Robert Dziekanski video
OK, this is a pretty disturbing video clip, which appears to show the Canadian police killing a mentally disturbed Polish man at an airport, using a “non-lethal” electric taser stungun. I don’t know too much about the background of it, but I’m putting it online here because it seems that Youtube are fast removing all the evidence.
I couldn’t find any other Flash suitable copies around (all seemed to be streaming Windows Media or Real Media files, which could easily be “disappeared” without a trace) so I ripped and converted one of the streams. This clip (downloadable here) should be perfect for uploading to Youtube or other Flash video sites (it’s already in the native format, right size and right bitrate), if people want to keep putting it out there.
Once again, this is a pretty disturbing clip.
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Haz said,
November 29, 2007 @ 11:54 am
re: the context of this incidenct. I can no longer seem to find the sources I read about this, but they were all fairly ‘mainstream’ – the guy was a Polish worker who was emigrating to Canada where his mum lived. They had arranged to meet at the baggae carousel, not realising that this was in a restricted area of the airpiort, and thus inaccesable to his mum. He had never flown before, and never been abroad before. He waited around in baggae reclaim for something crazy like 6 hours, eventually wandered out into the public arrivals area, but by that time his mum had left. He got really scared and confused, and spoke no english so couldn’t ask anyone for help. He gradually got more and more agiated, and eventually the police approached him, tasered him twice, then restrained him on the ground. Worryingly, this is something like the 18th taser related death in north america in the last year, and they are now in the process of rolling tasers out across the UK’s police force. In one incident recently police tasered a guy sititng alone on a bus after he slipped into a diabetic coma and therefore failed to get off the bus at the last stop. When the bus got back to depot the bus driver phoned the police, who thoguht he may be a ‘terrorist’ so tasered him. Yeah, nice, tasering a guy in a coma, fucking pigs.