Aegix Drakan
11-16-2007, 11:04 AM
I'm APALLED that something like this happenned. Especially on Canadian soil. I thought we were better than this...
It happened last month, and it's only really coming out now...
LINK TO ARTICLE (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071114/airport_taser_071115/20071115?hub=Canada)
Cell Phone video taken by a bystander. Cops show up at about the 5:00 minute mark. (It's rather nasty... just a warning) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHKk5qQRzL4)
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n the video, Dziekanski backs away from police and raises his arms, as if to capitulate to the officers.
But within seconds he was zapped with a Taser, an electric stun gun. He flails in pain, is pinned by the officers, appears to have been Tasered again, and passes out. He later died.
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When they do arrive, Dziekanski appears to be calm. He backs away and appears to be in the process of handing himself over to police when he is Tasered, a mere thirty seconds after police arrive.
>_> Ok, so yes, he was causing a ruckus, but can you blame him? He was lost in a foreign airport with no food or water for at least 10 hours, unable to communicate. And he was nowhere near theatening enought to warrant an instant taser.
It seems that if you do anything even remotely suspicious in an airport these days, you get branded as a terrorist, and have no rights. I understand that we need to protect the public, and all that, but...come on! this guy wasn't even on the threat radar. He was just some lost guy looking for his mom to pick him up at the airport! Couldn't 4 policemen ave enough training to grab him without the use of a taser?
>_> Yet another case where tasers are used in the wrong way.
It happened last month, and it's only really coming out now...
LINK TO ARTICLE (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071114/airport_taser_071115/20071115?hub=Canada)
Cell Phone video taken by a bystander. Cops show up at about the 5:00 minute mark. (It's rather nasty... just a warning) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHKk5qQRzL4)
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n the video, Dziekanski backs away from police and raises his arms, as if to capitulate to the officers.
But within seconds he was zapped with a Taser, an electric stun gun. He flails in pain, is pinned by the officers, appears to have been Tasered again, and passes out. He later died.
---
When they do arrive, Dziekanski appears to be calm. He backs away and appears to be in the process of handing himself over to police when he is Tasered, a mere thirty seconds after police arrive.
>_> Ok, so yes, he was causing a ruckus, but can you blame him? He was lost in a foreign airport with no food or water for at least 10 hours, unable to communicate. And he was nowhere near theatening enought to warrant an instant taser.
It seems that if you do anything even remotely suspicious in an airport these days, you get branded as a terrorist, and have no rights. I understand that we need to protect the public, and all that, but...come on! this guy wasn't even on the threat radar. He was just some lost guy looking for his mom to pick him up at the airport! Couldn't 4 policemen ave enough training to grab him without the use of a taser?
>_> Yet another case where tasers are used in the wrong way.