Here's the video of the man being tased to death in the Vancouver airport:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCJ5VtEZ9tg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sC2Wy4H8-M
Incredibly, the RCMP first claimed that the man fought with them before being tased.
As you can see from the video, a woman, a total stranger, approaches the man to calm him down. So you can see why four burly cops with bullet-proof vests would be afraid of arresting him without sending 50,000 volts through him first....
What he said...Originally Posted by PhilosophyGenius
LET THE TAZING BEGIN!
I heard a blurb on NPR about this over the weekend, and finally found a source to verify.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...rom=public_rss
Tasers a form of torture, says UN
Article from: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in Geneva
November 24, 2007 04:44pm
TASER electronic stun guns are a form of torture that can kill, a UN committee has declared after several recent deaths in North America.
"The use of these weapons causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture,'' the UN's Committee against Torture said.
"In certain cases, they can even cause death, as has been shown by reliable studies and recent real-life events,'' the committee of 10 experts said.
Three men, all in their early 20s, were reported to have died in the United States this week, days after a Polish man died at Vancouver airport after being Tasered by Canadian police.
The man, Robert Dziekanski, 40, fell to the ground and died after the police officers piled on top of him.
There have been three deaths in Canada after the use of Tasers over the past five weeks.
The company that makes the weapons has said that similar deaths have been shown by "medical science and forensic analysis'' to be "attributable to other factors and not the low-energy electrical discharge of the Taser".
The UN committee made its comments in recommendations to Portugal, which has bought the newest Taser X26 stun gun for use by police.
Portugal "should consider giving up the use of the Taser X26,'' as its use can have a grave physical and mental impact on those targeted, which violates the UN's Convention against Torture, the experts said.
You take your life in your hands if you choose to travel by air in more ways than one. Supposedly the video doesn't show the moments before, when the suspect was alleged to have launched a monitor among some other disorderly conduct. I'm not siding with the RCMP, jus sayin is all...
Yes, he tossed a little monitor. But he was contained inside a room with locked doors and four RCMP wearing bullet-proof vests. All I'm saying is, for how many centuries have cops of all stripes taken down a guy like that without resorting to the use of lethal force?
tsk tsk tsk Tim. It was LESS than lethal force!
And another one....
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/st...7-000d370e4998
Man dies after being shot with Taser
Published: Thursday, November 22, 2007
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia Justice Minister Cecil Clarke has ordered a ministerial review into the use of Tasers in Nova Scotia after the death of a 45-year-old man at the Nova Scotia Correctional Facility early Thursday morning.
A Taser had been used by police.
"I have ordered police services officials in my department to immediately begin a review of policies and procedures regarding Taser use in Nova Scotia," said Clarke. "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.
"I also want to offer my condolences to the family at this difficult time."
The review will examine Taser practices of authorized users in the province, including law enforcement, corrections and sheriffs.
The man was shot with a Taser in a Dartmouth, N.S., jail.
He died Thursday morning at the Burnside correctional centre, nearly a day after the Taser was used on him.
No other details are yet available.
The death follows the recent Taser death of a Polish immigrant at Vancouver's airport.
© CanWest News Service 2007
From:
[see the added captions]
http://voiceofutah.blogspot.com/2007...h-two-hot.html
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2190410
Man Tased for Refusing to Sign Speeding Ticket
November 20, 2007
http://media.bonnint.net/slc/284/284.../move_headline
Randall Jeppsen and Whit Johnson reporting
A video of a Utah Highway Patrolman is getting big play all over the Internet. So, is the trooper in the right or the wrong?
The man has filed a complaint and is threatening to sue the Utah Highway Patrol for being wrongfully tasered. He got his hands on the trooper's dash-cam video and posted it all over the Internet.
This whole thing started with a speeding ticket that escalated into much more very quickly. The Utah Department of Public Safety is now trying to figure out whether or not the trooper's actions were justified.
Posted on popular Web sites like YouTube, a trooper with the UHP shows the world what can happen if you resist arrest. The incident happened near Vernal in mid-September. Jared Massey, the driver of an SUV was pulled over for speeding. His wife was in the passenger seat; his toddler was in the back.
In the video Massey clearly becomes frustrated about the citation, demanding to know how fast he was going.
The trooper said, "Well, you're going to sign this first."
Massey replies, "No, I'm not. I'm not signing anything officer."
And the trooper says, "OK, hop out of the car." He then attempts to place Massey under arrest. "Turn around, put your hands behind your back."
You can see in the video that Massey ignores the command and proceeds to walk toward the car. He's then tasered.
Massey spoke to KSL Newsradio. He says, "I'm laying there on the ground, and I start coming to and I hear him yelling at me another command, and before I can process it, he's telling me to roll over, he hits me with the Taser again.
"I gashed my head open and had cuts and bruises on my back, and they had to take me to the hospital."
He's threatening legal action.
Meanwhile, the Utah Department of Public Safety is trying to answer some questions of its own. Sgt. Jeff Nigbur said, "I do not know what that particular trooper was thinking about, what he was concerned about, whether he felt his life was in danger, whether he was worried about the driver's life so close to traffic. I don't know."
If you refuse to sign a citation, troopers can give you another citation or, in some cases, they can place you under arrest. That's what happened in this instance.
The investigation should be complete sometime next week.
http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story...4-0562796f86b6
Former BYU professor to sue over courtroom taser incident
Reported by: Susan Wood
Last Update: 11/19 11:26 pm
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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - A former adjunct BYU professor is about to sue a Third District Court judge, claiming the judge wrongfully ordered him cuffed and tasered by Salt Lake County Sheriff’s deputies.
Tom Lowery was acting as his own attorney on November 22, 2004. In the courtroom, he suffered from a stress-induced mental disability, as he struggled to conduct lucid oral arguments in a case he's filed against a three leaders of his local LDS church group, one of whom was a BYU Professor.
As his demeanor becomes confrontational, Judge Anthony Quinn grows impatient with Lowery's behavior.
Five deputies attempt to cuff him and, as the judge has ordered, take him to a holding cell to cool down. After a momentary struggle, they zap him with a taser. Lowery says, "And then I hit the floor. They were on top of me and I was trying to scramble away from the electricity. They tased me into unconsciousness."
Judge Quinn can't comment on the the case. University of Utah Law Professor Medwed sat down with ABC 4 and watched the courtroom video.
As Medwed sees the video for the first time, watching the bailiffs attempt to cuff Lowery, he says, “It looks as though there are five bailiffs who appear to be armed.” He adds, “Usually the use of a taser is designed to apprehend a fleeing suspect or someone who poses a security risk.”
Medwed says, “Mr. Lowery was not about to leave the premises, nor was he a flight risk.”
Lowery says, as a disabled person, experiencing a state of mania, he should have been talked down, not literally forced down.
In any courtroom, a judge maintains ultimate control. But Medwed says that control must be reasonable. He feels the taser was not appropriate.
Medwed says, “Its justified only when its reasonably necessary to justify the end of law enforcement. The man was already in handcuffs. It's shocking."
ABC 4 examined the tape again in slow motion and upon closer inspection, it appears Mr. Lowery was not actually cuffed at the time of his first tasering. His hands are free as deputies wrestle him to the ground. So the question remains: Was he resisting arrest, or did deputies over react? This question will most likely be answered when the case goes to court.
What the hell did this turn into, the taser thread?
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