Yet again another taser has killed a man in Vancouver B.C. An RCMP resorted to using his taser after a man had jumped through a house window. The man had died on the way to a hospital, and was suspected to be the robber of a bank that had occurred earlier in the day. RCMP arrived at the house to find the man naked jumping through the window of a house that had reportedly had a woman in it. The RCMP had tried to subdue the man once they had gotten hold of him but he attempted to run back into the house. At this point they decided to use their tasers on him. This is the second time in the Vancouver area that this has happened. Last Monday, police tasered another mentally old 16 year old mother, they say they feared that she would hurt her young baby. Last year, Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski died at the Vancouver airport after four Mounties subdued him with a taser.
These incidents constantly cause people to raise the question of whether or not tasers are safe, and should be used. Personally I think that they are a good alternative to using many other weapons but I still think that police need to find another different weapon that can guarantee that the victim has no chance of death. I also think that police should use more discrimination when using their tasers, as at many times they may actually not need to use them.
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