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Kenneth Oliver, 45, died August 15th in Miami after reportedly being Tasered four times by Miami police. His death will go unnoticed by most, but he is at least the 60th person to die in similar fashion since Robert Dziekanski's death at the Vancouver Airport last October. Robert Dziekanski was at least the 301st person in North America to die after being shocked by the Taser's 50,000 volt output. The list of subsequent similar fatalities, which includes five more Canadians, appears below:
302. October 14, 2007: Donald Clark Grant, 54, Asheville, North Carolina
303. October 17, 2007: Quilem Registre, 39, Montreal, Quebec
304. November 1, 2007: Seldon Deshotels, 56, Lake Charles, Louisiana
305. November 2, 2007: Stefan McMinn, 44, Hendersonville, North Carolina
306. November 7, 2007: Roger Brown, 40, Miami, Florida
307. November 16, 2007: Paul Carlock, 57, Springfield, Illinois
308. November 18, 2007: Jesse Saenz, 20, Raton, New Mexico
309. November 18, 2007: Jarrel Gray, 20, Frederick, Maryland
310. November 18, 2007: Christian Allen, 21, Springfield, Florida
311. November 20, 2007: Conrad Lowman, Jacksonville, Florida
312. November 22, 2007: Howard Hyde, 45, Halifax, Nova Scotia
313. November 24, 2007: Robert Knipstrom, 36, Chilliwack, British Columbia
314. November 29, 2007: Ashley R. Stephens, 28, Ocala, Florida
315. November 30, 2007: Cesar Silva, 32, Los Angeles, California
316. December 10, 2007: Leroy Patterson Jr., 41, Walton County, Georgia
317. January 2, 2008: Brandon Smiley, 27, Mobile, Alabama
318. January 9, 2008: Otis C. Anderson, 36, Fayetteville, North Carolina
319. January 11, 2008: Xavier Jones, 29, Coral Gables, Florida
320. January 14, 2008: Ryan Rich, 33, Las Vegas, Nevada
321. January 15, 2008: Mark Backlund, 29, New Brighton, Minnesota
322. January 17, 2008: Baron Scooter Collins, 21, Winnfield, Louisiana
323. January 18, 2008: Daniel Hanrahan, 44, Staten Island, New York
324. February 3, 2008: Louis Cryer, 32, Port Arthur, Texas
325. February 3, 2008: Joseph Davis, 50, Brandon, Mississippi
326. February 7, 2008: Richard Earl Abston, 53, Merced, California
327. February 19, 2008: Garrett Sean Farn, 41, Bakersfield, California
328. February 26, 2008: Barron Harvey Davis, 44, Mayes County, Oklahoma
329. March 4, 2008: Christopher Jackson, 37, Clay, New York
330. March 6, 2008: Javier Aguilar, 46, Roswell, New Mexico
331. March 18, 2008: Roberto Gonzalez, 24, Chicago, Illinois
332. March 20, 2008: Darryl Wayne Turner, 17, Charlotte, North Carolina
333. March 21, 2008: James Garland, 41, Deerfield Beach, Florida
334. March 29, 2008: Henry Bryant, 35, Indianapolis, Indiana
335. March 30, 2008: Walter Edward Haake Jr., 59, Topeka, Kansas
336. April 2, 2008: Jason Jesus Gomez, 35, Santa Ana, California
337. April 6, 2008: Yvelt Ocean, 31, New Kent County, Virginia
338. April 22, 2008: Uriah Samson Dach, 26, Richmond, California
339. April 24, 2008: Kevin Piskura, 24, Cincinnati, Ohio
340. April 24, 2008: Dewayne Chatt, 39, Memphis, Tennessee
341. April 27, 2008: Paul Thompson, Greensboro, North Carolina
342. April 28, 2008: Jermaine Ward, 28, Jackson, Tennessee
343. May 4, 2008: Joe Kubat, 21, St. Paul, Minnesota
344. May 6, 2008: James S. Wilson, 22, West Alton, Missouri
345. May 28, 2008: Ricardo Manuel Abrahams, 44, Woodland, California
346. May 31, 2008: Robert Ingram, 27, Raceland, Louisiana
347. June 5, 2008: Willie Maye, 43, Birmingham, Alabama
348. June 6, 2008: Donovan Graham, 35, Meridien, Connecticut
349. June 8, 2008: Tony Curtis Bradway, 26, New Yotk, New York
350. June 22, 2008: Jeffrey Marreel, 36, Norfolk, Ontario
351. June 25, 2008: Ernest Graves, 29, Rockford, Illinois
352. June 27, 2008: Nicholas Cody, 27, Dothan, Alabama
353. July 2, 2008: Isaac Bass, 34, Louisville, Kentucky
354. July 8, 2008: Samuel DeBoise, 29, St. Louis, Missouri
355. July 22, 2008: Michael Langan, 17, Winnipeg, Manitoba
356. July 27, 2008: Anthony Davidson, 29, Statesville, North Carolina
357. August 4, 2008: Jerry Jones, 45, Orange, Texas
358. August 5, 2008: Andre Thomas, 37, Swissvale, Pennsylvania
359. August 7, 2008: Lawrence Rosenthal, 54, Hemet, California
360. August 10, 1008: Kiethedric Hines, 31, Rockford, Illinois
361. August 15, 2008: Kenneth Oliver, 45, Miami, Florida
The first week of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games is over and Sweden has handed back more medals than Canada has won. Canada, with its vaunted "Own the Podium" strategy, has exactly zero medals to its credit thus far, prompting much hand-wringing among the chattering classes. What's the big deal? After all, the Olympics are nothing but a jingoistic orgy of government and corporate spending where sporting achievement is almost an afterthought...Good for the athletes for training and trying hard, but there are certainly more important things to worry about.
