Obvious PTSD attack, leads to police MURDER in CANADA
http://www.thestar.com/fpLarge/video/276752
In what this video shows, Robert Dziekanski's MURDER is totally unwarranted.
If proper police and emergency training were given, there is NO WAY that this man should have been left in an area without a support worker when his PTSD symptoms began to show, which is LONG before he smashes the window.
The arrival of a HORDE of cops is guaranteed to only aggravate the situation, which of course it did - each cop backing up the others in their drive to DEPERSONALIZE the man's already obvious distress, while no reasonable person is ever seen to be arriving at the scene.
People who have been at the forefront of extreme political repression or get left in impersonal airports, are going to aggravated. Doe that mean they should be TASARED and then die?
C'mon CANADA! You can do better than to spend billions of dollar$ on new police equipment and instead bring real emergency workers into our airports, seeing that we have millions of foreign visitors each year. Where for instance, were the Traveller's Aid people? Couldn't they pass your security clearance there in Vancouver??
There are many questions to be answered here. It is ALLEGED that certain voltages which definitely stop people fighting back: but the videos I have seen when LARGE amounts of police are used on people CLEARLY HAVING PANIC ATTACKS has shown me this is NOT so. They tend to keep on fighting - and then that survival instinct (which is what a panic attack is showing) is used against the person to rationalize even further lasar attacks! Now, WHO IS INSANE!!
If you are reading this, PLEASE speak up and demand the retraction of tasars. They are DEADLY and inhumane. Demand that PROPER training be given police and security forces and demand that REAL emergency workers be on hand at Canadian International airports.
Virginia
Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair says he still believes front-line police officers should carry Tasers despite the furor over the death of a Polish immigrant at Vancouver International Airport.
"I believe that Tasers have the capacity to save lives as long as the officers are properly trained in their use," Blair said yesterday. "(In Toronto) there's a clear policy on when they are to be used and under what circumstances and appropriate accountability in their use."
He declined to comment on the shocking video footage showing RCMP officers delivering a shock to Robert Dziekanski, 40. "I've learned it's prudent to wait for the outcome of those investigations rather than comment specifically on video."
Blair, in his capacity as president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, is recommending the Ontario government change legislation that right now restricts the use of Tasers to tactical officers and front-line supervisors.
He said the Toronto Police Service's record on Taser deployment has to date been excellent and there have been no deaths or injuries attributed to their use.
The service now has 450 Tasers, and Blair would like to see that grow to several thousand at a cost of around $8.5 million.
- Betsy PowellVANCOUVER–Outrage and claims that Canada has shamed itself are among reactions to the final screams of a newly arrived Polish immigrant after he was zapped with Tasers by RCMP officers at Vancouver International Airport.
Videotape, released Wednesday, of the confrontation and Robert Dziekanski's dying moments has now been seen by millions of people around the world, thanks to heavy rotation on the YouTube website and Canadian and international TV networks.
VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Watch the video of Robert Dziekanski being Tasered by police.
"When I heard that scream, I screamed. I could not help it," a weeping Maria Karulis, a member of the Polish Canadian Women's Federation, said yesterday. "My friends and family in Poland, they tell me that they will never forget that scream. I know I will never forget seeing him fall to the ground and dying."
Karulis said the image of RCMP officers using 50,000-volt Tasers on the agitated and erratic, but unarmed, Pole, and his obvious agony as he crashes to the floor before falling deathly silent, is jolting viewers around the globe.
"This is the greatest shame Canada could put on herself to the whole world," she said.
Dziekanski, 40, of Pieszyce, Poland, arrived at the airport last month to start a new life with his mother, Zofia Cisowski.
The non-English speaker had been told to wait for her and he did, for hours, not realizing she couldn't get into the secure baggage area. Not seeing him emerge from that area, Cisowski had gone home to Kamloops believing her son had missed his first-ever flight.
Dziekanski, sweaty and breathing heavily, began acting erratically, at one point throwing a small table against a window. The videotape shows four RCMP officers arriving just after 1:30 a.m. Oct. 14 to confront him.
He has his hands up and cries out: "Policja, Policja, Policja!"
One of the four officers is heard saying in the video the word "Taser." Another officer says "yes."
Dziekanski is shocked at least twice by police. His screams of distress muffle what sounds like a third shot.
"The public outcry and sentiment has been unlike anything I've seen before," said Nelson Kalil, a spokesperson for the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP in Ottawa, which has launched an investigation. "It's one take, one lens, and something the RCMP is trying to make clear (is) that it should be taken with a grain of salt."
A number of other probes have been launched, including a coroner's inquest and reviews by the RCMP and airport officials.
"I was disturbed, I was shocked. It was a very sad thing to watch," Piotr Ogrodziñski, Poland's ambassador to Canada, said of the video.
"It appears that police action was not suited to this situation in which an agitated, desperate person was searching for assistance. It's heartbreaking." He has sent a diplomatic note to Canadian foreign affairs about the incident.
Yesterday, RCMP Cpl. Dale Carr cautioned that the video shows just one view of the altercation.
B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal added: "I think we should wait until all the evidence is in" before altering police use of Tasers.
In Ottawa, the NDP called for a moratorium on Taser use, saying there are no clear national standards governing them.
Liberal MP Bonnie Brown, meanwhile, said it appears medical intervention was warranted. "Canadians want answers now before more lives are lost. Is it standard operating procedure for the RCMP to use Tasers when there is no obvious physical threat?" asked the Oakville MP.
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said he's asked for his own examination of the weapons.
"Before the Liberal call on this, I had asked for a review related to the use of Tasers," Day told the Commons.
A spokesperson for Day later downplayed that comment, saying he was referring to the RCMP and coroner's probe already underway.
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