Thanks to the Internet and the fact that video cameras are everywhere, pretty much the whole world viewed Robert Dziekanski being killed at the hands of four RCMP officers at the Vancouver International Airport.
I carry my tiny Canon SD600 camera everywhere on the off chance that something monumental might occur that I can record. So far, nothing has, which might be good or bad.
But anyway, back to the lazy cops. Yep that's just what they were, lazy. Rather than risking messing up their uniforms or getting a bruise on their precious skin they chose instead to inflict, at the very minimum, intense pain and shock, at the worst, death on this unfortunate man. Of course, the worst happened.
There is no way anyone can tell me that their health and welfare were threatened in any way, shape or form. There were four of them, four against one panic stricken weaponless man.
So they took the easy way out and tasered him. And now all the world can see what a pack of lazy power crazed thugs those policemen really were.
At the very least their employment as RCMP officers should be terminated. They should be charged with manslaughter.
I've often wondered why, when a bear makes a nuisance of himself in an urban neighbourhood, he is peacefully tranquilized via a dart and carried off safely for all involved. Yet us miserable humans are zapped with a potentially lethal force. Can they not use the same tranquilizing method with people?
The Internet has been used for a lot of murky practices for sure. But the fact that injustice can be recorded and publicized makes up for all that evil and then some. Whether it be tyranny in Burma or thuggery in Vancouver, these acts of evil can now be exposed.
The video is clear, people can judge for themselves. People the world over.
Most police officers I think are admirable beings. They have what must be the hardest job in the world. They see the worst of people and the most horrific circumstances. They see the mayhem of automotive carnage, the broken bodies and lives. They have to tell mothers and fathers that their children have been killed. They have to prevent enraged husbands from beating their wives or children.
Still, there is no excuse for what happened at YVR. A gross injustice committed by the people we rely on to protect us.
I've said it many times:
The only thing worse than the criminals running wild is the police running wild.
