November 22, 2007

More TaZer news . UGH. and surely more to follow ...

I hope Amnesty starts circulating a WORLD WIDE petition SOON,
as the ones in CANADA cannot be sign by foreigners.

Canada usually moves forward ONLY when confronted by
WORLD WIDE pressure these days.

Now for how the AUSTRALIAN Mainstream media is posting about these
"incidents" and the repercussions.

Probably MORE later today.

Impossible to stop and strip all this information today right now.

Sigh.

A Taser International representative demonstrates the company's stun gun.
Canada's third taser death sparks probe
November 23, 2007 - 7:22AM
Source: ABC

A third death in five weeks linked to the use of taser stun guns by police in Canada has prompted a ministerial inquiry in the easternmost Nova Scotia province.

Justice Minister Cecil Clarke ordered the review into the use of tasers in Nova Scotia following the death of a 45-year-old man who died in police custody on Wednesday, hours after being zapped.

"I have ordered Police Services officials in my department to immediately begin a review of policies and procedures regarding taser use in Nova Scotia" by law enforcement, corrections staff and sheriffs, Mr Clarke said in a statement.

"At the same time, RCMP are being called in to investigate the circumstances of the death at the correctional facility and I understand Halifax Regional Police will also have the RCMP conduct an external investigation into the arrest."

Earlier deaths

In October, Robert Dziekanski, 40, died after being shocked repeatedly by policemen with a taser only 60 seconds after they first approached him at the Vancouver airport in westernmost Canada.

A bystander's video released last week showed the four officers then piled on top of the distraught traveler as he lay writhing and screaming in pain on the floor, and within minutes he fell still.

Days later, a Montreal man died in hospital after being shocked by police with a stun gun, touted as a safer alternative to firearms.

In the wake of these fatalities, Amnesty International urged authorities to suspend the use of tasers, saying it had documented 16 prior deaths in Canada that raise "serious questions about the health risks involved in electro-shock weapons."

- AFP

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