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Thanks to the citizen who filmed it and seemingly was the only one in the place who displayed any common sense, it is obvious to me. Whether he died of a broken neck, the taser or some other reason remains to be seen. Without the rush to subdue, he wouldn't have died period. The computer that he threw was his own laptop. Very sad.

It's unreasonable to expect people to act like robots and sheep. That will never happen and it's up to the trained cop to use common sense. They are supposed to be trained to defuse a situation, not incite and inflame with unnessary bullying. This guy obviously ran into one of those hard-assed, abusive cops, who don't give a damn, that you speak of, the kind that people are protesting about.

Perp or ordinary citizen who has a problem? Spare me the dramatics, please.

They do receive training in social behaviour. They are trained to be able to differentiate between the ordinary joe and dangerous criminals. They are trained to assess all situations with calmness and logic. Unfortunately, the odd one seems to forget this training or can't be bothered to call on it. All it takes is one cop to lead the rest in to making an impulsively bad decision.

noooooooooooooooo he was "innocent". Why would anybody just bend over and pay a ticket when they felt they had done nothing wrong? What a wimpy thing to do! The cop was wrong and he knew it, that's why he got ugly. He was acting with "how dare you question the great me" attitude. He wasn't acting like was is Mr. right, he was acting like he is Mr. always right.

The guy was interviewd on CNN and he said that he was pointing at the sign. He was trying to explain that he had not had enough time yet to slow down to the reduced speed. The cop ordered him over while he was still doing the posted speed. By the time he had pulled over he was just passed the speed sign, so he felt that it was unfair and was not going to sign up for a ticket. He also thought the cop had pulled a gun and he started to walk away from this nutjob cop, as he said he was shocked and terrified. His wife and babies were in the vehicle and the cop would have seen that. Yup, he sure appeared to be a dangerous criminal! Clear cut case of a trigger happy cop who was just in an ugly mood.

A ranter I may be, a liar I am not! My apology was sincere. There were many people who were scared of Bush at that time. As he was the past Governer of Texas, many people were well aware of his cockiness and stupidity. Did you live in a cave then? If you didn't, then I can only suppose that you must have had a restricted intellectual capacity during the 2000 election. Just to keep on topic, I am thrilled that Harper has designated a huge area in the north for conservation. Further, I think he has done well in his leadership to date, but I won't hold my breath for the future.

Video cell phones have changed things considerably. I live in fear that someone will catch my behaviour after I stubb my toe, then stick it up on youtube. Arrrrrgh!

Sorry for the rant and ramble. You are right, I do feel frustrated. I can't stop remembering the sinking feeling I had when it was announced that GWB had won the 2000 election. Although I was disappointed that he was appointed President, I had still had no idea then, how bad things would get, just knew it was not going to be a positive next 4 years for America. It has been far worse than I could have imagined. I have the same gut feeling about Harper. That's all!

A Prime Minister has never backtracked on the creation of a national park as far as I know. But then a President of the U.S. has never attempted to dismantle the U.S. Constitution in the radical way that Bush/Cheney have done either. Never have so many lies been told to drag a nation into war, that I remember either. Never has a leader of any country in the civilized world pissed on the Geneva Convention and supported torture either. And the last time a conservative Prime Minister (who is now under investigation) jumped into bed with a U.S. President, the outcome was a trade disaster. Harper has shown "scary" signs of jumping into bed with the worst President in U.S. history, and where will this lead us all? If Mr. Harper finds it necessary to cozy up to a near dictator, what is he really capable of, if given a majority? I don't want to find out. I'll take the lesser of the two evils.

If you think my opinion could be successful in contributing to a distrust of Harper, then I have done something right today. I hate nobody.

Shush, they might hear ya. The draft is not incomprehensible with this regime.

Excuse for what? If they can't do the job properly then they should go ice the donuts at Tim Hortons.

Have a good one southern neighbours!

I reiterate...one man...4 cops who are trained in take downs, or so we assume. The risk of personal injury was minimal. Simple logic. That's the profession they chose to undertake and there are risks to it. If all of us who are critical of how this was handled are jumping to conclusions, then I guess the Premier and all the other powers that be are too.

Why would the cops be shooting unarmed people? If a person doesn't have a knife, a gun or some other weapon, where would be the justification in shooting them? How can anybody compare the taser deaths we have seen lately, to the fact that without these tasers, cops might have to use guns? If it was ever reported that a perp with a gun or a knife was killed by being tasered in order for the tasering cop to defend himself, I really doubt there would be much outcry for the perp. Ridiculous! If the cops WERE restricting taser use to life and death situations, nobody would be that upset would they? But this has not been the case. Simple. One unarmed, confused man, four cops with tasers. I don't see much of a life threatening scenario to cops here.

When the last inquiry was performed, they didn't have the full cooperation of Schreiber. Now they do. That changes things and we may see ol "Britan" having to pay it all back, not win another bunch. Mulroney's phony pleasure at the decision to have an inquiry is pure bravado and bluff. I bet he's quaking in his shifty boots.

I can relate!! I love Christmas but dang, I wish we could get back to the more simple ways of celebrating it. There should be laws banning stores from putting up decorations in November and piping carols at us for 2 months. When I was young, there was no such thing as buying Christmas presents that we couldn't afford, just wasn't even considered. Now, presents under the tree take a year to pay off and flow out to the middle of the living floor. It's becoming more and more stressful and less and less enjoyable for some of us. I hope that someday, folks will backlash all this greedy commercialism that's evolved over the past 40 years.

If I were a cop right now, I'd be thinking twice before using my taser on anybody.

Yes, I applaud them too, but if the conservatives get in with a majority in the next election, they can backtrack on this decision all in the name of an "urgent rising need for economic development, blah blah". I don't trust anything Harper does.

Lovely, it's now a daily occurance! Didn't hear much about the other 18 that have been killed at the time they were killed. Glad the media is finally all over this.

Very true, very true, but I like to live in a society where I know that the punishment at least fits the crime.

If these tasers have the capacity to kill people who have had a few drinks, now or 2 days ago, then they damn well shouldn't be using them at all. What about people with heart and other medical conditions? It seems to me that a lot of variables have not even been considered prior to their dishing them out to a bunch of untrained cowboys. They're handing down possible death sentences for misdemeaner offences. I can't imagine losing a loved one who may have had a few drinks, looked at a cop sidways and was killed for it. Another one killed in Halifax today while being transferred from the courthouse to the jail.

The fact that the man broke the law back when he was a teenager, or the fact that he was allowed to immigrate to Canada while unable to speak the language, is irrelevant to the issue of this guy being tasered and killed. What about the tourists who don't speak English and will be flying in to YVR in droves when the Olympics start? Character assassination of this man proves nothing.

Man gets tasered in the U.S. for disputing a speeding ticket. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/1...utube.taser.cnn