Another low-life scumbag.
They should have shot him dead.

WHEN will police learn that tazers should never be used!!!!!1!!!
amirite?

wait, you say the tazers worked? oh.

Certainly sounds like they took more than 30 secs to assess the situation before using the taser unlike the 4 RCMP officers in the Vancouver Airport tasering death. Wonder if he had a high powered stapler in the other hand.

where is the video to prove they did as they said?

I support the police, right or wrong. If they make a mistake every now and then in their efforts to provide us with a safe environment, so be it.

I believe that our police forces are not getting the respect that should be shown them. If a police officer asks you to do something, think of it as an order, and comply. It is never the police officer's intent to hurt or kill an individual during any interaction, but the training they receive makes them completely capable to doing so.

So spread the word - Respect our police, and nobody gets hurt!

It's as simple as that.

Moses, your comments are innapropriate.

'Moses, your comments are innapropriate'

Yet another wannabe tough-guy gangsta holding a woman hostage with a knife?

Bang - you're out of the game.

Next time don't hold women hostage with knives.

And before you croak, tell your gangsta buddies.

Hmmmmmmm, I always thought dead people don't talk, or complain

Tazer or no tazer? Still the question.
With tazer you may or may not die...
with a 9 MM handgun...death is pretty much a given. Both of which I think are a last resort...
If people did as the police asked neither would have to be used........
or am I way to realistic?

Common sense and compliance usually comes from law abiding citizens. To expect the same from druggies, drunks, punks, theives, etc., is expecting a bit much. In any event these people were arrested and incarcerated before they ever invented the tazer, and very few were shot dead.

What this means is that the Police are using the tazers because they are effective, and convenient, however that does not make it right, and it is up to our less than impressive politicians to see that they discontinue using this type of weapon.,

Someone would have to be brain dead to believe cop coverup narratives after the YVR animals changed their stories.

The dude complied by dropping the knife. We are expected to believe that he refused to open his hand. I suspect the cops used the tazer with the intent of inducing human-sheep to accept any cover-story they concocted.

Tazers are not used as a last resort; cops use them because they don't want to use the same physical force that cops have been using for hundreds of years. Hairspray should be deemed standard cop product, because they are motivated by a desire to keep their hair unmessed.

BTW, some dummy said that cops create a safe environment. Look: cops take 12 minutes to attend a Major Crime scene, and another 5-10 minutes to contact crime victims. If you doubt that cops do NOT provide a protective service, then I can assure you that you cannot deny the fact that since the founding of Canada, no sued cop has EVER admitted that a duty of care exists between them and us. So if they have no protective duty, then what do they do? Just enough to maintain fictions necessary to ensure that they are overpaid and under worked until they put in their 25 years so they can enjoy another 20 years of unearned pensions, at the expense of the morons who defend their sloth and indulge their jeopardization of the public.

Think of cops, as you think of termites.

For a couple of you on this site it seems that no matter what the police do, it is wrong. If they use their tasers, they shouldn't have. If they shoot someone, they should have used the taser. If they show up, it's because the donut shop is closed. Wah wah! I wouldn't want their job no matter how well they're paid. No matter what they do, somone has a gripe. Maybe some of you that think you have all of the answers should join up. You seem to believe that the standards are low enough now.

Perhaps there were not so many criminals shot dead before tasers because there were not so many people who thought they could hold the police at bay, or resist arrest. Maybe there were less drug crazed idiots out there.
I don't know about appropriate or not but i would be all for the cops shooting such a person dead. If you hold someone at knife point you have crossed the line big time. I dont need to hear the reasons or excuses, you are just soooo far past acceptable behaviour i cease to feel for you.
As for your comments Truth, you dont know anything about what (or who) you are talking about. Too bad you dont let that stop you. Aside from inflammatory rhetoric you dont really have anything to add to the subject. If you think being a cop is easy (underworked, overpaid, all that) then you ought to apply for the job. I bet you wouldnt last a week.
Think of cops as you would heroes, because thats what most of them are. Next time you cop haters need help, try calling your mamas instead of the police. At least that way you wont be so hypocritical.

Wow, caranmacil! Well said. ANd truth, why dont u just go away......

Yes you are right caranmacil. To a point.
Yes there are a lot of hero cops out there and yes they have a tough job. Having said that there are definitely some folks out there in uniform who have no business holding a job with the RCMP or any other police force. They are the Rambo types. The gutless ones. You know the ones... It has been all over the news in the past few years with increasing regularity. The ones that tazer poor immigrants in airports. The ones that shoot and check to see what they hit and if it can be made to look legal.

These turkeys are giving the rest a very bad name and worse they are eroding what trust the public has in it's police and justice system. Once that trust is gone it will be a very long time before it is restored if at all. I don't think to many people have a problem with cops taking a tough approach with real criminals but polish immigrants and drunks in Vanderhoof don't pose to much of a threat to trained RCMP officers.

