Man Dies After Taser Shock By Police At Vancouver Airport

The last time I had to fly I felt like spazing out too, and the bullshit has gotten a lot worse since then.

I encourage everyone to boycott the use of flying as a form of travel (as much as possible anyway), especially to the USA.

There are those who believe this weapon shouldn't be used by police. Death like this is usually investigated by the police and Coroners department. The findings usually indicate that the death was due to the victims own poor health and by the Taser, clearing the police of wrong doing. Police hands are tied. In the past it took several policemen using physical force, to subdue a raving victim and often with injury to both parties. Batons or rubber bullets are no less harmless and grave injury can result from them as well. Sixteen deaths in BC by the taser and no alternative has been conceived. One has to ask how many more deaths will result before the police are armed with less lethal weapons.

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<a href="http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=n1016101A">As usual, the eye witnesses accounts do not match the police version of events. </a> <blockquote> The RCMP are disputing an eyewitness account of the confrontation between police and Dziekanski in the international arrivals area Sunday. <br><br> The woman told CTV that five officers were present during the arrest and that the man was Tasered four times by police. <br><br> Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre said the log on the Taser weapon used by an officer shows two electrical pulses were sent into the man. <br><br> He said three police officers were present trying to calm the man. <br><br> "It's not uncommon for witnesses to often mistake security guards in yellow jackets for police," he said. </blockquote> As for who you're going to believe, the RCMP have no credibility left, I mean trying to start riots and shooting people in the back of the head has that effect.

When you are tasered/stunned, usually you will fall down as all of your muscles (especially through your chest and back) contract with more than 100% of your strength (pain receptors inhibit using muscles beyond a certain limit) which induces pain in their victim. While your muscles are fully contracted, they will spasm painfully for the duration of the attack.

If you have ever had a "back spasm" you may have an idea of what this feels like.

Also, while your chest muscles are spasming, YOU HAVE NO ABILITY TO BREATHE AIR. People who cannot breathe will eventually asphyxiate, leading to unconsciousness and resulting in death if the victim is not provided CPR and possible defibrilation.

While you are shocked, your whole body may spasm uncontrollably, and police take this as an excuse to shock them repeatedly because they are "resisting arrest."

Also, one natural inclination once the electric current stops, is to sit up and try to breathe air, and wonder what just happened. Sitting up results in police presuming you are "resisting arrest" and they WILL shock you again. Your only hope is to fall unconscious (which you may already be) or pretend you are dead, or die, if the electric 'leads' connected to your chest are positioned in a place where you convulse uncontrollably while being victimized by the police.

When a taser victim dies, they will usually blame their pool health, or a pre-existing condition which they did not know about, or just say he was on drugs. For any other person in Canada, if you kill somebody and they had a pre-existing condition where they would have died anyway, you are still criminally culpable for their resultant death.

Interesting how electrocuting a victim will result in "resisting arrest", as if people who are being electrocuted are expected to enjoy it and ask for more.

If we're fortunate, someone filmed the event from a cell phone and will post on youtube, that's the only way we'll be able to tell what really happened. We'll never get to see the airport security videos unless it will match up with the police version of events.