Piotr Ogrodzinski駐カナダ・ポーランド大使はAFPの取材に対し、「事件に衝撃を受けた。警官のとった行動は問題の起きた状況で 不適切だった可能性がある」と述べた。同大使は事件の経緯について調査結果を開示するようカナダ政府に正式に申し入れ、 カナダの警察苦情処理委員会の関係者とも面会したという。
The U.N. Committee Against Torture singled out Tasers at the end of a conference in Geneva, expressing concern that the most popular model caused so much pain that use of it “constituted a form of torture.”
Amnesty International recently called for more intensive training programs, a position shared by Taser International but perhaps more easily said than done for busy law enforcement
agencies. The rights group was reacting to another Taser incident in Vancouver several weeks ago that was captured in a disturbing video clip. A Polish man, apparently in a volatile state, was subdued at a Vancouver airport using the weapon. Later, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Taser International analyzed the video of the “tragic incident” and said that the man’s “continuing struggle is proof that the TASER device was not the cause of his death.” The company has yet to admit that any death anywhere was caused by its products. But that didn’t stop some 1,000 people from protesting on Saturday in Vancouver, just as the more recent death after a Taser shot was announced there — the third in Canada in six weeks. Similar protests have yet to emerge in the United States, even as similar cases pile up here. The Associated Press counted three deadly incidents last week. As bad news about Tasers seems to be reaching a fever pitch, the company is running a genuinely weird ad campaign on the front page of its Web site starring Santa Claus (”What does Santa bring you when YOU have been GOOD but the WORLD is getting BAD?”), a poker star hosting a Taser-sponsored tournament (top prize: two tickets to Playboy’s Ninth Annual Super Saturday Night Party), and a generic mom, who oddly suggests that a consumer version of the Taser is “there when I can’t be.” http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/un-torture-panel-singles-out-tasers/index.html?hp