Video of airport Taser death released

I would term it as a sheer barbaric act committed by the RCMP, which is often accused of using excessive force against people who break the law. It was barely a year ago that an Albertan died in Red Deer after being tasered three times by the RCMP. In that case, a local called 911 and reported that a person was smashing car windows in a back alley. Police got away by giving an explanation that one of the officers was hit by the man using the wooden handle of a pitchfork. The person remained in comma for about three weeks and later died. In that case, there was no video footage recorded and there is no way that we can know about the truth.

In the Vancouver airport video released last week, we can see a person who is visibly nervous and by throwing things around he is trying to communicate with the airport authorities and wants them to know that he needs their help. This person had no idea where he was and there was no support staff at the airport which would have been able to help him out. He spent nearly 10 hours at the airport after landing and knew nothing about the whereabouts of his mother who came to receive him. In an interview with his neighbors in Poland, it was revealed that Robert Dziekanski had left his country to seek better life in Canada. Robert could only reach to the door of this heaven he seeked, but sadly he could not cross this door.

Preliminary video review done by various police services in different states in America have revealed that there were enough police officers at the airport who would have been able to calm down the person by verbally interacting with him. Still if there was no way out, they would have been able to physically overpower him as they have been well trained to do so. Rather they chose the easiest way out and went ahead in giving him a 50,000 Volts electric shock. And even upon doing so, they mercilessly tried to overpower a visibly shaken person who was already moaning in pain. And there he was lying dead within seconds of the beginning of this fatal ordeal.
It is a shame for the country’s elite police force which was mounted for one sole reason, protection of its population. I would like to say that despite Amnesty International Canada’s repeated calls for a suspension in the use of Tasers until more studies are conducted on their use, why its use has not been discontinued. And we should also have new laws in place to discipline such peace officers whose actions are in contradiction with their sworn in responsibilities.