for lying. Try explaining it to us stupid people with reference to police tactics and use of force experts. They say there are already on-going investigations about this incident. Hopefully I can form a better, more solid opinion once they finish with that.
I realized that the title of the thread is misleading if the cardiac arrest from which the man died was not triggered by the taser shots, but we will have to wait until the coroner's report is made public to know if it needs to be changed or not, won't we?
Guess who's been watching the news:
