A witness to the death of a man tasered by police at the Vancouver airport after acting erratically says she is full of pity for the stranger because he appeared unable to communicate with anyone during the melee that led to his death.
“I put myself in his shoes,” said Sima Ashrafina, who was at the airport to pick up her husband. “I can’t speak English. I am arrived in the wrong country, or for some reason I am so drunk, I am so medicated, or I am so drugged.
“For any reason, I lose my mind and then I start shouting and that’s what happens. It was a lack of communication.”
It does not appear that police responding to the Sunday morning disturbance were able to communicate with the unruly man, who shouted ‘Policia, policia’ – the Spanish word for police – at one point during the incident, which has prompted a renewed national debate over the police use of tasers.
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