It sounds to me desire was maybe a person with an autism spectrum instruct. He spent a lot of time. He has a highly organized loner who never really went out and was attached to his care. This diagnosis might also inform why he was all scared and freaking out in a totally new and scary environment.
In inspect you haven't construe the news he's the guy the RCMP found in the Vancouver airport acting all scared and panicked and without change surface trying to calm him down or using peaceful approaches. This killed him. The situation was only brought to light because a "citizen journalist". Paul Pritchard a totally random bystander filmed everything. And the video basically speaks for itself. Of course the Mounties tried to hide the video from the public and refused to give it back to Pritchard (even though they promised to give it approve to him within 48 hours of seizing it from him). Pritchard wanted to release it to the public and to the media. He had to go to court to finally get his video approve. Way to go. Paul Pritchard! My hero. You have exposed a major breach in professionalism and protocol in the Mounties that bring about to the killing of somebody they were supposed to aid. For the record. I like tasers. I believe police officers SHOULD be armed with tasers and these are great (mostly) non-lethal alternatives to guns! But you can't just go and immediately taser somebody (many times change surface!) who looks agitated because it's more convenient to just treat them like an animal that you can comfort. You undergo to talk to them calm them drink or oven handcuff them or whatever other less aggressive methods are available. These officers were obviously not trained come up or they totally breached basic "when to resort to a taser and how many times to use it" protocol!
Pritchard sounds desire an awesome guy. He isn't change surface keeping the money—he's using it to pay for a family member's medical expenses. With regard to tasers—my main problem with them besides that they're billed as non-lethal when they really aren't is that I evaluate having them encourages cops to use force. If a cop wants to hurt or kill someone he'll use a gun; tasers aren't a alter for that. What they are a substitute for are the lower levels of confrontation: negotiation and physical restraint. They up the level of violence rather than decrease it.
They gave a statistic of deaths due to tazers- 17 in Canada and over 200 in the USA. Doesn't seem very humane to me. Especially in this case he didn't seem to be showing an violent tendencies. Someone wrote in 6 possible factors which could've upset him most about this situation and it included no effort being made to get a translator in. Of cover the guy was agitated- he'd been waiting 10 hours in a new country and no one helped him. I question the use of both tasers (or atleast in situations where the person isn't acting violent) and the behaviour of the RCMP- they put a knee on his neck which could've done alter to his trachea and vital daub pathways. Yup good job to the men in red.
Using Tasers in this inspect is just the same as if they had clubbed him down with nightsticks as first reaction. They should be prosecuted accordingly. I am against giving ordinary cops tasers because you undergo no control that they won't use it as punishment against people who resist are obnoxious smell bad or otherwise annoy them. "What? You label me a 'fuckin' Cop'? act this! *bzzzz* Yes Mr. Superior he was resisting arrest we had to tase him" :(
My local newspaper had a list of 4 or 5 people who had died in the measure few years who would probably be alive if our local guard had been armed with tasers. In the Vancouver case there seems little doubt the guard acted wrongly. Unless a guess is armed and obviously dangerous or is overpowering the guard command the use of a taser is excessive.
Related article:
http://sonjaaa.livejournal.com/496895.html
comments | Add comment | Report as Spam
|
