We need civilian oversight of our police forces.

why do they have to resort to guns if tasers don't work? unless the suspect is armed, if it really comes to it, the police should just use nightsticks. A hit with a nightstick to the legs will stop anyone, but not kill them. I understand that sometimes people can be violient and police need to use force, but guns are just too much.

Justin, apparently he was holding a knife to his wife's throat. How easy would it have been to walk over to hit him with a "stick"? He regularly assaulted his wife and was violent. Should the police carry cookies and milk to try to win him over before shooting him?

I feel sorry for the wife and the daughter: the real victims. If you live by the sword you die by the sword and the world is a better place without him. At least he is off the streets and no longer a problem or a burden on the judicial system.

Good job to the VPD on this one.
Its really a thankless job, they put thier own lives in danger every day for us...and there are so many critics who don't know what they are talking about. I'm sure no cop wants to shoot someone, but when lives are at stake, its the only option. Again, good job, and thank you.

police said''he was holding a knife to his wifes throat''true/false police said'' taser ineffective''true/false police said ''refused to drop the knife ''true /false If any of these statements made by the police are false ,they are covering up a murder...

I'm a frequent critic of suspect, incompetent and downright corrupt police "work", which has become all too common, but in this case the Vancouver police performed admirably and they rid society of someone our justice system doesn't seem to have the stomach to deal with. Our legislators and the courts have failed to properly punish or otherwise sanction perpetrators of domestic violence. This sort of terrorism against (mostly) women and children should be severely dealt with as these wankers feel their behaviour is tacitly approved of each time the courts slap their twisted sadistic wrists.
SMBs

Why don't they use a tranquilizer gun instead of these tasers ? Could you imagine to outrage if animal control officers started to taser bears and cougars and dogs ?
Maybe a tranquilizer doesn't output enough violence ?

This story has me somewhat troubled, with the early reports. Man hold knife to wifes throat after she calls 911. the story jumps to tasering, was she still in danger at this point or was this a strange occurrence. If someone was holding a knife to my throat I would hope like hell someone didn't taser this person while I was in their clutches. This makes me think he was away from his wife. The shooting then came, they shot him multiple times, did he still have the knife to her throat or was he in the process of putting it down? I am very leery and see that complaints commission has been contacted. I don't think the daughter was in the room, but being present to have heard the commotion is truly a sad situation for her to have been in.

CLC are you suggesting that it would have been better for the police to have taken the knife from him, given him a stern warning and left his wife and daughter to deal with him after they left? Are you condoning violence against women, too? What is your point?

I don't condone the violence he has inflicked at all.I have known this man for over 40 years. They took a stapler from an immigrant by tasering him, no human can endure multiple jolts from that gun and live. What I am saying is I don't belive we have heard the entire story.If he was about to surrender, why shoot him?, could his body have been in a spasm as the muscles tend to do when tasered? could this have be misconstrued as an act of aggretion? what threat did he pose at this point? By opening fire on this man determined the outcome before the first trigger was pulled.