Several fit RCMP officers could not take down a single, allegedly crazy Pole wielding a stapler without tazering him nearly a half a dozen times:
An RCMP officer has testified he was sure Robert Dziekanski intended to harm the Mounties called to Vancouver's airport in October 2007.
Const. Gerry Rundel told the public inquiry into the death of Dziekanski that the stapler the Polish man was holding could have been used as a weapon against the officers or members of the public.
You've come a long way, baby. Just twenty years ago, these guys would have been the laughing stock of their profession, now it is an acceptable defense for a police officer to claim that he feared for his safety against a man "armed" with a stapler who the mere civilians around him say was not particularly threatening. Good call for the cops. If that man were an accountant, who knows how many pens he had on him that he could have thrown like throwing knives at these brave public servants!
Looks like those four can now change their titles from RCMP to Nancy-boyz.
Well, cops taser children, why not a stapler wielding madman?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6468373/
Maybe it was Milton. I'd be scared of his red swingline too.
And besides, if he didn't get me with that, he'd set my place on fire.
As a Canadian, I'm embarrassed by what the Mounties did here. They should be charged with criminal negligence leading to death.
Such behavior begs the question, just what exactly are they mounting?
Pablo: I think charging them with murder would be more appropriate.
In the old days the cops would have given him a wood shampoo, but at least he'd probably still be alive afterwards.