An obviously distraught man barracaded himself in a section of the Vancouver airport and started swearing at passers by in Polish who thought he spoke Russian.
Four RCMP officers arrive, and nearly rush the man, one hopping the barrier in one swoop. As the man puts up his hands they taser and tackle him, then taser some more. As he is convulsing, an officer weighs down on the victim's throat with his knee, and doesn't let up until the man is dead.
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These officers were itching for a confrontation, instead of a resolution.
They attacked Mr. Dziekanski without provocation.
As he convulsed on the ground, the officers tried to hold him, making it seem to the man who took the video that the victim was strugging. The videographer even comments on how Mr. Dziekanski can still be putting up a fight against four men!
The officer kneeling on the man's neck - could he of suffocated him?
YES, this was in Vancouver, not New Orleans. A sad reality about police brutality came out last night as I was watching a Jay Leno rerun with Seth Rogan who plays a cop in the movie Knocked Up. Asked if he took a ride with the LAPD to get a "feel" for the part, Seth said something along these lines -
"yeah, we did go on a ride with the LAPD and we asked a policeman why he decided to become a cop. We thought it was going to be a story about civic pride and all that. But basically he was like, 'well, you get to tackle people'."
Let's face it - our young men in uniform aren't the pragmatic, intellectual type. Why do many people want to becom cops? To have authority, power, and finally see some real action after all those years of just fantasizing about it in Quake and Halo.