People holding women hostage with knives is unacceptable and they have crossed a line. At that point they pose a definite threat to the woman and the cops. If they do not comply with an order to show their open hands then they can expect that the police will use what ever force is necessary to bring the situation under control. We expect them to use no more force than is necessary to bring the individual under control. Unless you are there at the scene you will just have to put a little faith in the RCMP to use what ever force is appropriate to bring the situation under control.

And yes there are some cop haters out there but their are also a lot of law abiding folks out there that are really starting to wonder what is happening to law enforcement. They are starting to wonder if they are going to get tazered next time the get pulled over for a traffic violation.

I still think it is wrong to use a tazer against such an obvious low life for the simple reason that it normalizes the use of this vary dangerous and unpredictable device against everyone else in society by the very fact it is a tool they can deploy.

A tazer is an execution by electrocution with out a trail for the unlucky person that is offed without justice. We have laws for everything today... so we are all not in compliance with one law or another justifying execution by electrocution from a badge that doesn't like you and gives the only version of events after the fact....

I say you hold a person hostage with a knife, then expect to be shot. Maybe non lethal in the hand first to see if the threat has anything in it... if it comes to that... a lawful use of a gun is still preferable to a lawful use of a tazer weapon that could then be justified as a benign tool to use on anyone in society for compliance.

I still think we only got one biased side of the story, but that said who cares what the other side of the story is when a person holds a hostage with a knife.

For a lot of people on this site its a place where they can insult others for their opinion and get away with it. It is getting tiring.

Tazers are not a "man's" weapon. But tazers were the answer to get females into the squad cars and on to the action scene. If women stay in the office, the Tazer could be retired. The Tazer levels the physical barriers, just like mace, so the little people can step into the "big" shoes. Remember when some committee decided years ago that the police should have a women quota?

Take away the Tazer, and ask the police to step into the Fight Night Octagon like some people believe they should, can't be done or at least not until the police can fill the ranks with a new a physical entrance exam.

Taxpayers are not going to be willing to pay to equip every lightweight "wanabee" police officer with a 300 pound goon to replace the Tazers.

The Tazer is a politicial quota target god send for the police. Can't turn back the clock now and have the little people getting their faces bashed in.

Brutal assessment Yama, but true to a point. I still don't think it justifies the use of a tazer. Its not a chicken and an egg kind of thing... the tazer could be removed and if the quota recipient didn't like it they can find other more rewarding work is how it should be. If the quota doesn't work remove it IMO... a free enterprise society of equal opportunity doesn't use quota's.

So Yama, now your going on record that women shouldn't be police officers. Your comments reflect someone who is living in the dark ages.

You all have to remember that over the past 25 years more weapons, knives, guns ect are out in the public and the people who are willing to use them have incrested. Tasers, mace, pepper spray are products designed to replace the use of the guns the police carry. To all who complain maybe you should walk a mile in their shoes.

Some of you here have it figured out, some don't. He put down the knife, good for him it probably kept him from dieing. But where was he? Why couldn't the police see his other hand? What other weapons were near him or accessible to him? Where was the knife he put down? What about his hostage? Where was she? Was she safe? All questions that I am sure the police had to think about before acting as I see it with appropriate means. Would you want to get into a physical fight with a guy that may have another knife in his other hand? I wouldn't.
Yes what happened ant YVR was sad and disturbing but this is completely different. He spoke English, he threatened to kill an innocent person and the police.
Are we to assume that he all of sudden had a change of heart and decided that the police were his friends. I'm willing to bet he didn't unlock his door and invite them in!! It makes me laugh when I see people bashing the police for doing a good job...then another Meyerthorpe comes along and we all think, jeez those guys were just trying to their jobs. Yeah who remembers what they were doing when they heard about Meyerthorpe?
Good work to the boys and girls in blue...another safe ending to a bad situation with NO ONE hurt!

Some of you here have it figured out, some don't. He put down the knife, good for him it probably kept him from dieing. But where was he? Why couldn't the police see his other hand? What other weapons were near him or accessible to him? Where was the knife he put down? What about his hostage? Where was she? Was she safe? All questions that I am sure the police had to think about before acting as I see it with appropriate means. Would you want to get into a physical fight with a guy that may have another knife in his other hand? I wouldn't.
Yes what happened ant YVR was sad and disturbing but this is completely different. He spoke English, he threatened to kill an innocent person and the police.
Are we to assume that he all of sudden had a change of heart and decided that the police were his friends. I'm willing to bet he didn't unlock his door and invite them in!! It makes me laugh when I see people bashing the police for doing a good job...then another Meyerthorpe comes along and we all think, jeez those guys were just trying to their jobs. Yeah who remembers what they were doing when they heard about Meyerthorpe?
Good work to the boys and girls in blue...another safe ending to a bad situation with NO ONE hurt!

any one that suggests that citizens should consider a directive from a peace officer as an order is a sheeple.
You are being groomed as a compliant chattel of the NWO.

Think I am wrong or nuts, Google 911 revisited or Alex Jones and zietgeist.