Man Police Dept: And for more than a year, they chose not to correct those fibs, according to Globe And Mail. Thomas Braidwood, who chaired an inquiry into Mr. Dziekanski's death, is a wise man. Police forces around Canada would do well to mark his words down where all can see them. “I can't help but think if the taser was not there they perhaps would have reverted to their former skills,” the retired B.C. appeal-court judge said on Friday, of the four officers whose shameful and needless reliance on brute force ended Mr. Dziekanski's life at the Vancouver International Airport on Oct. 14, 2007. “When the conducted energy weapon the taser was not available, you had one RCMP officer police a whole community without any problem, using the skills they had been taught.” And afterward, they told fibs about what happened. He was violently resisting, they said. Ridiculous, as anyone can see on the videotape. There were just two taser blasts. No, five. The killing of Mr. Dziekanski is thus an archetypal lesson, not only for the RCMP but for all police forces in Canada, in the dangers of high-tech weaponry. As
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