The Vancouver airport incident shocked many Canadian citizens. The incident involved Robert Dziekanski, a Polish man who was trying to communicate with his mother who was somewhere in the airport. Flustered and exhausted, Dziekanski began to show his anger by throwing articles around such as a chair and a laptop. Once his actions were called to the attention of the security, there was a language barrier which caused even greater frustration. The guards, for some ridiculous reason decided that it was best to use a taser to "solve their problem". Dziekanski received several shocks from the gun and unfortunately, died later on that day. Video of the incident with commentary
I believe that this is both appaling and embarassing for the Vancouver airport and their security staff. One has to question the actions of the security gaurds involved and why they resorted to such treatment, as opposed to finding a different solution. This could have resulted in a much better way, rather than have an innocent man die.
At no point was there an apparent threat to the citizens within the airport, so why use such harsh force against an innocent man? What the right thing to do would have been to get an interpretor within the airport to come and try to counsole Mr. Dziekanski. Although not everyone would throw chairs or lap tops, I believe it is safe to say that if a majority of Canadians put themselves in Dziekanski's place, that they would have been irritated if a bunch of gaurds approached them and started questioning and harassing them, especially if you had been in an airport for ten hours and could not understand a word they were saying.Paul Pritchard's point of view
An elderly man roaming around the wrong section of the terminal, speaking another language sent security in with a biased opinion. They went into the situation believing it to be someone who might be a terrorist/ pose a bug threat to the citizens in the building. That is why they used a taser gun. However, if Dziekanski was not using any force against the secutiry guasrds themselves why did they have to use a taser gun. I believe that security will have to come
up with better responses to scenarios because it is obvious that this one did not prove to be successful.
An elderly man roaming around the wrong section of the terminal, speaking another language sent security in with a biased opinion. They went into the situation believing it to be someone who might be a terrorist/ pose a bug threat to the citizens in the building. That is why they used a taser gun. However, if Dziekanski was not using any force against the secutiry guasrds themselves why did they have to use a taser gun. I believe that security will have to come
up with better responses to scenarios because it is obvious that this one did not prove to be successful. Also, the fact that this incident was caught on tape by a bystander has become an issue for the police and airport security. The gaurds prior claims stated that the only reason they applied force to him was because he was kicking and making "threatening" movements towards them. Fortunately,Paul Pritchard's tape recording showed the guards dishonesty and the situation is being questioned further.
Airport security, going too far in the wrong direction?
Unfortunately for Dziekanski, he was not able to find his mother that day. His mother has said that his death could have been avoided and that he died for no specific cause. A life could have been saved if it weren't for acting before taking the right step of thinking about what one should really do, as opposed to a frightening cowardly act against an innocent man .
Unfortunately for Dziekanski, he was not able to find his mother that day. His mother has said that his death could have been avoided and that he died for no specific cause. A life could have been saved if it weren't for acting before taking the right step of thinking about what one should really do, as opposed to a frightening cowardly act against an innocent man .
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