Man dies from Taser shock

[P.C.]

 I'm wondering what people's thoughts are on this.  There is a small video clip of the man pacing....but if there was violent behaviour, the clip did not catch any.

 I have mixed thoughts about this incident.

 

 A man in his 40s died early Sunday morning after RCMP jolted him with a Taser at the Vancouver International Airport, police said.

 Airport security called the Mounties for assistance after an unidentified man began pounding on windows and throwing chairs and computer equipment in the customs area shortly after arriving on an international flight at 1:30 a.m., Richmond RCMP Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre told CBC News.

 "We arrived and tried to calm the man," Lemaitre said. "We tried through gestures to get him to put his hands down on the desk ... to no avail."

 When he ignored orders to calm down, police used a stun gun on the man.

 The man dropped to the floor and police said it took three officers to handcuff him. He then lost consciousness and appeared to go into cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead at the airport, the CBC's Chris Brown reported.

 Few other details have been disclosed other than the man spoke an Eastern European language and a flight from Poland touched down about an hour before the incident, Brown said.

 [A href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/10/14/bc-taser.html"]http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/10/14/bc-taser.html[/A]

[Lil Me]

I question the circumstances under which the Taser is used, since quite a few people have died from Taser blasts now.
 
 Unless the officer is using it in self-defence, you'd might as well shoot the guy with a gun!!!...it seems to have the same effect.
 
 Police officers used to be trained in hand-to-hand combat and takedown.  Maybe a Krav Maga seminar is needed- it's what the Israeli secret service uses.  [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga[/a]
   

[Lil Me]

Btw, Tony Almeida on 24 is a Krav Maga expert.  That enough endorsement for you?
 
 
   

[Sportsdude]

apparently the polish man was asking for help in polish or something.

Anyway its happened again this time in Montreal.
[a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/taser_death"]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/taser_death[/a]

Every time someone is tasered back in the states, it always ends up on tv, the whole incident and they are never "violent" usually they just want to know why they are doing this to them? Police don't say anything pull the stun gun out and the person screams.
 

[They are bad cops]

A lot of these cops who are posted at the airport are typically "green" and inexperienced or just cops where they have to be placed. I read that to a lot of cops, being posted is the equivalent of being posted in Siberia--it's a punishment.

These cops have training to subdue someone with lethal force but instead they opted out using the cleanest and easiest method: the taser.  The taser should only be considered when an actual gun cannot.  But, I am sure the dead guy and his family would've preferred a gunshot to the leg then death.