Archive for November 15th, 2007

Man Tazered to Death

Via breibart.tv, a man in a Vancouver airport was tazed to death after being held in a security checkpoint for almost ten hours. As you’ll see in the video report, the man is agitated and begins throwing objects, but once the police arrive the man abruptly stops throwing things. The man does not take any aggressive action toward the  police, yet they taze him anyway. The police continue to taze the man even after he has fallen to the ground screaming.

I’m going to follow this story, I’d like to see how these police officers are punished. Most likely they will not be punished very harshly if at all. I don’t think police nor government authorities realize that tazers are not safe “non-lethal” weapons. It’s a shame a man had to die for it, but hopefully the incident will force them to realize this.The police officers, from what can been see in this video, had no reason to use such excessive force on this man.

This goes beyond excessive force, what happened in that airport was plain murder.