Les Leyne has written a good column for the Victoria Times-Colonist about the decision not to press charges against the RCMP officers who infamously on video killed Robert Dziekanski while he was pleading for help in Polish in a Vancouver airport: “It’s easier to blame Robert Dziekanski”. Yes, that about sums it up, right down to the invented cause of the killing, “Sudden Death Following Restraint”. It’s bad enough they’re inventing “diseases” these days like “shyness”; now they’re making them up to define deaths that “inexplicably” happen after you’re tasered five times and have a boot pressed to your neck. . .  Leyne wrote a good follow-up article, too, quoting from the enormous amount of public feedback he heard after his first column. CMM agrees with the public outrage, but at the same time, we’re not surprised at all, and it’s important to note what it really means. A retired RCMP inspector noted, as disgusting as the RCMP’s actions were, in fact, they weren’t by current standards of police behaviour unusually reckless, and so it could not reasonably be expected that they could be indicted in court for even departing from police procedures, let alone for having criminal intent.

So let this be a lesson to everyone: These days, recklessly outrageously brutally Tasering someone who’s pleading for help is pretty standard police behaviour.

“Saving lives”, tyeah.