'Nobody Deserves To Die That Way'
26/07/2008 06:34
Dad says of teen
hit with
TaserMichael Langan, the teenager who died after police zapped him with a Taser, may have been a high-school dropout who wandered the streets of Winnipeg's inner-city core, but he didn't deserve to die like that, his father says.
"Nobody deserves to die that way, no matter how many problems you had," Brian Minchin told CBC News on Thursday.
Minchin is still struggling to cope with his 17-year-old son's death Tuesday following an altercation with police officers in a back lane in the city's core.
Police say they pursued the teen into a back lane after reports of a smashed window on a Lexus, then zapped him with a stun gun when he refused to drop his knife.
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SINC SAYS:
When will government act and ban these offensive weapons? Far from subduing people, they kill far too many.