hmmmm and the followup to the first story is.... wait for it
The report by forensic pathologist Charles Lee, of Vancouver General Hospital, listed the principal cause of death as "sudden death during restraint", with a contributory factor of "chronic alcoholism".[37]
story 2 is supposed to be indicative of what? the boy wanted to think of himself as a martyr?
Video and eyewitness accounts
Part of the event is recorded in a six-minute cell phone video recorded by another student. The video has been widely disseminated online, and an edited version is available on the Daily Bruin site. Tabatabainejad is first heard (though not seen) repeatedly shouting "Don't touch me!" to the officers. Over the course of the video, he is stunned multiple times, while officers repeatedly order him to stand up and stop fighting, and threaten to administer further stuns. Tabatabainejad repeatedly states that he is not fighting and that he will leave the premises. He shouts that he has a medical condition,[12] and shouts "Here's your PATRIOT Act! Here's your *expletive deleted*ing abuse of power!" Witnesses say that when it was clear none of the other students were going to help him, Tabatabainejad said "Am I the only martyr?"[13] According to one witness, "[Tabatabainejad was] no possible danger to any of the police. [He was] getting shocked and Tasered as he was handcuffed."[4] Bystanders can be heard demanding the officers' names and badge numbers, and shouting for them to stop using the Taser on Tabatabainejad.[4]
At one point, the officers told the crowd to stand back and threatened to tase anyone who approached too closely.[12] A female student said that the officers threatened to tase her when she asked an officer for his name and badge number.[12] According to an ACLU attorney, such a threat of force in response to a badge number request constitutes illegal assault.[4] At 6:36 in the video, an officer tells a male student, "Get back over there or you’re going to get tased, too."[4][6] The student, wearing a white t-shirt in the video, can be seen "using intense body language" and "talking heatedly and with raised [voice]" prior to being confronted.[6] The officer first tells the student to "back up" before threatening tasing.[6]
A press release issued by the UCPD claims that the officers "asked Tabatabainejad to leave the premises multiple times", and that Tabatabainejad refused to leave.[8] Witnesses dispute this account, saying that Tabatabainejad had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, whereupon Tabatabainejad told the officer several times to let go.[14]
Tabatabainejad has said through his lawyers that he was stunned five times,[5] which is the count reported in the media immediately after the incident.[15][10][16][17] The reported count was reduced to three after the release of the independent report.[18]
The independent report clarifies:
It is our understanding that Tabatabainejad remembers being tased on at least four or five occasions. Officer 2 [Durden] notes at the conclusion of his initial report that "it’s possible that I may have tased Tabatabainejad a 4th time, but I am unsure at which time this may have occurred." Various media accounts following the incident reported the common assumption from several students that Tabatabainejad "was hit with a Taser five times when he did not leave." Accordingly, we cannot rule out the possibility that Tabatabainejad was tased more than the three discrete times that we have identified and confirmed. Still, we note that the internal recording system in the X26 Taser is considered by most law enforcement personnel to be reliable, and we have no reason to believe that its record of three Taser firings is inaccurate.[6]
christ he walked home.
story 3
This is the third incident involving a Taser that ASIRT has been called in to investigate. On Nov. 2, 2008, Cranbrook resident Gordon Walker Bowe died in police custody in Calgary after a Taser was used, though it may not have made contact with him. Less than a week before that, Trevor Grimolfson, 38, died in Edmonton after he was Tasered twice following a disturbance at a pawnshop.
On Aug. 10, 2006, Jason Doan, 28, of Red Deer was jolted three times by a Taser as RCMP officers tried to subdue him. He died three weeks later in hospital after going into cardiac arrest following the Taser deployments.
boy one they aren't sure he got zapped boy 2 he dies 3 weeks later of cardiac arrest
can't find a cause of death on the lead in that story can you?
was that an attempt to qualify? or quantify? autopsy results might help, well not help your cause but help to decide whats going on. in the third story the dead guy was "known to the police" and his dad was a local politician who seemed to not go screaming "oh no they killed my kid." i wonder why. i have suspicions
