Congrats Van. Province on Tasers–Lawsuit Coming Tho!
filed in Media Coverage, Tasers on Nov.10, 2008
CMM nearly died of a zap attack waking up this morning to an editorial in the Province, one of Vancouver’s two major daily newspapers. Time to Zap the Taser flatly attacks police for committing “executions” on innocent people with the infamous pain-compliance mechanisms. Congratulations to the Province for its honesty and forthrightness, but they won’t have to wait long for the threat of a lawsuit for lines like “Today, we let the police Taser people to death”. Taser International is well known for vigorously defending the “grey area” that says when I hit you over the head with an axe and you die of subsequent blood loss and heart attack, that means my axe blow didn’t kill you, your own sorry ass heart did.
November 10th, 2008 on 1:19 pm
I didn’t read the editorial but good going for The Province It’s about time! So far, there have been 24 or 25 reported Taser deaths, many victims were psychiatric survivors. Watch for another whitewash – the “independent” RCMP investigation into the Taser murder of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski involving 4 RCMP officers last October in the Vancouver International Airport, fortunately caught on video.
Don