30 hours after a mentally ill man was tasered in Nova Scotia while being booked at Dartmouth Correctional centre, he is dead. He went into medical distress after being tasered, (police administered first aid - read CPR) was taken to hospital, checked and released back to jail. 
Police are asking people not to jump to conclusions and wait until the medical examiner report is released. Hopefully an honest, unpressured, unthreatened pathologist who is given permission to do his job. Taser International has not been hesitant to sue coroners in the past in the US.  Hyde had been tasered before (2005) I’d try to flee too. Who wouldn’t? An investigation has been launched.
45 year old Howard Hyde is dead.
That is not jumping to a conclusion, that is a fact.
Mr. Hyde was a schizophrenic, he functioned on his meds, he went off them. The family called the police for help. Police had to have known. Police had to have known tasering someone who has been on psychotropic medication and is off it is not medically advised.
They had to know well a schizophrenic is in a full blown episode, confined spaces are the first place they want and need to get out of, even when that confined space is for their own safety.

We know from watching Robert Dziekanski die the RCMP ascertained Dziekanski begging for help is behavior they call extremely agitated, aggressive, combative, excited. 
Taser Company International’s term is excited delirium.

Police and politicians keep insisting Tasers save lives.
Let’s see the proof.
Show us the numbers.

I don’t know if a reassuring public pat on the head by para-military employees will work anymore.
A  mentally ill patient in BC was tasered yesterday, treated in hospital and released.
If this weapon is so safe, why are unarmed people tasered, receiving hospital level treatment, in critical condition, suffering permanent injury or dead?
This weapon is being used for compliance as first resort.

A 30 year old Chilliwack man, agitated after a vehicle collision, was  pepper-sprayed,  tasered and beaten. 
Police haven’t found the couple who went to their detachment and reported that collision.  He remains in extremely critical condition in hospital.  Police acknowledge he sustained a severe laceration to the head, doctors can’t explain why he is on deaths door.

Police aren’t trained to diagnosis, they are trained to keep themselves safe.
Drugs, alcohol, illness, shock, fear, pain, pre-exisiting medical conditions, hidden or obvious injuries…police departments have been sold quite the bill of goods with this weapon, which is sold as safe and is being used for compliance, and has been used punitively. 
So much even the RCMP admit it’s a weapon used on unarmed people, and witnesses have said they do so often; as a first resort.

If it’s use is taught and peddled as a useful tool for keeping people safe, show everyone the proof.
Everyone.
Lawyers, police and corrections, politicians, medical professionals, advocacy groups, the public. 
Not the spin from Taser International Company’s paid medical shills and lawyers.
Proof.
Show us the numbers of citizens and bystanders who have been protected, the number of citizen first responder lives saved.
The death toll is climbing.

The four RCMP officers who killed Robert Dziekanski have remained on the job, now we hear it’s possible they might face charges. Possible. might.
It’s taken five weeks to get to maybe.

“If there is culpability to be assessed, it will be done,” Day told reporters. “This is a very serious incident that has taken place, and there are a number of investigations that are going on to get to the bottom of it.”

I believe there are law enforcement and medical personnel across this country working to see these weapons banned or use severely curtailed, willing to look at changes in procedures, policies, scene communication and training; willing to admit Tasers are being used with an us/them mentality, being used in aggressive and punitive ways. Willing to stop buying into a weapon company sales pitch and the pseudo-science that sells it’s product and wins law suits.  Willingly to re-evaluate restraint techniques, negoitiation, inter-agency and public co-operation, willing to save lives, not take them.

I believe there are law enforcement and correctional officers as sickened and disgusted as every person who watch Robert Dziekanski die.  They haven’t been heard in the past, it’s any-one’s guess whether they’ll be listened to now.