Several weeks back a Polish man was tasered at the Vancouver International Airport by RCMP. The man died from this incident and has caused a lot of questions to be brought up in regards to the use of tasers. A video of the incident is posted if your not sure what happen.

From the news the man did not speak English very well and was in the baggage claim area for approximately 6 hours waiting for his mother to pick him up. The man became somewhat erratic and the RCMP subdued him with a taser which killed him.

How do you think this issue could have been prevented?

I think this could have been prevented in several ways. I do not understand how the man was able to spend 6 hours in the baggage area without anyone noticing him and doing anything about it. The airport should hire someone to just watch for people that look confused in the baggage area and offer assistance. If they do not speak English they could be directed to a phone where an interpreter can communicate with them.

 I also think the RCMP should evaluate this video on how not to handle this type of situation. If you watch the video you will see the RCMP officers who finally tasered the man came from some off site location, surrounded him and then aggravated him to the point of which they required to taser him. If anything this situation would have been handled better by someone who could have looked at the situation and understood it from the other persons perspective.

How do you think this will affect international visitors from attending 2010?

I am very concerned that we could have 1000′s of people similar in the Vancouver International Airport come the 2010 Olympics.