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igotthisguitar · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: RCMP Tasers Kill Yet Again ...

Canadian Man Dies After Being Tasered

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A Canadian man died Saturday, four days after police shot him with a Taser-gun because he reportedly was "acting erratically" in a store, police said. He was the third person to die in recent weeks in Canada after being attacked by RCMP with the deadly hand-held weapon.

Robert Knipstrom, 36, died in a hospital after two officers used pepper spray, a Taser-gun and their batons to "subdue" the British Columbia resident. Police earlier said Knipstrom was extremely agitated, aggressive and combative with the two officers who responded.

He was said to be conscious and speaking when taken to the hospital.

The cause of death has yet to be determined. Although a Taser was used against Knipstrom, it was not immediately clear what role, if any, it played in his death, said Inspector Brendan Fitzpatrick.

Investigations into Knipstrom's death have been launched separately by the British Columbia Coroner's Office and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, police said at a news conference Saturday.

The case comes as Canadian police face intense criticism over the death of Robert Dziekanski, a Polish immigrant who died at Vancouver airport last month after officers used a Taser and "manhandled" him.

A Nova Scotian man also died earlier this week, 30 hours after being shot with a taser gun at a jail where he was being held on assault charges.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/canada_taser;_ylt=AuhNPG_NpBT4weOOJBC0CjFhr7sF

Hmmmmm ... shot, beat & pepper-sprayed, but unclear as to why he died, eh?

Rolling Eyes

seoulsucker · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:00 pm Post subject:

seoulsucker · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject:

Funkdafied · Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Location: In Da House

Your title reads "RCMP Tasers kill yet again" and yet the article includes "The cause of death has yet to be determined". Your agenda is showing very clearly.

loose_ends · Joined: 23 Jul 2007

runlikegump · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: Seoul

You'd rather see cops use their guns? Tasers deliver a non-lethal dose of electricity in 99.939% of cases - bullets offer slightly lower chance of survival. It is incredibly sad that three people have died so close together as a result of Tasers. It is awful that there is uncertainty around the proper amount of force used with the Polish guy. But as a means to disarm or impede a genuine bad guy, it is a much more humane and acceptable response for the cops to use than to resort to their firearms.

ernie · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Location: asdfghjk

i think it's pathetic that a group of trained police officers can't take down a single dude without using tasers or guns... if tasers are 'non-lethal', why can't anyone use them?

runlikegump · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: Seoul

cbclark4 · Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan

I have detailed the problem with taser use several times on this forum.

The reality is the taser could be used safely or at least with far more
safety than present experience exemplifies.

In every case that has been brought to my attention recently there were
definite misuse signals.

Vancouver highly agitated man doesn't speak English, hit him with a taser
or get a translator, naw let's tase him.

An 85 year old suffering from dementia and schizophrenic woman armed
with a hammer. Which word should you key in on 'hammer' or 'dementia'
or 'shhizophrenic' or how about 85 years old, yep just tase her.

These are the types of decisions being made folks tase tase tase.

There are no policies, the manufacturers manual convenient refers the
user to follow the local police policy, and the local policy then advises the
user to refer to the manual.

Anyone here familiar with the brakeman parable from Atlas shrugged,
ultimately the taser is used with authority and no responsibility.

There are no specific Taser use policies.

There is talk of guidelines and user manuals.

These 50,000 volt cattle prods we are talking about.

sojourner1 · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:50 am Post subject:

They probably have those tasers amped up on the highest setting with a new super charged battery which is causing heart attacks.

It is possible that a new type of battery is being fit into those tasers which increases the power from the original intended level which is probably making them very dangerous to the point of causing damage to your heart and/or nervous system should you get zapped.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 3:55 am Post subject:

Ilsanman · Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Location: Bucheon, Korea

Yeah, and with all these new PC programs opening up, officers don't have to be a minimum weight or height anymore. It opens the door for 140 lb weakling officers, and women who wouldn't have a hope in hell of taking down a 250 lb drunken violwent person. That's why we give cops weapons.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:43 am Post subject:

genezorm · Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: Mokpo

i think tasers make the police job a lot easier
you dont have to struggle or fight with anyone, and if someone is giving you lip, or being a dick, just taser him and say he was "behaving erratically" or "he looked like he was going to use force"
that'll teach those punks a lesson

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006