So testified a constable in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as he explained why he deployed a taser five times within a 31-second time period on a combative man. The victim, a 40-year-old Russian, was behaving erratically at the airport, throwing luggage, and had picked up a stapler.Not an industrial stapler. An office stapler.
"At that moment when he picked up the stapler, I feared for the safety of the officers."
The man was then tasered, and fell to the floor. Four Mounties then grabbed him, and the was tasered four more times.
Then he died.
An autopsy found no evidence of drugs or alcohol.
Video (and more details) at the link.