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I have sent the following letter to my Local MP and The Minister of Public safety Stockwell Day.

Today is a sad day for me and my fellow Canadians. After watching video of the four RCMP officers responding to the disturbance at Vancouver Airport, I can't help but be disgusted with their actions. While I would not consider myself an expert in handling situations such as this, it is clear from the video that the RCMP officers made no attempt to communicate with Robert Dziekanski before shooting him with Taser and ultimately killing him. In my mind Canadians have held the RCMP and our local police forces to high standards, however to me it seems that they are no longer meeting these standards.

I am not against police officers using Tasers when they are used in place of deadly force. However, I do not believe that if the RCMP officers had had only sidearms available to them that they would have shot Robert Dziekanski within 25 seconds of their arrival. If police officers cannot learn to better evaluate which situations would warrant the use of a Taser, then a moratorium should be placed on their use, and better protocols and "rules of engagement" should be drafted.

This is the second incident in many months where a Canadian police agency has acted in an inappropriate manner. The previous one was when Quebec Provincial Police attempted to instigate a riot at the Montebello summit by placing officers in the crowed dressed as protestors.

I hope that you and your fellow MPs are taking note that we as Canadians will not tolerate incidents like these. We would like to live in a society where the police are there to serve and protect us and anyone visiting our country. We do not want to live in a society where thugs like these are allowed to become police officers. Thugs who respond to situations with deadly force without reason, or attempt to turn a peaceful demonstration into a riot so that they can make arrests.

Sincerely,
Andrew McKay

I have also sent a letter to the RCMP along with copies of the previous letter

In response to the incident at Vancouver Airport in which four RCMP officers killed Robert Dziekanski, I have sent the following letters to my local M.P. Anita Neville, and The Minister of Public Safety M.P. Stockwell Day. I am truly disappointed in the actions of these four officers, and I hope that they will be disciplined. There is no excuse for the extremely unprofessional way that they acted. I hope that in the future RCMP officers will be better trained and equipped to handle a situation such as this without the use of such excessive force.

Sincerely,
Andrew McKay

I hope that some of my fellow Canadians will do the same, to show our politicians that incidents like this will not be tolerated.